Ziping Wang
Drunken DandelionYear 2025
Medium Pigment print on Fine Art paper
Dimensions 40 x 50 cm.
Edition 50 + 5AP
Ziping Wang’s watercolor works document the ephemeral, ungraspable traces of nature—those fleeting moments and subtle transformations that define the world’s quiet dynamism. Her practice turns its gaze to the ever-shifting scenery beyond the window, where seasons unfurl in endless variation, and to the untethered journeys of nature’s elements: the seed adrift on a marvelous, uncharted path, the relentless crash of waves against the pebbles along the shore, and the weightless drift of jellyfish in undulating waters. These scenes, marked by unpredictability and impermanence, are not merely subjects for Wang; they are kindred spirits to the very process of watercolor itself.
Central to her practice is a profound reliance on coincidence and intuition—qualities that mirror nature’s own unscripted movements. Watercolor, with its fluidity and responsiveness, resists rigid control: pigment bleeds, water diffuses, and hues blend in unpredictable ways. For Wang, this inherent unpredictability is not a limitation but a collaborator. Her works emerge not from meticulous planning, but from an honest, unguarded conversation between the materiality of her medium—water, pigment, surface—and the quiet intuition that guides her hand.
In this dialogue, Wang surrenders to the medium’s inherent nature, just as nature surrenders to its own rhythms. The seed does not choose its landing; the wave does not calculate its crash; the jellyfish does not dictate its drift. Similarly, Wang allows water and pigment to move, react, and settle according to their own logic, while her intuition acts as a bridge—honoring the material’s voice while infusing the work with her deep attunement to nature’s elusiveness. The result is a body of work that is both a reflection of nature’s fleeting traces and a testament to the magic of unforced creation.
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Ziping Wang was born in 1995, in Shenyang, China, where she currently lives and works. She holds an MFA from the Pratt Institute, New York, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Drawing on the visual languages of advertising and illustration, Ziping Wang’s paintings are inspired by the overwhelming experience of living within an attention economy in the digital era. Visually seductive food packaging often serves as the starting point for Wang’s colorful configurations that combine a wide array of references and styles, ranging from cartoonish renderings of food, traditional Chinese and Japanese decorative motifs, Old Master still-lifes, geometrically patterned forms, and amorphous blobs of varying opacity. Wang’s paintings offer the mirage of a narrative, of a space in which dissociative fragments cohere, yet resist any further extraction of meaning. Paintings as decoys, that talk about something without talking about it, or by talking about something else. The subtext of Wang’s compositions, however, remain as unknowable to the viewer as the black box of the algorithmic machine.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include small talk, Unit London (London, 2024), Boundless Reverie: Chinese Savoir Faire and Contemporary, K11 MUSEA (Hong Kong, 2024), Traces of Love and Timeless Adventure, Galerie Marguo at K11 MUSEA (Hong Kong, 2023) The Loudest Silence, Peres Project (Seoul, 2022); Obsession, Indifference and Onion Skin, Galerie Marguo (Paris, 2021); The Other Landscape, Unit London (London, 2021); Sentimental Touch, Unit London (London, 2020); Platform 2020, Winston Wachter Fine Arts (New York, 2020); ASYAAF, Gallery LVS, (Seoul, 2020); Holiday project 1 Group Show, Inna Art Space (New York, 2020); The Garden of Forking Path, The Wall MINI Project space (Beijing, 2019); Daydreaming, J.Yuan Associates LLC (New York, 2019); Artificial Delicacy, Gessoisland Artspace (Shenyang, 2019); and 37.2, The Cool Hunter (Beijing, 2019). Wang was the recipient of the First Place prize of the 12th Annual Juried Exhibition at Archway Gallery (Houston, 2020). She recently created ‘Sweet tooth’ handbag, one of the five artistic collaborations in the 5th edition of the Artycapucines Collection by Louis Vuitton.
Her works are in the collections of the ICA Miami, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, X Museum, Beijing, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong and Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
Artists Ziping Wang
Name of the work Drunken Dandelion
Year 2025
Medium Pigment print on Fine Art paper
Edition 50 + 5AP
Dimensions 40 x 50 cm.
Signed Yes
Numbered Yes
Certificate of authenticity No
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