Fay Deng

My art shall not only give the viewers aesthetic pleasure, but also strike a personal chord with them through history, culture, and the hidden mysteries of ancient colors and scents

Fay transitioned from portraiture and landscape art to abstract art a few years ago. The desire to explore unbounded frontiers, the urge to break away from predetermined shapes and details, bubbled to the tip of her brush. She enjoys the freedom, the boldness, and the ability to write mysterious frictions using her colorful and powerful strokes, leaving room for one’s own interpretation of history and life experiences. There was no turning back.

Abstract art gives a freedom that is not easy: it depends upon discipline and intuition. Detours are quite common, but they introduce the surprising turns that bring the journey to the right destination, the one that was anxiously calling to be born. Impulse, internal cues, and natural flow are important in Fay’s art.

Fay’s formative years in China and traveling around the world gave her a sense of history and millenary traditions that permeate her work. At times, calligraphy, music, antiques, renaissance, ancient temple or Maya ruins from her life experience hide in her paintings. They rest in deep la...

Ph.D. - Construction Engineering and Management -2004
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Master of Arts - 2002
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Other Art Training
Rulei Bu, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2010-2012
Deanna Schwartzberg, Alexandria, Virginia, 2016
Bryan Jernigan, Alexandria, Virginia, 2017

The Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA, April 2018, 2018 National Juried Exhibition

Overland Park Art Center, Kansas – April – June 2018 –Juried Exhibition 2018

Stephen F. Austin State University Art Gallery, April – June 2018, Texas National Juried Exhibition 2018

The Art League, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia – March 2018 - Landscape Juried Exhibition

Laurel Art Guild, Montpelier Gallery, Laurel, Maryland – March 2018 – 49th Annual LAG Open Juried Exhibition

West Windsor Arts Council, Princeton Junction, New Jersey – March-April 2018 - Abstraction (2nd Place Award)

Studio 7 Gallery, Rockaway Point, New York – March-April 2018 – Of Women by Rockaway Artist Alliance

Limner Gallery, Hudson, New York – April 2018 – Neoteric Abstract IV

Blue Orange Gallery, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas – March – April 2018 – 35th VAA Juried Open Exhibition

Idaho Falls Art Council, Idaho Falls, Idaho – March – May 2018 – 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition

Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois – March 2018 – Galex 52

Gilmer Arts Gallery, Ellijay, Georgia, February – March 2018 – Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Sacramento Fine Arts Center, California, February – March 2018 – Magnum...