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Emanation 2022

Emanation 2022 | Original Artwork

$4,930.00

About the Artwork

Emanation 2022 | Original Artwork

The Emanation 2022 artwork is a unique original painting by contemporary artist Zhou Yang, created in acrylic on canvas. Its abstract composition brings together layered forms, expressive marks, and contrasting visual elements to create a dynamic field that encourages extended observation.

A Contemporary Abstract Composition

Emanation, 2022 explores the relationship between opposing ideas and visual states. Rather than presenting a single fixed interpretation, the composition creates a space where different forms and marks interact, allowing tension, movement, and contrast to coexist.

Zhou Yang's practice sits at the intersection of abstract painting and a graffiti-rooted visual language. His work draws on personal iconography and explores themes including duality, reconciliation, presence and absence, and the relationship between dream and material reality.

Acrylic on Canvas

The Emanation, 2022 painting is created with acrylic on canvas, giving the work a distinctive surface and material presence. Its square format measures 31.5 × 31.5 inches (80 × 80 cm), making it suitable for contemporary interiors, private collections, and curated art spaces.

This is a unique artwork, meaning it is a one-of-a-kind original rather than a numbered edition or reproduction. It also includes a Certificate of Authenticity for the collector.

Artwork Details

  • Artist: Zhou Yang
  • Year: 2022
  • Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
  • Dimensions: 31.5 × 31.5 in / 80 × 80 cm
  • Edition: Unique artwork
  • Certificate: Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
  • Artist Location: Xi'an, China

Expressive Art for Contemporary Spaces

The Emanation, 2022 artwork brings together abstraction, expressive mark-making, and layered visual relationships in an original work designed to create a strong presence within a space.

For collectors interested in contemporary abstract painting, Zhou Yang's artistic practice, and works that explore duality, reconciliation, tension, and visual expression, this original artwork offers a distinctive addition to a thoughtfully curated collection.

Artist

Zhou Yang

Xi’an, China

Zhou Yang is a contemporary painter based in Xi'an, China, working at the intersection of abstract painting and graffiti-rooted visual language. Drawing on hip-hop culture's transformation of street mark-making into a refined aesthetic form, Zhou's practice centers on a personal iconography that explores duality, reconciliation, and the coexistence of irreconcilable forces. His abstract series extends this vocabulary into layered compositions that hold opposing states — presence and absence, familiarity and estrangement, dream and material reality — in generative tension. Zhou's works are held in private collections internationally.
Artist statement

My work begins with a single recurring symbol — one that first appeared in my graffiti practice as a gesture toward things that close, heal, splice, and disappear. Over time, this symbol became a lens through which I examine the contradictions that structure all existence: vitality and decay, the familiar and the strange, the near and the unreachable.

I work across two interconnected bodies of practice. In my abstract paintings, I construct visual fields where opposing propositions — life and death, emotion and object, dream and reality — are not resolved but held together. The pictorial space becomes a site of reconciliation: sticky, unstable, generative. I am not interested in harmony as erasure, but in symbiosis as a form of sustained tension — a condition where incompatible things learn to coexist without losing their distance.

My graffiti-rooted works draw from hip-hop's legacy of transforming raw, direct expression into a disciplined aesthetic language. Freedom is not incidental to this practice — it is its core demand. The coincidence between my inner need for unbounded expression and graffiti's visual logic unlocked something irreversible in my work: imagery became more layered, more alive, more fully mine.

Across both series, I return to the same belief: difference is not a problem to solve. It is the shape that meaning takes.

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