Jian Wang Chinese-American, b. 1958
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Sunrise in Wine Country, 2015Jian WangOil31.5" x 49.5"
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Toy on Table, 2018Jian WangOil20" x 20"
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Still Life with Watermelon, 2005Jian WangOil25.5" x 25.5"$7,000.00
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Shadow Study #1, 2004Jian WangOil13.5" x 37.5"$7,000.00
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Piled Rock Cliff in Distance, 2016Jian WangOil10" x 30"$4,900.00
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Summer Memory in Laguna Beach #1, 2016Jian WangOil10" x 20"$3,500.00
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Crystal Cove, 2015Jian WangOil25.25" x 37.25"
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Harmony in Gold & Silver #7, Moonlight, 2005Jian WangOil23.5" x 29.5"$7,000.00
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Moonlight on River, 2005Jian WangOil23.5" x 25.5"$5,000.00
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Summer in Grand Canyon, 2002Jian WangOil19.5" x 25.5"$5,000.00
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Sunrise in Rancho Santa Fe, 2001Jian WangOil32" x 41.5"
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Study of the Autumn Color, 1998Jian WangOil26" x 21"$5,000.00
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Harmony in Gold & Silver #2, 1998Jian WangOil22.5" x 24.25"$5,600.00
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Untitled Seascape, 1993Jian WangOil21" x 25"$5,000.00
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First Light, Grand Canyon in Blue, 2002Jian WangOil22.25" x 24.5"$5,000.00
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Sunset IJian WangOil22" x 28"$3,900.00
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Twilight, Grand Canyon, 2018Jian WangOil50" x 50"
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Summer, 2016Jian WangOil12" x 48"
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Beijing Girl- Xiaofi, 2009Jian WangOil30" x 30"$5,950.00
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Untitled Woman 2, 2011Jian WangOil25" x 25"$3,500.00
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KellyJian WangOil42" x 31"
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Girl in Pink, 2005Jian WangOil25.5" x 25.5"$7,000.00
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Wanna Wearing Yellow Necklace, 2015Jian WangOil31.5" x 16.5"$6,650.00
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Erin, 2001Jian WangOil26" x 26"
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Girl With NecklaceJian WangOil19.5 x 37.5
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Girl with Red PillowJian WangOil16" x 60"
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Captain's Hat, 2006Jian WangOil15.5" x 14.25"$4,800.00
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The Magic of a Child Mind, A Old Tin Toy and Tank, 2018Jian WangOil12" x 12"$3,200.00
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Wanna in Blue, 2015Jian WangOil37" x 25"
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Mondrian Cake, 2015Jian WangOil25" x 21"$6,900.00
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Fruit Stick, 2006Jian WangOil18.25" x 14.50"$4,750.00
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Chinese Girl - Xioaqlin #2, 2010Jian WangOil26" x 38"
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Still Life with Watermelon on a Plate, 2001Jian WangOil61.50" x 49.50"
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Cliff Laguna Beach II, 2015Jian WangOil19.50" x 17$2,950.00
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Man's Best Friend, 2015Jian WangOil21" x 21"
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Summer Memory, Body Boarding, 2015Jian WangOil19.5" x 17$4,500.00
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Summer Memory, Going Home, 2015Jian WangOil21" x 21"
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Summer Memory in Laguna Beach #3Jian WangOil60" x 20"
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Harvester, Laguna BeachJian WangOil35.5" x 24"
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Summer Memory, Yellow Board, 2015Jian WangOil25" x 37"
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Sunrise at American River, 2001Jian WangOil19.5" x 25.5"$5,000.00
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Morning Glow, 2005Jian WangOil on Board16.25" x 20.25"$4,600.00
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Morning Fog, 2000Jian WangOil on Board18" x 20"$1,600.00
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Sunlight Breaking Through Morning Fog, 2000Jian WangOil on board18" x 21"Sold
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Dana Point II, 2015Jian WangOil on rag board21.5" x 23.5"$3,650.00
