Quiet, Peijuan Tang, 2025, mixed media, 30 x 48 in. / 76.2 x 121.92 cm.

Fragments of Becoming: Mixed Media by Peijuan Tang

December 25, 2025 Gavin Coates

Featured image: Quiet, Peijuan Tang, 2025, mixed media, 30 x 48 in. / 76.2 x 121.92 cm.

Peijuan Tang’s mixed-media works explore moments of internal shift rather than external events.

Peijuan Tang creates mixed-media abstractions that explore emotional transition, resilience, and inner states through layered surfaces, restrained color, and psychological depth.

Across Rise, Crack, and Light, Tang constructs a visual language for psychological transition, states of tension, recovery, and emergence that resist clear resolution. These works do not narrate healing as a straight line, but instead linger in the subtle, often uncomfortable spaces where change begins to take shape.

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Rise, Peijuan Tang, 2025, mixed media, 14 x 11 in. / 35.56 x 27.94 cm.

A sense of gentle ascent moves through Rise, where pale greens and softened light appear to lift the surface from within. The composition feels guided by breath rather than force, with vertical streaks and translucent layers suggesting motion regained after stillness. Nothing here announces triumph. Instead, strength returns quietly, through accumulation and restraint. Tang’s use of mixed media allows the surface to remain porous, as if the painting itself is still deciding whether to rise or remain suspended.

Crack, Peijuan Tang, 2025, mixed media, 24 x 24 in. / 60.96 x 60.96 cm.

In contrast, tension dominates Crack, a work rooted in fracture rather than recovery. Heavy arcs, scraped textures, and dense, darkened passages create a surface that feels burdened and unresolved. Rather than attempting to repair what has broken, the composition preserves instability, allowing damage to remain visible. As part of Tang’s Moment Series, this piece captures psychological aftershocks, the kind that linger, resist coherence, and refuse easy narrative closure. The work holds its ground in discomfort, asserting that rupture itself can be a permanent state.

Light, Peijuan Tang, 2025, mixed media, 14 x 11 in. / 35.56 x 27.94 cm.

Where earlier pieces strain upward or inward, Light settles into a quieter register. Warm blush tones and diffused whites spread gently across the surface, creating an atmosphere of early illumination rather than sudden revelation. The marks shimmer softly, like sunlight filtered through lingering haze. This is not clarity that erases the past, but clarity that coexists with it. The painting feels grounded, offering a sense of calm that arrives only after extended shadow.

Taken together, these three works form a meditation on becoming rather than resolution. Tang resists the impulse to dramatize recovery or aestheticize trauma. Instead, abstraction becomes a method of witnessing, tracking internal motion as it unfolds unevenly, honestly, and without promise of finality. Rise, Crack, and Light suggest that transformation is not a destination, but a series of moments lived from the inside.

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