Bio

Dorothy Yung (Rong Zhian). Born 1940 in Wuxi, China. Oil on canvas, watercolor, jewelry and fashion. 1960 Associate of Arts, Garland Jr. College, Boston, MA. 2021 Honorary Dean of Wuxi Calligraphy and Painting Academy, Wuxi, China. Exhibited throughout the world including the Marlborough Gallery in London, the Hong Kong Cultural Center and AT&T Headquarters and is currently featured at the Wuxi Museum in Wuxi, China. Lives and works in Kauai, Hawaii.

Artists Statement

Born in Shanghai, China, Dorothy Yung left China in 1949 with her family, first to Hong Kong and then later to Brazil. In 1958, she came to the U.S. to study art at Garland Jr. College in Massachusetts. Influenced by the Impressionist and Cubist masters, Yung created her own, intensely personal artistic style called ‘Spiritual Dimensionalism’. When viewed closely, her paintings reveal multiple dimensions with a graceful array of spirits that re-tell stories with ancient Chinese poetry, making them more relevant today than perhaps they’ve ever been. Chinese poetry and Western expressionism blend together on her canvas, not as separates or opposites, but as one. Through her paintings, the spirit world dances like whispers from another world, and worlds within worlds, reminding us here on earth that there is much more to life than the physical world.