She will describe herself as offbeat, support it with a list of her influences (A. Warhol, fashion designers Betsey Johnson, Vivienne Westwood and Sonia Rykiel) and then claim that in her art she aims for “absolute flatness”. Her slightly irreverent charm and quirky candor with which she approaches the whole drama of artifice is composite of her positive art. She describes this specific kind of positivism as the way she treats and translates the subjects and the many sources of inspiration; that even the dark colors she uses or the more austere themes strike the audience on the upside.
Tang, a professional artist, will paint murals for homes and establishments with the same skill and care as if it were an exhibit piece.
“There are some things impossible and impractical” that she will covet, from pink asphalt roads to rainbow bridges and art is her answer to farcical fantasies. But always the gravity and depth is always present. Her real skill: to make seemingly simple what in reality isn’t.