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Stardust 2023

Stardust 2023 | Original Artwork

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Stardust 2023

The Stardust 2023 artwork is a unique mixed-media painting by contemporary artist Zhou Yang, created with oil and acrylic on canvas. Its layered composition brings together expressive forms, color, and texture, creating a dynamic visual field that invites extended observation.

A Contemporary Mixed-Media Artwork

Stardust, 2023 explores the relationship between abstraction, movement, and visual expression. The composition develops through layered marks and contrasting elements, creating a sense of depth and continual movement across the canvas.

Zhou Yang's artistic practice draws from both abstract painting and a graffiti-rooted visual language. His work explores ideas of duality, reconciliation, and the coexistence of contrasting forces. This approach gives the painting an expressive character while allowing viewers to discover their own visual connections within the composition.

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

The Stardust, 2023 painting is created using a combination of oil and acrylic on canvas. The mixed-media approach allows different textures, marks, and layers to interact across the surface, contributing to the artwork's distinctive visual depth.

Measuring 31.4 × 31.4 inches (80 × 80 cm), the square composition provides a balanced format for displaying the work in contemporary interiors, private collections, and curated art spaces. It is a unique artwork and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.

Artwork Details

  • Artist: Zhou Yang
  • Year: 2023
  • Medium: Oil and acrylic on canvas
  • Dimensions: 31.4 × 31.4 in / 80 × 80 cm
  • Edition: Unique artwork
  • Certificate: Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
  • Artist Location: Xi'an, China

Expressive Art for Contemporary Spaces

The Stardust, 2023 artwork brings together layered abstraction, expressive mark-making, and material depth in a distinctive original painting. Its combination of oil and acrylic creates a rich surface that can become a strong visual presence within a thoughtfully curated space.

For collectors interested in contemporary abstract painting and Zhou Yang's distinctive visual language, this unique work offers an opportunity to add an original piece with a strong sense of movement, texture, and artistic expression.

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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