ABBY ZHANG: An enormous breath being held
March 14 – April 19, 2025
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, March 15, 3 – 5 pm
Artists’ Talk: Saturday, March 22, 4 -5 pm
Oakland Art Murmur/ First Friday: April 4, 5-9 pm
Abby Zhang’s paintings draw from a diverse range of inspiration, including Abstract Expressionism, Science Fiction, everyday motifs, dreams, and nature. In this series, she improvises fragmented images emerging from imagination, creating a semi-abstract, fantastical universe that portrays human traces and surreal landscapes. Her works blend representational elements with gestural marks, rendered in thin washes of paint and contrasting materials. Through these techniques, Zhang explores the ontological nature of existence, focusing on how physical objects, humans, abstract entities, memories, and experience interact within the paintings.
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Abby Zhang
Abby Zhang is a Bay Area–based painter whose work explores memory, perception, and psychological atmosphere through layered, semi-abstract images. She received her MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in 2021, recently participated as a resident artist at Art Bias, completed a residency at Kala Art Institute and Vermont Studio Center, and has been selected for an upcoming residency at the Torrance Art Museum this summer.