Art Portfolio

Junting Zhang

Ceramics

" Flesh (In progress)"

stoneware clay/ Year 2025

Height: 23 inches

Width: 18 inches

Depth: 20 inches

Even the weakest animals are capable of anger. When they bare their fangs, it does not necessarily signal victory, but the awakening and continuation of a resilient spirit being passed on.

"Death is wealth."

White clay/ Raku Glaze/ Gold foil paper/ Year 2024

Height: 10 inches

Width: 6 inches

Depth: 7.6inches

Death is not an ending, but another form of abundance. Bones nourish new life, allowing flowers of existence to bloom from what remains.

"Blooming."

Stoneware clay/ White Glaze/ Year 2024

Height: 8.5 inches

Width: 6 inches

Depth:4 inches

Life itself is an unparalleled act of blooming. Every heartbeat, breath, and bodily rhythm reveals the continuous unfolding of existence.

"Hands in Escape, Eyes in Witness."

Stoneware clay/ Year 2024

Height: 15 inches

Width: 16 inches

Depth: 18 inches

When thought is confined, the mind begins to call for help. Countless hands attempt to break free, while the eyes witness the struggle of thought turning inward on itself.

"In the Shadow of Six Wings. "

white clay/ white Glaze/ Gold foil paper/ Year 2024

Height:9 inches

Width:6 inches

Depth:3 inches

Innate nature is constrained by society. Beneath the elder’s outstretched wings lie indelible scars shaped by hardship—does the angel who shelters your growth bear the same wounds?

Oil Painting

" Life Flashing Before One's Eyes "

Year 2025

20 x 5 inches

This painting is created using oil paint. It portrays how individuals are gradually consumed after entering society, ultimately becoming a “dish on the table,” while moments before death, fragments of life flash back, and childhood innocence is slowly replaced by adulthood.

Yet in death, a sense of release emerges, suggesting a quiet form of blooming beyond life.

" Where All Beings Become One "

Year 2025

24 x 18 inches

This work is created using oil paint. Using the familiar image of the Virgin Mary as a reference, the halo is replaced with human hands to represent shared emotional projection formed under extreme social conditions.

It suggests that spiritual figures are socially constructed as collective containers for human emotion, created in response to the need for psychological support and emotional stabilization.

" Peace "

Year 2024

16 x 16 inches

This painting is created using oil paint. It depicts the consequences of human riots and mutual violence.

"Still life"

Year 2024

12 x 16 inches

This work is created using oil paint. It is a realistic study based on direct observation, produced as a classical-style painting drawn from a real-life reference

"Communicate"

Year 2025

16 x 12 inches/ 16 x 12 inches

This work is created using oil paint and composed of two joined panels. It depicts scenes of human dialogue, where spoken words vary by individual, ranging from tenderness to violence. Yet humanity’s inherent social nature binds people together, forming the vast structure of human society.

Oil Painting series- Illusion

"Ceiling"

Year 2025

5 x 20 inches

This painting, created with oil paint, presents a sense of visual emptiness and oppression.

The eyes fixate without purpose, suggesting mental stagnation and emotional suppression—staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring, staring......

"Eye"

Year 2025

10 x 10 inches

This work is created using oil paint.

It depicts emotional suppression and the sense of melting that arises when the mind loses clarity.

"Hand"

Year 2025

15 x 10 inches

This work is created using oil paint. Examines visual hallucinations that can occur during depressive states.

The fragmented arms structure is used to illustrate the sensation of the body becoming weightless and separated during these hallucinatory experiences.

"Thermal imaging"

Year 2025

10 x 15 inches

This work is created using oil paint.

The warmth of the human body signals living presence.

Pulse and heat quietly honor the value of life.

Though living is imperfect,

do not erase the vivid red within the cold，

and watch the present slip away.

Digital Art

"Dreamy"

Year 2025

3619 x 4821px

This work is created using digital art. It presents a dreamlike fantasy detached from reality, where everything appears ideal, ethereal, and free of logic.

“Mutual Cannibalism”

Year 2025

5000 x 5369px

This work is created using digital art.

It explores the animalistic instincts revealed within human intimacy, where individuals support, drain, and consume one another.

"Bulimia"

Year 2025

2059 x 3057px

This work, created using digital art, presents binge-eating emotions through a cartoon-like visual style. Beneath the food imagery lies an endless, cheese-like stretch of pain and suffering.