More than 20 oil paintings by two young Shenzhen artists are on display. The exhibition is the fourth season of a program to present works of local artists who have shown extraordinary talents in art.

    The paintings by Xue Yang, a female artist of a national art master title, are characterized for the dynamic effects created through her skillful use of colors to blur the boundaries between different objects, which adds a surreal and dreamy effect to her works.

    Her paintings of the solemn wildness are often lightened up by a torch-holding child moving alone in a deep forest. Despite the forlornness of her story, Xue is good at giving her pictures a warm rendering through the use of rich colors.

    Art critic Huang Zhicheng said Xue is “talented in expressing Oriental aesthetic beauty through the use of Western painting language.” “Xue has integrated skills from Oriental and Occidental schools of art and her paintings are beaming with a natural flow of her emotions,” Huang said.

    Art critic Qin Jingxia said Xue’s paintings have a penetrating sense of stress and anxiety, which is probably attributed to the caring nature of a mother and an artist of strong social concerns. “Xue has used her feminist view on life and survival in her art, so her paintings have a mesmerizing charm for their enlightening and thought-provoking effects,” Qin said.

    The process of industrial manufacturing is a dominating theme in He Liangfeng’s works. He, an artist born in the 1980s, has captured what he had witnessed in the urbanization process — the destructive power of heavy machines as well as the magical transformation that goes along with it.

    Dates: Until Dec. 28

    Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays

    Venue: Guan Shanyue Art Museum, 6026 Hongli Road, Futian District (福田区红荔路6026号关山月美术馆)

    Metro: Line 3 or 4, Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit B(Anna Zhao)