In "Beijing Fruitcakes", Wang uses the still-life subject to explore formal qualities of creating art: color, line, shape, light, composition, and texture. Like the objects themselves, his works are wonderfully layered. Jian Wang has the unique ability to use color and shadow in unexpected ways to recreate the look and feel of the substance it depicts. In "Beijing Fruitcakes", the artist originally painted the pastries with thick, heavy strokes to produce a textured surface. As the artist revisits the idea for this serigraph, it represents the same extension of the visual thought, but through a new, and exciting medium.

For over 20 years Jian Wang has been serving bountiful helpings of color to audiences in the form of landscapes and still lifes rendered in vibrant oil paint. Deep orange, emerald green, and luscious lavender suffuse his sumptuous works, inviting us to revel in the inspirational beauty around us.