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Congress Exhibits Works of Yuhua Wang

WASHINGTON–Members of the US Congress and the Congressional Arts Caucus celebrated in an exhibit the artwork of Professor Yuhua Wang here last Nov. 13. The exhibit included four of Wang’s hand-sculpted faux coral painted in oil colors.

Lawmakers and members of the Congressional Arts Caucus presented her with certificates of commendation. Legislators praised Professor Wang for her outstanding contributions to world color painting, sculpture, Oriental arts, and the development of cultural exchange.

A Congressional Commendation stated that through her practice of Buddhism, she benefits humanity and all living beings. Lawmakers at the exhibit included Corrine Brown, Danny Davis, Eliot L. Engel, Adam Schiff, Neil Abercrombie, Chaka Fattah, and David Wu.

Senator Dianne Feinstein said in her commendation that Professor Wang’s work in the oriental arts across the nation has distinguished her as a leader in the field. In a congratulatory letter, Rep. Edward Royce praised her for her outstanding accomplishments in education and art.

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty presented Professor Wang with a certificate welcoming the exhibit of her artwork. Denis G. Antoine, Ph.D., Dean of the Ambassadors of the Western Hemisphere, wrote a congratulatory letter.

Dr. Wang, born in China, now resides in the US. Currently, she’s a research professor at the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. Her faux coral and cobblestones that she hand-sculpted from lightweight material and painted have been praised in the Congressional Record as being “treasures of the world.” The Congressional Record also states, “In the history of Chinese art, her lotus flower paintings are unsurpassed…”

Prof. Stephen Farthing, a world-renowned art scholar at the Rootstein Hopkins Research Chair in Drawing at the University of the Arts in London, and a R.A. (Royal Academician), said Wang’s paintings elegantly bring two forces together–the force that rejects perspective and the force of photorealism.

In his foreword to “World’s Highest-Level Color Paintings and Ink-Wash Paintings–the Art of Professor Yuhua Wang,” Farthing wrote her paintings “reach across cultures to celebrate the space that exists intellectually and emotionally between representation and abstraction, between a fact and an idea.”  

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