I am interested in how images act as vessels for emotional residue—how a fragment of a landscape or the trace of a gesture can feel both personal and collective. This leads me to explore painting as an evolving archive, one that does not aim to preserve clarity but rather to hold ambiguity and multiplicity.

Research in my studio often centers on how partial images can carry narrative weight without fully revealing themselves. I experiment with layering, erasure, and repetition to mimic the way memories shift, overlap, and erode. I am particularly interested in how viewers project their own stories into unresolved spaces, making the act of looking as vital as the act of painting.

My inquiry is about how painting can be both object and experience—a container of inner weather that invites connection through its open-endedness.

Bio

Abby Zhang is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained as a painter, she holds a MFA fine arts degree from Pratt Institute and has exhibited her work nationally. Abby works with different art forms that create meanings and challenge her. Abby is an artist member at Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland, CA. She recently participated in the Nomad III and TRYST Alternative art fair hosted by Torrance Art Museum.