INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER

Seattle-based artist Maggie Jiang shows her tribute to the I-Ching in her solo show, “I-CHING THROUGH THICK AND THIN”
By Allyson Levy -July 11, 2022

This is Seattle-based Jiang’s debut solo exhibition with the J. Rinehart Gallery. Previously, her work has been featured in numerous group and solo shows throughout Washington. Her abstract paintings are multi-layered, both literally with their many coats of paint and thematically.

After spending her childhood in China, Jiang has lived and worked on multiple continents. Her background in navigating multiple cultures and languages has directly informed her work. Her work embodies visual language and transcends verbal or written language by communicating universally. Geometry plays a prominent role in how her work reflects these principles.

Jiang’s work evokes dual states, such as stillness and movement, and fluidity and rigidity, simultaneously and in harmonious balance. Her artwork’s balanced yet dual quality is also philosophically relevant to the I-Ching, which emphasizes continual change as central to life.

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