Luyi Wang “I am always wondering how the robots will response to love in the future. I guess if they can feel love, maybe they will be as shy as we are. This piece was done digitally and I had a lot of fun making it. ” -Luyi Wang Name
What materials do you like to work with?
Luyi Wang
Collage, acrylic and found object. I collect all kinds of paper and small objects, I like to spread the materials on the table and then let them guide the direction of my creation, often full of surprises. I am not a digital person, but I’ve been trying to make more digital stuff recently.
Age 28 What is your current location? I currently live in Hoboken, New Jersey.
What pieces, projects, or collaborations are you currently working on?
Where are you from?
Lately, I am working on my personal paintings about depression and life struggles.
Northeastern China
Is there any music you like to listen to while working?
What is your current occupation?
I don’t listen to music very often while working but sometimes if I do, I love Sufjan Stevens and Faye Wong.
Freelance illustrator and teaching artist Do you have any training or formal education in the field of art you work in, or are you self taught? I finished my BA at Camberwell College of Art and MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art, both in the illustration department. What people, books, films, (etc…) inspire you the most? I am mostly inspired by everything around me. Some of my favorite artists: David Hockney, Luke Best, Jockum Nordström, Laura Carlin, Laurent Impeduglia, Geran Knol.
Where do you like to work? I would love to work in a studio with other cool people and dogs. I miss studio life a lot. What is one of your earliest memories of making art? When I was in kindergarten I got to draw swans, but I could not draw their necks right, so all the swans I drew were super weird, which made me really upset. I would love to make funny swans rather than beautiful swans now, I guess I have gotten better artistic sense through these years. What do you hope to accomplish with your work? Express myself and ideally, I can make a living with what I love doing.
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