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Dusk in Valley #1, 1999Jian WangOil on Museum Board29.25" x 38.25"$6,500.00
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Golden Autumn #1, 1998Jian WangOil on Board27.5" x 42"$5,500.00
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Golden Autumn #2, 1998Jian WangOil on Board27.5" x 42"$5,500.00
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Golden Autumn on Delta #2, 2004Jian WangOil18" x 36"$6,500.00
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Summer In Wine Country, 2002Jian WangOil25.5" x 31.5"
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Over Looking the Hudson River on Catskill Bridge, 2018Jian WangOil12" x 36"
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Laguna Beach I, 2015Jian WangOil10" x 14"$2,950.00
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Diana, 2002Jian WangConte21" x 17"$840.00
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Reading by the Fire, 1993Jian WangEtching10" x 6.5"$650.00
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American River Fair Oaks, 1989Jian WangEtching17" x 20.75"$1,400.00
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Down Highway, 2015Jian WangEtching18.5" x 14.25"$1,120.00
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Carmel Mission, 1988Jian WangEtching8.75" x 4.75"
For over 20 years Jian Wang has been serving bountiful helpings of color to audiences in the form of landscapes and still lifes rendered in vibrant oil paint. Deep orange, emerald green, and luscious lavender suffuse his sumptuous works, inviting us to revel in the inspirational beauty around us. Wang does not seek to capture the qualities of a specific object but rather the light and color harmonies of the piece. Spacial relationships, color, and light are paramount for the artist. A student of Wayne Thiebaud, and a confident colorist, Wang uses heavy paint and broad, colorful brushstrokes, to create vibrant works which continue to delight.
"My style involves tremendous physicality and emotion," he says. "I have a simple palette of eight colors, which I combine right on the canvas. I'm careful with my gestures; I carry many colors in a single brush stroke." Jian Wang
Jian Wang is a contemporary Chinese painter. Wang was born in Dalian in 1958. A child drawn to art, Wang learned the Russian social realism popular in China, but spent his own time studying Rembrandt and Michelangelo. At the age of twelve, the quality of his artwork earned him admission in the Dalian Youth Palace Arts, where he studied for six years.
Urged by his parents, Wang got his Bachelor of Science in Engineering at the Dalian Railway Institute, where he later taught for four years. It was here that he met Marjorie Francisco, a retired art teacher from Sacramento, who taught English at the Institute. Impressed by his artwork, Marjorie sponsored Wang's journey to the United States so he could have the freedom to develop his own artistic voice.
In 1986, Wang arrived in the United States. He took art courses at Sacramento City College from Fred Dalkey. At University of California, he learned from Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Roland Peterson and David Hallowell. Wang received his M.A. degree in 1994, at California State University, Sacramento, under the advisement of Oliver Jackson.
If Jian Wang is to claim a style, it lies in his approach to painting. Distinguished by his ability to reconfigure the elements of a composition to his own vision, he virtually sculpts the image using energetic brush strokes and thick, buttery oil paint. "My style involves tremendous physicality and emotion," he says. "I have a simple palette of eight colors, which I combine right on the canvas. I'm careful with my gestures; I carry many colors in a single brush stroke." His work, influenced significantly by realism with an impressionist inference, is influenced both by the landscape and by contemporary artists such as Fred Dalkey, Wayne Thiebaud and Oliver Jackson. "Every single painting is 90 percent experiment and 10 percent of what I've learned," he says. "I cannot guarantee that every painting will turn out, because I don't want to set up that much control. I have great admiration for historical painters who developed a style and yet, each piece remains individual." Long before he came to the United States to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts at California State University, Jian Wang dreamed of a life of painting. A child of the Cultural Revolution in China, he experienced limited opportunities for painting and exhibition, which led him to pursue the field of engineering. And yet, he did not lack background or training in art. Upon arrival in America, his work already exhibited a serious investment in the western conventions of drawing and painting. What he lacked, was the venue this country could provide.
