Bluefield College will present an art exhibit featuring the watercolors of regional artist Aili Wang, May 9-August 2.
The exhibit, open and free to the public, will show in BC’s Art Gallery on the first floor of Lansdell Hall, Monday through Saturday, May 9-August 2, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.
Wang is a graduate of Radford University, where she earned a master’s degree in fine arts, concentrating in watercolor landscape painting. She received her bachelor’s degree in art from Yangzhou University in China.
“Her watercolors are filled with vibrant colors and the textures of nature,” said Walter Shroyer, head of the BC Art Department. “As a landscape painter, her work is about the vivacious colors and the relationship between familiar forms and nature.”
Enamored and inspired by the beautiful water scenery of the New River Valley while a student at Radford, Wang’s watercolors feature brilliant colors and familiar forms of nature. Her work has earned a variety of awards and has been accepted into many art competitions and exhibits, including the 2010 Virginia Watercolor Society Exhibition.
“The process of landscape painting is an exciting moment of contemplative and spiritual understanding,” said Wang, “one in which I wish the viewers to see what I see and feel what I feel — the celebration of a magical world.”
Wang is a member of the Virginia Watercolor Society and has also worked as an instructor of art in China. Her Bluefield College exhibit, May 9-August 2, is her third solo exhibition in the past year.