San Jose Metro on Wayne Jiang’s cityscapes

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Feature in a major Bay Area city’s alternative weekly on one of our summer featured artists, painter Wayne Jiang.

Canvas Noir

Local artist Wayne Jiang captures the solitude of San Jose by night in his evocative paintings

January 5, 2010 – by Gary Singh

ROUND MIDNIGHT:Wayne Jiang’s 2009 acrylic ‘Babyland’ is as much an exploration of the idea of ‘the other’ as it is an urban landscape.

FROM INSIDE the main corridor at Alameda Artworks Studios, artist Wayne Jiang is pointing toward the open doorway, through which we can see the setting sun. Outside, across the narrow parking lot and behind a squat chain-link fence, sits Park Avenue Preschool, which isn’t actually located on Park Avenue.

Both the preschool and Alameda Artworks Studios sit on The Alameda, just off Race Street, separated by this parking lot we’re gazing across from the studio hallway. Next to the preschool are a playhouse, a jungle gym and a toy sports car popular with the kids.

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