“Creation does not need to be a strained performance. It can be, quite simply, an instinctive response to the world.”— Special thanks to BOLD JOURNEY for the interview and coverage.
Full article:https://boldjourney.com/meet-elsa-wang/
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Elsa Wang a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Elsa, appreciate you making time for us and sharing your wisdom with the community. So many of us go through similar pain points throughout our journeys and so hearing about how others overcame obstacles can be helpful. One of those struggles is keeping creativity alive despite all the stresses, challenges and problems we might be dealing with. How do you keep your creativity alive?
E: For me, the deepest source of creativity is nature itself. I have never believed that creation is a capacity unique to humans — the movement of the wind, the way light filters through leaves, the quiet turning of the seasons: these are the greatest, most irreproducible “works” of all. I also learn from animals. Their focus, their intuition, the effortless harmony between them and their environment — all of it reminds me that creation does not need to be a strained performance. It can be, quite simply, an instinctive response to the world. Nature never stops creating, and it never repeats itself. When I feel tired, or when my thoughts are stuck, I return to the mountains, to the sea, to the company of animals and plants. They have always been my most honest — and most abundant — teachers.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
E: I am the founder of Bluerider ART. Our name pays homage to Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) — the early 20th-century avant-garde movement led by Kandinsky and Franz Marc — artists who believed that art should connect the spiritual with the visible, and the East with the West. That founding spirit remains the core belief of our gallery today.
Bluerider ART operates across three continents and five exhibition spaces — including Los Angeles, London, Taipei, and Shanghai — as an international contemporary art gallery dedicated to curatorial excellence and fine art collection service. Our roster is defined by a distinctive dual structure: on one hand, we represent established European and American masters over the age of 50, whose practices carry deep art-historical weight and museum-level depth; on the other, we represent emerging Asian artists under the age of 40, who bring the freshest voices and future-facing energy of contemporary Asia. This structure allows Bluerider ART to serve as a genuine platform for dialogue — across East and West, across generations.
At our space in Los Angeles · Manhattan Beach, our upcoming exhibition Pupil & Pulse opens on May 9, bringing together 12 artists from East and West in conversation. We warmly invite everyone to visit.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
E: “In my journey, the three most crucial elements have been: perpetual curiosity, the precise integration of rationality and sensibility, and the ability to transform a passion for art into a sustainable business.
Curiosity drives me to bravely navigate into the unknown. Sensibility allows me to deeply resonate with the artworks, while rationality enables me to establish comprehensive systems and commercial frameworks. This transforms the pure realm of art into a professional enterprise, one that supports the collective growth of both our team and our artists.
My advice for those just starting out is: look more and ask more. Maintain a relentless inquiry into art, never be afraid to ask ‘why,’ and step by step, cultivate your own aesthetic taste.”
How would you describe your ideal client?
E : Our ideal collectors belong to what we call the Pyramid of Taste, rather than the traditional Pyramid of Wealth. The two are fundamentally different. The Pyramid of Wealth is ordered by the scale of one’s wealth assets; the Pyramid of Taste is defined by cultural depth, aesthetic judgment, and independent thinking.
A collector at the top of the Pyramid of Taste may not command the largest budget, but they possess the most honest eye, the open heart, and the unhurried patience. They collect not to display status, nor solely for appreciation in value, but to build a personal cultural dialogue — one that grows together with time.
Such collectors will let a single work be quietly contemplated in their home for long. They will enter the entire creative universe of an artist through a single piece. And they regard their collection as a form of cultural responsibility — leaving behind, for the next generation, something worth being seen.
We equally treasure first-time collectors, because taste is not something one is born with — it is something that is cultivated.
Bluerider ART’s role is to walk alongside them on this journey, so that “collecting” becomes not only a transaction, but a lifelong way of seeing the world and understanding oneself.
Contact Info:
Website: https://blueriderart.com/en
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blueriderartusa/
