Sunny Apinchapong Yang has an inner need to express his emotions through his paintings. Following his own muse, he moves rapidly from genre to genre, from landscapes to still lifes to portraitur. Yang's work is expressive, but this expressiveness is tempered by years of intense training. He had a B.A. from Art Center College of Design and an M.A. from California State University, Los Angeles when he began his studies with the Russian master Sergei Bongart (1918 - 1985) in 1978. Bongart became the young artist's teacher and mentor and introduced Yang to the emphasis on natural light and the vigorous brushwork that is characteristic of Russian Impressionism. Yang was born in Thailand to chinese parents who had settled there during the Second World War. He moved to Los Angeles to attend college and now lives in Southern Californis with his wife Penny and his two children.	"Still Life with Lilacs" 36" x 48" Oil on Canvas