Art Gallery Reception & Artist Talk: Dr. Ian Wang

Join us for the Art Gallery Reception and Artist Talk for Dr. Ian Wang. Light refreshments will be served.

Literati painting in Chinese is 文人畫. It is emphasizes personal expression, emotion, and inner spirit over realistic depiction. It blends calligraphy, poetry, and seals.

As an artist, Dr. Wang loves painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Since 1998, Dr. Wang has been serving on the Board of Directors of the Spurlock Museum of UIUC. From Sept. 2006 to Oct. 2008 he served as the President of the Spurlock Museum Board of Trustees of UIUC. Since 2007 Dr. Wang has been a member of the American Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. For the academic year of 2009-10 Dr. Wang also served as an art curator of the Asian American Cultural Center of UIUC.

Dr. Wang writes art critics for local, national and international newspapers and magazines. He was an editorial committee member of the Spurlock Museum Magazine. From 2007 to 2020 Dr. Wang was an art columnist and has been writing monthly “Art = Life” columns for the Rantoul Press – An Edition of the News-Gazette’ Community Newspaper.

Dr. Wang won twice Champaign County Arts Council’s ACE award. In recent years Dr. Wang wrote and published 3 art books. Currently, Dr. Wang serves on the Board of Directors of the Spurlock Museum and the Champaign County History Museum.

Dr. Wang’s Artist Statement:
“For me, all my artwork, regardless if it is painting, drawing, sculpture or photography… whatever the medium or technique might be, is the language and expression of my personal and ideological views about the world surrounding us. In creating art, I try to share with people what I see as beautiful or as ugly. In other words, what is right and what is wrong. In a hope we appreciate the beautiful, so to promote the right and denounce the ugly, therefore to avoid the wrong."