Yanqing Pei
Yanqing Pei works with the idea that everything exists as one simultaneously while being connected to something else independently in her paintings. Her artwork explores, through the observation and perception of the dynamic relationships between individuals and the relationship between subject and object, a certain chaotic and intimate symbiotic relationship between humans and their surrounding environment with the focus on nature. In meditative scenes, the relationships between beings constantly change, intertwined and interdependent. Pei has also been working on a new series of abstract landscape paintings shaped into being with Chinese ideograms. These paintings capture the imaginations of poetic spaces derived from narrative contexts composed of Chinese ideographic characters. Pei’s pictorial vision is a chaotic yet harmonious representation of human communication, both with each other and the world around us.
Pei graduated with her BFA and MFA in Chinese Painting in 2014 and 2017, from China Academy of Art, and her MFA in Painting and Drawing in 2021, from Pratt Institute. Pei's work has been exhibited in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Dunkirk and New York. She is currently working and living in Brooklyn, New York.
