About Chihung Yang

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Shihong Yang
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    "Life is very short. There isn't much time left for creation. Artists leave traces through creating artworks, and this is the artistic value of existence." - Yang Chi-Hung

    Yang Chi-Hung was born in Taiwan in 1957 and moved to the United States in 1979. Now living and working in New York, Yang Chi-Hung's works present an intense sense of the "painterly" style. Encompassing both the unrestrained Western spatial temporal reasoning and the Chinese style brushstrokes of traditional calligraphy and water-and-ink painting, Yang has gradually developed his unique style of lyrical abstraction. In his artistic career over the past four decades, Yang has been through several stylisti...

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