Angela Wei "Earthly Delights"

Angela Wei "Earthly Delights" 2025

Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 48 x 48 inches
Unique
Signed on verso by artist

Angela Wei is a painter based in New York City. She holds a degree in Visual Arts and Art History from Barnard College of Columbia University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at New York University, where she also serves as adjunct faculty.
Wei has previously exhibited at institutions such as Christie's NY, CICA Museum in Korea, Uffner and Liu Gallery, Chambers Fine Art, among many others.

Artist Statement:

"The tension between reality and deception running through my works guides my interest in artifice. Flora and fauna are recurring elements of my work. Yet, these biomorphic scenes feel closer to a staged hallucination than the natural world; flower petals gleam as if they were made of plastic, stems curl with impossible elasticity, and colors are so saturated they verge on being toxic. Rather than using flowers as decoration, I treat them as symbolic, bodily presences—sites where cultural expectations of femininity (beauty, delicacy, desirability) are constructed, rehearsed, and, ultimately, resisted.

My practice is deeply informed by art history, for which I hold a BA. I’m equally drawn to artists from both the East and the West; I borrow the graphic clarity of Japanese ukiyo-e prints and combine it with the allegorical world-building compositions of Dutch masters like Bosch. This fusion of influences mirrors my Occidental/Oriental background as both Chinese and Canadian. The at-times conflicted, at-times symbiotic relationship between these two cultural inheritances feeds my preoccupation with artifice, unease, and perception." - Angela Wei

Read more about her artwork and exhibitions on our website.