artist: ping zheng

series: Time Traveler

title: Wild Land

portfolio: http://www.zheng-ping.com/en

Ping Zheng was born in was born in 1989 in Zhejiang, China and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 and a BFA in painting from the University College of London, Slade School of Fine Art in 2014. Her works have been exhibited at Kristen Lorello, New York, NY, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, and Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY,Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, the Chinese American Arts Council/Gallery 456, New York, NY, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and DDP(Dongdaemun Design Plaza), Seoul, South Korean, “ASYAAF: Asian Students and Young Artists Festival” among other venues. She has completed artist residencies at AADK Spain, in Blanca, Spain, the Rancho Linda Vista Arts Community, in Oracle, Arizona, and the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, Vermont among others. Her works are included in the collections of the Cleveland Clinic Art Program and JP Morgan Chase Bank, Fidelity Investments among others.

Nowadays, there are so many things happening in the world, we have been through both negative and positive experiences in our lives. Being visual artist, my passionate belief in equality, males and females are just part of this universe. Because my inspiration is grounded in childhood memories of natural landscapes, where I felt free as a human in the outdoors, avoiding family pressures as being a girl at home. My exhibition aims not only display powerful visual statements, but to also bright dialogue between varied audience. I always want to support women, and I deeply believe that women can do something and make the world better place. I hope my voice can be heard many more people through my artwork. Nature is a universal language, an artist expresses visible and tangible messages of hope, help and inspiration from a experience in life. I like to go to nature, because it's a way to evoke to my childhood memory of nature. I sense western world was like a wild nature in my childhood, bring me alive and my thought without restrained traditional rules in my family. It's kind of metaphorical way of evolving my practice and finding who I am at present in this current world through art.

The process of making art for me is like going on imaginative adventures. For me, the use of oil stick enables me to have a very direct sense of contact between the color and the paper, unmediated by the use of a brush.

I like to express my mind thorough the nature and think that human beings are a part of universe whatever you are male or female, eventually our bodies become soil or dust into the air or on the ground.

This work was exhibited in the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art NFT Show, which took place from February 1 through April 30, 2022. The show features artworks from the 174 artists that were exhibited in mowna's first year. Current international artists working in a wide range of artistic mediums. High quality artists and diverse artwork. Innovative new technologies, experimenting in the art and museum space, and paying artists for their work. While the future of NFTs is unclear, mowna acknowledges the NFT space as a new opportunity for art. The show has been added to mowna's collection, which is available for viewing online at https://www.mowna.org.

The winner of this auction will receive a 1/1 limited edition NFT, minted by the museum. 70% of the sale will pay the artist of the NFT for their work, with the remaining 30% paying for the creation of the museum platform. The winner will also unlock a free one month membership code for the museum.