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Holiday Group Exhibition
Gallery Reception: December 7th, 1-4 PM 7 - 31 Dec 2019Dawson Cole Fine Art Gallery is proud to present a Holiday Group Exhibition featuring works by Richard MacDonald, Jian Wang, Tom Betts, and Jim Lamb. Join us for a festive...Read more -
Beauty of Line & Form
Gallery Reception: August 3rd, 1-4PM 3 - 31 Aug 2019Since the time of Plato the concepts of Beauty and Truth have been wedded in Western thought. We intuitively know that there is a difference between a pleasing surface beauty...Read more -
Jian Wang: Visions of Summer
Artist Reception: August 18, 2018, 1-4pm 18 Aug - 30 Sep 2018 -
Turning Heads
A Group Exhibition: Chuck Close, Jian Wang & Richard MacDonald 9 Jun - 1 Jul 2018Turning Heads: A Group Exhibition. The face, recorded through the eyes of the artist, truly lives forever. Portraiture has been central to the history of art for centuries and this...Read more
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Still Life with Watermelon, 2005Jian WangOil25.5" x 25.5"$7,000.00
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Shadow Study #1, 2004Jian WangOil13.5" x 37.5"$7,000.00
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Piled Rock Cliff in Distance, 2016Jian WangOil10" x 30"$4,900.00
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Summer Memory in Laguna Beach #1, 2016Jian WangOil10" x 20"$3,500.00
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Harmony in Gold & Silver #7, Moonlight, 2005Jian WangOil23.5" x 29.5"$7,000.00
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Moonlight on River, 2005Jian WangOil23.5" x 25.5"$5,000.00
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Summer in Grand Canyon, 2002Jian WangOil19.5" x 25.5"$5,000.00
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Study of the Autumn Color, 1998Jian WangOil26" x 21"$5,000.00
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Harmony in Gold & Silver #2, 1998Jian WangOil22.5" x 24.25"$5,600.00
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Untitled Seascape, 1993Jian WangOil21" x 25"$5,000.00
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First Light, Grand Canyon in Blue, 2002Jian WangOil22.25" x 24.5"$5,000.00
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Sunset IJian WangOil22" x 28"$3,900.00
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Beijing Girl- Xiaofi, 2009Jian WangOil30" x 30"$5,950.00
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Untitled Woman 2, 2011Jian WangOil25" x 25"$3,500.00
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Girl in Pink, 2005Jian WangOil25.5" x 25.5"$7,000.00
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Wanna Wearing Yellow Necklace, 2015Jian WangOil31.5" x 16.5"$6,650.00
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Captain's Hat, 2006Jian WangOil15.5" x 14.25"$4,800.00
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The Magic of a Child Mind, A Old Tin Toy and Tank, 2018Jian WangOil12" x 12"$3,200.00
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Mondrian Cake, 2015Jian WangOil25" x 21"$6,900.00
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Fruit Stick, 2006Jian WangOil18.25" x 14.50"$4,750.00
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Sunrise at American River, 2001Jian WangOil19.5" x 25.5"$5,000.00
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Morning Glow, 2005Jian WangOil on Board16.25" x 20.25"$4,600.00
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Morning Fog, 2000Jian WangOil on Board18" x 20"$1,600.00
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Dusk in Valley #1, 1999Jian WangOil on Museum Board29.25" x 38.25"$6,500.00
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Golden Autumn #1, 1998Jian WangOil on Board27.5" x 42"$5,500.00
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Golden Autumn #2, 1998Jian WangOil on Board27.5" x 42"$5,500.00
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Golden Autumn on Delta #2, 2004Jian WangOil18" x 36"$6,500.00
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Diana, 2002Jian WangConte21" x 17"$840.00
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Reading by the Fire, 1993Jian WangEtching10" x 6.5"$650.00
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American River Fair Oaks, 1989Jian WangEtching17" x 20.75"$1,400.00
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Down Highway, 2015Jian WangEtching18.5" x 14.25"$1,120.00