Artist Spotlight - Ai-Wen Wu Kratz — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Being born with the proclivity for colors and forms that constitute the visual world, I find great happiness to be in a league of individuals that are committed to bring our invisible selves by way of our art to all others that are on different paths of life. Our contributions, jointly as artists, is to share with others our sensitivities, visual or spiritual, that are unique to us, by birth and/or by training.

Renewal / Part I, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 41 cm.

'The Scream' of Edvard Munch; the letters of Van Gogh to his brother; the night walks along the hillside paths from the Skowhegan School Library back to the cottage; Wassily Kandinsky's first encounter with Monet's painting, "Haystack," that liberated in him the independent power of colors, line, shapes, planes and forms from subject matter;

Improvisation, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 43.18 cm diameter.

the paper, crayons, clipboard and I, myself, sketching by the roadside; the closing of an art critique session in late night, then to fetch a place for food, along the questionable turns amidst the NY City streets;

Dance To The Earth, 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 152 x 30 cm.

the intense bond between the violin and Julia Fischer and her mastery over the instrument bringing forth miraculous music that reaches our soul; all have sustained a fire in me to act and to paint above womanhood and motherhood. The latter, interestingly, has enriched me and secured the basis of my confidence in professionalism.

I Found In Him My Star My Sun, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 114 cm.

It was said that a man, with his briefcase, religiously every day left his house through one door and entered the same house through another to his basement office to begin and end his daily office work. With the same seriousness, I should continue to produce.

Five Sonnets, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm each.

Artist Statement

Ai-Wen Wu Kratz holds a Master of Fine Art degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is an alumna of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and of New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Masquerade, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 81 cm.

Wu Kratz has had One-Person Exhibitions in the United States, France, Germany, England, Egypt, and Austria. Her most recent One-Person Exhibition was held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, USA, from June 4 to August 24, 2025.

The Gift Of Life, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 76 cm.

Wu-Kratz’s search in the visual art is spirituality, intellectualism and aesthetics. She draws inspirations from literature, classical music, stage design, vocal art, choreographic lines in ballet and contemporary dance. Dr. Mara Ferloni, Critic and Journalist commented on works by Ai-Wen Wu Kratz:

Spring Canzonetta, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 61cm.

"A fascinating language rich in meaningful forms with a dialectic indicating a style of maturity: an emotional lyricism which becomes a protagonist across a palpable rendering of forms. A scenic rendering full of joy, in which one is surrounded by a joy of colors, which testify to a great creative sensitivity, expressed in a language which preserves a fascinating poetry in its structural integrity."

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