Lawrence Yang is an artist that I
have been following for years. He is one of the biggest influences on my own
personal art when I started out making attempts to teach myself how to paint.
His artwork is influenced by his love for graffiti and
traditional Chinese painting. His artwork includes many different mediums from
watercolor, ink, and marker. Yang tries to find order in chaos within his
artwork and communicates that through color. Yang’s artworks are considered Pop
Surrealist type paintings of characters and landscapes. He starts out by
creating washes on canvas to act as backgrounds. He stores them until he is
able to paint an idea on them, which can sometimes take months. His art started
to become popular when he revamped the Pepsi logo to look like an obese man.
Currently, he works during the day for Apple and spends the
rest of his time creating artwork. Yang is self taught since he went to school
for Biology. Making a living off of art never occurred to him, it was always
something he did for fun. He lives in San Francisco with his imaginary pets,
Cholo and Binky.
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