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Jingxiang Liang BIOGRAPHY
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School of Art and Design, Yunnan University Jingxiang
Liang is a versatile artist who draws inspiration from his hometown,
Kunming, in Yunnan Province, home of 25 ethnic groups.
Kunming‘s bright and sunny climate inspires Jingxiang’s use
of intense colors. His variety of themes include ethnic art, still life,
and floral. Jingxiang
Liang works in oil, acrylic and gouache, and as a fine artist and an
illustrator. His art works is in many public and private collections
in the United States,
Canada, Taiwan and China, which include the giant
mural paintings in
the Independence Branch Library of Philadelphia, the large-scale mural
in Wok, an upper scaled Restaurant
in Philadelphia, and a
series of ethnic art in gouache
and paintings in oil in area restaurants in Philadelphia. His
paintings were exhibited in numerous shows and
published both in the United
States and in China. He was recently invited to New Artists of China - the Louisville Free
Public Library/ Crane House Exhibit and gave a talk at Cressman Center
for the Visual Arts, the University of Louisville. He won the Best Art
Achievement Award at Huaguang Art Center, Philadelphia in 2000. As
an illustration artist, Jingxiang Liang was honored with the China
National Top Picture-book award for his paintings of plants and the
cover design of the book Complete Collection of Chinese Medicinal Herbs. Jingxiang
Liang has been an Art instructor at the School of Art and Design, Yunnan
University since 1997. He is Vice Chair of the Department of
Advertising Design. Between
1998 and 2000, he
was a visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum,
teaching and demonstrating Chinese brush paintings at summer camp and at various schools in New Jersey
and Philadelphia. Jingxiang received BA in Fine
Arts from the Southwest China Normal University in 1983
and later earned Certificate
in Art & Design
Teaching in Higher Education Program from Shanghai Tongji University. |