The walls of the Gallery at Queen’s Park may appear to be growling at you next time you walk in.
Fiona Tang’s Charcoal Gone Wild is on display at the gallery from April 5 to 30. An opening reception is set for Wednesday, April 5 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Tang is a Vancouver-based artist who completed a bachelor of fine arts degree in drawing at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2014.
She works with charcoal, chalk pastel and acrylic using trompe l’oeil techniques to bring her paintings to life. She frequently uses animals as her subject in life-size or larger-than-life-size drawings.
“My hope is to minimize the distance between humans and animals,” she said in an artist’s statement. “I want viewers to engage with my work emotionally and/or physically and be overwhelmed with a sense of vulnerability and wonder by the sheer size.”
The animals also help to represent abstracted forms of battles, struggles or successes in Tang’s own life.
“My subject and I truly become one through the act of drawing, and my feelings are translated through the intense gestural mark makings and the use of trompe l’oeil,” she said.
Tang will be on hand at the gallery on weekends and will be drawing live on site. See www.acnw.ca for more information.
