Suling Wang

September 8 - October 22, 2005
540 West 26th Street

Press Release

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce the New York debut of Taiwanese artist Suling Wang. Her large-scale paintings and works on paper demonstrate an ambitious attempt to move toward a new abstraction, addressing concerns about identity and location as an artist.

Through the layering of an expansive vocabulary of marks and disparate visual elements, Wang produces dynamic compositions that achieve a synthesis of painting and drawing. The notion of time and memory is introduced by the layers and shifting planes of the painting's surface. Social, ecological and geographical themes evident in Wang's paintings are a personal response to the changing landscape and rapid industrialization of her native island, and to her own sense of uncertainty regarding her place within different cultural traditions.

At first glance, the paintings appear to represent a state of flux, as if environmental forces have continually eroded location. More localized forms begin to emerge and then fragment, disintegrate and mutate. These abstract forms allude to natural elements as well as calligraphic marks. The fluidity of line arranged and superimposed on subtle fields of color are contrasted by bold gestures of color. Organic, textual and architectonic, the paintings are elusive in origin and strangely rendered, appearing like dislocated artifacts, remnants of language or other cultural debris.

About the Artist

Suling Wang was born and grew up in rural Taiwan. She moved to London in 1993, receiving her B.A. from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London in 1997 and earning an M.A. in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 1999. She has since has participated in various group exhibitions throughout Europe and is currently in many major collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

For more information, please contact us at info@lehmannmaupin.com or (212) 255-2923.

Artists in this exhibition

• Suling Wang

Exhibition Works

Untitled, 2005 oil and acrylic on canvas 94.49 x 79.13 inches 240 x 201 cm LM8997


River Loops, 2005 oil and acrylic on canvas 78.74 x 72.83 inches 200 x 185 cm LM8994


Irrigation Plots, 2005 oil and acrylic on canvas 94.49 x 78.74 inches 240 x 200 cm LM8996


Erosion Mapping, 2005 oil and acrylic on canvas 94.49 x 78.74 inches 240 x 200 cm LM8995


Converging Plateaus, 2005 oil and acrylic on canvas 102.36 x 174.02 inches 260 x 442 cm LM9019


Erosion Mapping (Liwu River), 2005 oil and acrylic on canvas 96.06 x 120.08 inches 244 x 305 cm LM9020


Cryptic Butterfly, 2005 oil and acrylic on canvas 108.66 x 91.73 inches 276 x 233 cm LM9021


Perennial Interchange, 2005 oil and acrylic on canvas 78.74 x 72.83 inches 200 x 185 cm LM9022


Untitled, 2005 acrylic and ink on paper 30.12 x 22.44 inches (paper) 76.5 x 57 cm 33.75 x 25.75 inches (framed) 85.7 x 65.4 cm LM9006


Untitled, 2005 acrylic and ink on paper 30.12 x 22.44 inches (paper) 76.5 x 57 cm 34.125 x 26.625 inches (framed) 86.7 x 67.6 cm LM9005