Melting Point - Ocean Wang

This exhibition is held from 17th January to 2nd February 2015 at Y2ARTS.

"Melting point" is the first solo exhibition by Ocean Wang. You can read a synopsis of the exhibition here on Alist and Y2Arts website.

Ocean Wang is a very good figurative painter. If you have seen her earlier blue porcelain or other figurative works, they are excellent. In this series, she tries to capture her memories in a fluid substance of her memories. Each little snippet of memory is excellently painted. But I feel that her attempt of hyper realism/ realistic painting of the fluid falls quite flat. The fluid looks like fluid if you stand more the 3-5 metres from the painting, any nearer like doesn't look good. The concept of the painting is also a bit too simple and obvious. If i were the gallerist I would have brutally told her that her water isn't good and that she should work on it more before putting it out. And I have no doubt that she will be able to do it, given her technical excellence. And if she can't do the water, she could have done some abstract brush strokes, but she isn't an abstract artist and it's not easy to be an abstract artist either. She should hang with some good abstract artists and talk to some of the conceptual guys too.  I think she sold two paintings on the opening day, the two were vertical pieces which emphasised the water. And the narrower canvas didn't show the problem she had coping with the negative space and placement of the small objects of her memory.

You can sense the disappointment here, only because you know that she can do much better.

Overflow

Roar of Rushing Water

Endless Travelling

Points for collectors: Not sure. Maybe not this series. But definitely one to watch.