Double Square 双方藝廊

Yen Ye-Cheng was born in Taichung in 1955. He graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (Western Painting) in 1978. In 1991, he went to the United States and graduated from the State University of New York with a Master of Fine Arts three years later. Since 1988, he has participated in many group shows and has held numerous solo exhibitions. After he returned to Taiwan in 1994, he kept painting as he was teaching at schools, during which he determined to identify himself as a professional artist. Regarding Yen’s works, Oriental charm is illustrated through Western media while the artist’s awakening experience is translated into abstract forms of flowers. He converts his feelings and preoccupations into outlines marked on the canvas - from sensory perceptions and gathering of thoughts, to the process of which it transcends outward appearance of things, and further evolves into abstract colors, textures, and contours on canvases. The representation of flowers fosters unlimited artistic creativity in Yen. His works are not merely based on observation and depiction, but layers of brush strokes that flow, smear, wax and wane, coming down to a series of scattered pattern, revealing ups and downs of life. Unfolded under Yen’s layers of painting is an exceptionally intriguing spiritual world.