My work explores how an image develops meaning as we spend more time looking at it. I make paintings through layering, revision, and erasure, beginning with fragments of shapes, colors, marks, and textures rather than a predetermined composition. As I work, these elements are repeatedly added, removed, covered, and reorganized until unexpected relationships begin to form. Across my work, I am interested in how separate pieces of information come together and gradually become something recognizable.

Bio

Abby Zhang is a Bay Area–based painter whose work explores memory, perception, and psychological atmosphere through layered, semi-abstract images. She received her MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in 2021, recently participated as a resident artist at Art Bias, completed a residency at Kala Art Institute and Vermont Studio Center, and has been selected for an upcoming residency at the Torrance Art Museum this summer.