12/08/2015
Sa Peng
Website: www.pengsa.co
Oil painting is the primary language I speak. Through my paintings, I tell my own stories. This language is subconscious and intuitive, yet it still manages to articulate the state of my surroundings. My work in the beginning, was inspired by Impressionism by artists including Manet,Monet,Degas, Van Gogh, Valadon and more, Then I became interested in the work of Mattisee,Bacon, Freud, de Kooning, Alex Katz, etc. In my paintings, I create my view of worlds that are reflections of my reality. I draw on my personal memories, emotions, and experiences; transferring them on flat canvases, playing with brushstrokes, colors and compositions. I treat the figures in my compositions as residents in my imaginary worlds and allow them to develop organically on their own. This process allows me to create a work free of any predetermined expectations, with the final product an unexpected visual expression of my stream of consciousness. Throughout the creative process, my sole intent is to capture an expansive environment where my imagination and self-reflections are preserved and nurtured. For certain pieces, such as “Seven Deadly Sins”, I consciously elect to enlarge figure’s size, so that the viewers feel they are seeing some strong human bodies play around in a frontal plane rather than observing them from afar. My Drawing and Printmaking primarily serve as studies for my paintings. My painting focuses on the human body, painted in various poses and movements, often surrounded by small objects that interest me.