Liang yuanwei biography of williams
Liang yuanwei biography of williams college...
Biography
Born in 1977 in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, Liang Yuanwei came to Beijing with her parents
when she was young and was educated there, graduating from the Design Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Liang yuanwei biography of williams
Liang was a reluctant student of design - her father would not permit her to study Fine Arts, fearing the unpredictable and financially precarious life of the artist. Liang Yuanwei acknowledges a number of artists who have been significant to her work as she taught herself to paint, including sculptor Eva Hesse and painters Luc Tuymans, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter.
Some of her teachers at the Central Academy of Fine Arts returned to China from Berlin in 1995, bringing with them new ideas about art, and introducing her to the work of Joseph Beuys. This informed Liang’s developing practice as an installation artist interested in working with found objects and non-art materials.
She realised that the ideas underpinning her work were as important as the materials