Beijing-based artist Wang Nanyi is the latest talent to contributing to Pawnstar’s Upcycled series. These necklaces, earrings, and other pieces are conceptually interesting, but also promise to be commercially viable.
Wang displays a keenness for materiality, shape, and texture with these designs in which she burns the edges of pieces of leftover wool fabric provided by leading Chinese fashion retailer JNBY. This series is called heixiang (黑香） or “Black Wave”.
 
 
Beijing based artist Wang Nanyi was born in Yantai, Shandong, in 1987, and studied murals and public art at Shandong Art College and the oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
