The first solo exhibition of Canada-based artist Yangyang Pan in New York, "Spring Fever" will feature Pan's most recent body of work -- a set of expressionist landscape-based oil paintings on canvas. This pairing of splashy, exuberant paintings celebrate Spring's arrival with emotionally-charged, abstract imagery. The vibrant canvases fuse a bi-cultural artistic sensibility seamlessly, seen in the elements of Asian brushwork and the all-over-style of Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollock.
The show title, "Spring Fever," refers to the common phrase that is used to describe the physical and psychological effects that arrive during a season often considered a time for rebirth and renewal. Spring is often associated with the hostility and hospitality of nature, a tease as the winter weather turns warm, accompanied by bursts of color as foliage blooms. Pan explores these elements of nature in her paintings, developing a visual, saturated language that feeds off of nature's impulsive energy. The result is a visual rhetoric of pure feeling and youthful exuberance. This is seen through her sharp, gestural yet painterly compositions that are rooted in her use of color.
