Life in an urban jungle

From a moderately sized courtyard tucked away in Beijing's hutong area within the Second Ring Road, artist Wu Yang's exhibition - Glimpses of the City - offers an interesting juxtaposition between her subject of modern urban spaces and the remnants of the city's traditional dwellings.

In the quiet quadrangle, Wu presents a series of abstract paintings inspired mostly by her two-year stay in New York City, using lines, dots and shapes to reconstruct the feeling of space and people in one of the busiest cities in the world.

Though iconic spots such as the Times Square and Lincoln Center can be found in the series, Wu says it's not necessarily all about the Big Apple.