In 2009, Huang Liang’s first solo exhibition, “Settle the Life”, was originally designed for him to get rid of the shade of the misery, that he once been misdiagnosed as a lung cancer. Although the exhibition was eventually failed to relieve and end up his suffering, which experience turned out to teach him appreciating life with sincerity, instead of being defeated by fate’s black humor. Meanwhile the attitude of respect also developed into his keynote of both art creation and life.

The concept of the exhibition “Paintings Beyond Yes and No” comes from by the relatively pure essence of paintings collaborating with inner relationship and life. In his paintings, spectators can tell the ways Huang Liang honestly and patiently adopts. His paintings emphasize a sort of intense quality, which grows quietly and even gradually more and more strengthen. However what creates the astonishing phenomena is nothing more than his daily life. 

Huang Liang doesn’t constructs his paintings with socially artistic symbols, on the contrary, he depicts his true feelings and questions uncertain truth by concrete figures and stocks which lead the way to the soul and individual verify. At the first glaze, the impression of these paintings are not trendy at all. As restrained, old-fashion and even stiff as his paintings are, they seem to be affected by El Greco, the mid-age Mystic Spanish painter. However, among his classical rendering method, firmly thick touching and dull tones, tough wills as well as sparkle insights still hide behind. A slightly figurative shifting transforms distinct language structure; the meanings out of words are flashing afar. Huang Liang’s insistence may be foolish, moreover, his honesty could be outdated but do they really worth for nothing?