WING | Mixed Media
A Bioluminescent Kitchen
Medium: Color Pencil, Spray Paint
This work depicts a regular kitchen in a regular home but in a dream-like, under-water state.
Xuanfei Liang
10/31/2023
The Perfect Mix of Scenery (2)
Medium: Quartz-sand; Acrylic
A stream unpolluted but healthy due to the presence of algae, diverse and colorful flowers, and pink peaks reflecting the sunset above, and the mineral composition of its mountain allow for an ecosystem of wild animals to thrive and give off a sense of spiritual realm, confidence, and the embodiment of life.
Xuanfei Liang
1/4/2025
An Afghan Identity Crisis
Medium: Water color, Markers, Color Pencils
I created this mixed-media to represent and to convey my classmate's identity crisis that led her family and her to move to the US. US. As a result, instead of being a bystander, we can all fight for the idea of a woman being able to own her body without a man having to tell her to wear a burqa or not.
Xuanfei Liang
12/13/2024
Colors of the Dead
Medium: Oil Pastels, Charcoal Pencil
This work depicts the Day of the Dead. But, what is the bigger picture behind this multi-color blended craft of a skull, eyeballs, music notes, and bony fingers?
Xuanfei Liang
2/9/2025
The Setting Sun
Medium: Acrylic Paint with water
This is a scene of the sun setting with a blazing red, orange, and yellow sunset when a whale's tail suddenly appears, casting a shadow in the deep sea of tides.
Xuanfei Liang
11/24/2022
The Perfect Mix of Scenery (1)
Medium: Quartz-sand, Acrylic
This painting depicts a perfect and preserved scene created by Mother-nature. The river water is not polluted and grimy, but clear as day and healthy; the flowers are diverse and gorgeous; the sky is overseeing the pink mountain; and the scene reflects nature's definition of natural beauty.
Xuanfei Liang
10/23/2024
Am I pretty now?
Medium: Colored Pencils
There are beauty standards for women, everywhere. This raises much pressure for women in society to meet these standards and that includes surgery. Every change to the face to meet beauty standards, every tear is shed.
Xuanfei Liang
12/13/2024
A Journey through the Deep Sea
Medium: Color Pencils, Oil Pastels
If you go scuba-diving in your life next time, be sure to open your eyes underwater to see the beauty underwater.
Xuanfei Liang
8/18/2024
Serenity
Medium: Markers, Colored Pencils
This is a scene of a place I visited that I once captured in my journal and thought I would bring to life in a gallery. The still waters and palm trees in the midst of the setting sun all brings to life of an appreciation of nature and its washes of color that it gifts to the Earth.
Xuanfei Liang
11/14/2025
Redrawing the Sistine Chapel
Medium: Oil Pastels
Xuanfei Liang
10/17/2024
Omniscience
Medium: Dry-point Etching, Water-color
Most people are pessimistic, meaning that they hold the belief that the world has more negatives than positives. But, we can all learn from the life-long lesson of cherishing the small moments of happiness like a beautiful rainbow evoking a feeling of tranquility after precipitation caused by pollution.
Xuanfei Liang
5/10/2023
The Delicate Pond
Medium: Water color
This work depicts a pond in a supernatural-like state with lavender flowers blooming in the background, beta fish and lady bugs occupying the middle ground, and grass and mud occupying the foreground.
Xuanfei Liang
1/25/2025
Perfect Chemistry
Medium: Water color; Color Pencils
This work depicts a photography camera taking a photograph of the moment a chemical explosion took place in a lab. With the vibrant colored explosion, wires, and the color spectrum, this image goes to show the importance of light.
Xuanfei Liang
12/22/2024
Mix-mash of “The Scream” and “The Seated Boxer”
Medium: Oil Pastels
Xuanfei Liang
12/6/2024
Isenheim Altarpiece Come Alive in the Midst of the Sunset
Medium: Watercolor, Color Pencils
Xuanfei Liang
3/23/2024
Redrawing the Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of EDen
Medium: Color Pencils, Water color
Xuanfei Liang
1/5/2025
An Astonishing Peacock
Medium: Water color, Color Pencils
This just shows how a male peacock has to display his beauty conveyed by his feathered appearance to attract and intrigue his mates toward him, just like a human's social life.
Xuanfei Liang
2/3/2023
Mix-mash of Ecstasy of Saint Teresa and Starry Night
Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Xuanfei Liang
12/17/2024
Traffic Lights in the City
Medium: Acrylic, Color Pencils
There is little time for relaxation in the midst of the city as people don't even notice each other anymore due to the amount of traffic and people busily getting to work. The blending colors of the traffic lights showcase the busyness of NYC.
Xuanfei Liang
12/14/2024
Wild Girl
Medium: Water color
This painting depicts the many colors of red, blue, pink, yellow, black and green that nature brings to life.
Xuanfei Liang
12/22/2024
The Power of Words
Medium: Water color, Colored Pencils, Oil Pastels
Letters can form words, and, from words, we can communicate with people. No words, no civilized nation, no communication.
Xuanfei Liang
10/13/2020
A Juicy Slice of Wonder
Medium: Colored Pencils
One day, I captured a nature scene of little critters enjoying a juicy slice of watermelon left from a picnic at a park when it was raining. This moment taught me to appreciate the small but wonderful things part of a bigger picture. Sometimes, we are too busy to discover the beauty in nature.
Xuanfei Liang
12/10/2024
The See-otter
Medium: Water color, Charcoal Pencil
This work depicts a sea otter sunbathing in the midst of the blue waters and golden sun.
Xuanfei Liang
2/9/2025
A Melting Arctic
Medium: Charcoal Pencils, Colored Pencils
We need to preserve the Arctic or sea ice for the sea animals such as penguins. If global warming speeds up, the sea ice melts, and people destroy the Arctic, sea animals would be forced to adapt or to face extinction.
Xuanfei Liang
2/4/2025
Crystal Fruits
Medium: Color Pencils
Diamond shapes make up the Crystal Fruits.
Xuanfei Liang
9/12/2015
Nature’s Golden Gift
Medium: Gouache
Sunflowers require the sun’s rays to grow and to thrive as a species. They are one of my favorite flowers and they symbolize positivity, resilience, spiritual awakening, optimism, harvest, and longevity.
Xuanfei Liang
9/30/2023
Redrawing the Deluge
Medium: Color Pencils, Water color
Xuanfei Liang
1/7/2025
An Abstract Utopia
Medium: Water color, Color Pencils, Markers
This is a recreation of the Female Pwo Mask from the African culture. Tis piece of mixed media depicts a woman of mixed African and White descent who is meditating in her own utopia where there is no racial discrimination .
Xuanfei Liang
12/13/2024
Portrait of Michelangelo
Medium: Color Pencil, Water color
Xuanfei Liang
12/21/2024
"The Harmonic Bird"
Medium: Acrylic, Magazines, Photoshop
The other-worldly looking flamingo contrasts with the unsightly black-yellow colored background pieced with political magazines symbolizes harmony, community, and self-expression. Unlike people, animals have simplistic lives, oblivious to the ongoing political turmoil of the 21st century.
Xuanfei Liang
5/19/2021
Fragments of the Lapita
Medium: Photoshop, Color Pencils, Markers, Acrylic Paint
Xuanfei Liang
1/3/2025
