Alex Z. Wang is a New York based abstract painter whose practice centers on oil and pigment to explore the tension between chaos and stillness. His work investigates how movement, light, and materiality converge to create moments of quiet vitality and depth.

Wang’s paintings draw inspiration from rhythm, emotion, and the atmospheric qualities of light — how it reveals, obscures, and transforms color into energy. His work distills sensations that exist before language, capturing the fluid states of transformation and becoming. His approach reflects a dialogue between order and entropy, control and surrender, mirroring his transition from a career in strategy consulting to a life devoted to intuitive creation.

At GlogauAIR, Wang is developing a series that examines the emotional and perceptual power of texture. These works contrast minimal brushwork with dense, tactile layers to question how surface alters feeling and meaning. This process-driven inquiry invites viewers to engage with the materiality of paint itself, sensing emotion through surface rather than image.

Through his work, Wang invites reflection on how emotion, memory, and movement inhabit the physicality of paint. Visitors to his open studio are encouraged to experience the subtle tension between restraint and intensity — to slow down, observe, and rediscover their own rhythm within the shifting interplay of texture, color, and light.