Artist Reception for Penny C. Wang

Visit the JPL Art Gallery featuring work by artist Penny C. Wang. Wang has experimented with a unique style of painting called ribbon art painting, using acrylic paint on canvas. She will be available to discuss her work on Saturday, August 16, from 3 to 5pm. We hope you stop by!

Penny C. Wang has engaged in a variety of media, including gouache, watercolor, acrylic, oil, digital painting, and digital design. She is a professor at the University of Northern Iowa and also teaches art to children through private tutoring and summer camps. She has practiced both western and Asian style of painting and co-developed the Fantacism Abstract Aesthetics theory with Alex Wang.  

Her masterpieces include Vision, first exhibited at the opening of the Dean’s Gallery at Washington State University, and the graphic poetry No-Mouth Men’s Rebirth, presented at the North American Review Bicentennial Conference. She designed the 2013 CLTA conference bag and sponsored a 400-educator banquet at the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. Her artwork on silk is currently displayed at the Hoypoloi Art Gallery in Chicago O’Hare International Airport Terminal 1 and 2. She has done commission art for businesses and donated paintings to the University of Northern Iowa.

Dr. Wang has presented at numerous international conferences in cities such as Washington, D.C.; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Palo Alto, California; and Honolulu, Hawaii. She has also presented her art and educational theory at Stanford and Harvard.

In 2021, she created the Ribbon Art Style. Her artwork Hope Rises was created for the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new Halifax County courthouse in Virginia, where the painting is currently displayed. In 2023, her Ribbon Art Truth, also known as Eagle Swan in the Flamingoes' Pond, exhibited at the juried art show at the MacCallum More Gardens and Museum in Chase City, Virginia. She held her first solo exhibition of Ribbon Art at the Robert Cage Art Gallery in Virginia.

This exhibition at the Johnston Public Library marks her first solo Ribbon Art show in Iowa. For more information, please check out her website ArtLikeUs.com.