OU YANG Wen-Yuan

Ink lines thicken and thin; writing-like strokes meet measured geometry. In these drawings, abstraction and traditional ink lean toward each other, seeking a shared language.
    A founding member of the Eastern Art Group (Ton Fan), OU YANG joined peers who, in early-1960s Taiwan, yearned to modernize art without severing it from Chinese traditions. Their aim was both artistic and social: to speak to a changing island after 1949, and to test how form could carry memory, place, and a new sense of self.
    Born in Guangxi, OU YANG moved to Taiwan in 1949 and studied with LEE Chun-Shan. These works trace that search — disciplined yet exploratory — where calligraphy’s breath, the page’s silence, and abstract structure gather into a voice that feels local and modern at once.