PROFILE

Yee Wah’s kaleidoscopes of color burst like rockets across the paper to form vibrant multi-colored shapes and configurations that suggest much in the way of content when in fact the painting is non-objective in concept and technique. Yee Wah was born onto a family of prominent artists in China where she studied at the Chung Nam Arts School in Wubai and subsequently at the New Asia College, in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her father, Yuen Tsin Yip and mother, Chiu Fang Poon were well known artists from Guang Zhou, China. She married Kwan Jung in 1962 and moved to San Diego in 1963. She is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, CA; the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild; and the Watercolor USA Honor Society, MI.

Yee Wah’s works are modern abstract design painting in Acrylic, portraiture in Oil, and traditional Chinese figure painting on Silk. Her artwork has been exhibited in the U.S., Canada, and Hong Kong including Hong Kong City Hall, 1970; the Art Centre Gallery, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, 1976; Jung’s Gallery, La Jolla, 1978; United States International University, SD, 1982; MiraCosta College Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, 1997; and the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum, CA, 1988.

She has won many awards including First Place, Southern California Expo Arts Annual Exhibition in Del Mar, CA, 1971; First Place in 25^th Annual Arts Festival, San Diego, 1988; Watercolor West Annual, 1973; San Diego Art Institute annuals, 1973, 75, 76; and National Watercolor Society Annuals 1973, 74, 75. Second Place, Religious Art 1989 San Diego; and Award of Distinction from Rockport Publisher in 1997.

Her artwork has benn featured in: “The Paintings of Kwan and Yee Wah Jung” by Fred Whitaker; “Environmental Escape” by Jan Jennings; “Splash 1” by Rachel Wolf; “The Art of Kwan Y. Jung and Yee Wah Jung” by Jan Jennings; “Abstract in Watercolor”, and “Landscape Inspiration” by Betty Schlemn; and “The Best of Flower Painting 2 by Rachel Wolf.

She is listed in the Who’s Who of American Art, the Who’s Who in the World, and the Who’s Who of Women and Artists of Chinese Origin in the North American Directory.