Rebirth from messy woods
Here I am
Melting with flowers
Animation frame of Incense
Playing with Nature
Animation frame of Rebirth from the messy woods
Artist Bio
Amy Zheng was born in Beijing, China, and currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her M.S. in Accounting before she started the art journey. She is an interdisciplinary artist, mainly focusing on paintings, drawings, experimental animation, fabric arts, weaving, and installation. From her art works, she deepest quests are how to interact with nature; how to connect to the ancestors; how to define herself; what a transcultural life brings us; how we face aging and death.
Artist Statement
The contents of her art works are deeply rooted from her girlhood memories, the rich histories of China, philosophies (eg. Taoism, Buddhism), life and death, cultural interactions, and nature. She always feels emotionally a strong tie to many old artworks and antiques traveling across space and time that allows her to have dialogues with the ancestors. World art history has taught her the basis of art is irregularity and emotion, which she wants to synthesize into her own works. She is more like a conservator of cultural relics, putting the fragments of history together into one piece to endow the works to have flesh and blood, and sentiment and righteousness. Recently, she is interested in expressing her ideas in a more abstract and comprehensive way with deeper interaction with the audience.
She currently works on paintings, drawings, experimental animation, installation, and textile. Her deepest quests are how to interact with nature; how to define herself; what a transcultural life brings us; how we face aging and death.