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Nocturne in Gold & Blue 2022

Nocturne in Gold & Blue 2022 | Original Artwork

$7,722.00

About the Artwork

Nocturne in Gold & Blue 2022 | Original Artwork

The Nocturne in Gold & Blue 2022 artwork is a unique original painting by contemporary artist Zhou Yang, created in acrylic on canvas. Its layered abstract composition brings together color, expressive forms, and contrasting visual elements to create a dynamic surface that rewards close observation.

A Contemporary Abstract Composition

Nocturne in Gold & Blue, 2022 explores the relationship between contrasting visual states. The composition brings different forms and colors into interaction, creating a sense of tension and movement without reducing the artwork to a single interpretation.

Zhou Yang works at the intersection of abstract painting and a graffiti-rooted visual language. His practice explores ideas of duality, reconciliation, and the coexistence of seemingly opposing forces. His abstract works often hold contrasting states such as presence and absence, familiarity and estrangement, or dream and material reality within the same visual field.

Acrylic on Canvas

The Nocturne in Gold & Blue, 2022 painting is created with acrylic on canvas and measures 39.4 × 39.4 inches (100 × 100 cm). Its square format gives the composition a balanced presence, making it suitable for contemporary interiors, private collections, and curated art spaces. The artwork is unique and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.

Artwork Details

  • Artist: Zhou Yang
  • Year: 2022
  • Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
  • Dimensions: 39.4 × 39.4 in / 100 × 100 cm
  • Edition: Unique artwork
  • Certificate: Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
  • Artist Location: Xi'an, China

Expressive Art for Contemporary Spaces

The Nocturne in Gold & Blue, 2022 artwork brings together abstraction, color, mark-making, and visual tension in an original work with a strong contemporary presence.

For collectors interested in contemporary abstract painting and Zhou Yang's distinctive visual language, this one-of-a-kind artwork offers a thoughtful combination of color, structure, movement, and expressive form.

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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