Michelle Concepción’s abstractions, evocative of cellular forms or ancient asteroids, allow color to reemerge in the soft, dreamy shapes that appear to be floating in a bottomless abyss or deep space, visual meditations that invite the mind to wander among them. These abstractions on canvas create an illusion of surface texture with luminous backgrounds enriched … Read More
Artes y Letras Publicado el domingo 11 de mayo del 2008 By Adriana Herrera Especial/El Nuevo Herald La exhibición “Nueve artistas emergentes de China,” en Virginia Miller Gallery, se inscribe dentro de ese despertar del dragón que es la vanguardia artística china y la creación de un fenómeno de mercado que supera el furor que … Read More
The 2007 Chinese Contemporary Art Document, which lists 275 leading Chinese artists with their biographies and illustrations of their work, includes six of the nine artists in the current ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries exhibition, Under the Radar: Nine Contemporary Chinese Artists. Along with their photo and biographies of Li Jia, Cui Jin, Wang Limin, Zhu Yan, … Read More
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus Published on April 16, 2008 at 11:09am Miami New Times China’s booming art parade makes a second stop in Coral Gables. With a market that’s giving off more heat than Beijing‘s Tibetan crackdown, Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction of contemporary Chinese art shattered expectations last Wednesday. A wild bidding spree sent … Read More
Liang Haopeng’s works are mostly paintings of unruly beheavior, chaotic gatherings often depicting verbal and physical arguments. He deliberately paints the figures in his canvases with oblique lighting and rimmed in red, so they appear violent and sinister. By capturing his subjects in peak action ”what the renowned photographer Henri Cartier- Bresson called the decisive … Read More
The paintings of Li Jia, whose work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom and the United States as well as in Shanghai and Beijing, are highly regarded in Chinese art circles: the “2007 Chinese Contemporary Art Document” gives her a full three pages and includes four half-page color illustrations. Two of the paintings shown in … Read More
The enigmatic brides-to-be in paintings by Cui Jin seemed wrapped in crinkled cellophane, like gifts that have been opened, crumpled, and re-packaged. Two full-page color illustrations of her work are included in the definitive catalog, “2007 Chinese Contemporary Art Document.” Their elbow- length lace gloves as well as the fringed shawl covering their heads traditionally … Read More
Born in Handan, Hebei Province in 1974, Wang Limin has participated in 15 group exhibitions in China, Japan and Korea as well as a solo show at the Pickled Art Centre in Beijing. Two of his large-scale portraits of attractive young women dressed in military-style uniforms of the Mao Zedong era from the “Under the … Read More
According to Liu Qi Ming, “Art is rooted in life, but from the very beginning of the history of civilization, what influences our life most is politics, from which we can never escape! The politics of our society keep us dangling above a mysterious future, leaving us all at the mercy of the hands that … Read More
Zhu Yan, represented by two 57-inch-square oils, paints in the style of China’s “new cartoon movement” that began in the 1980s as a spinoff from the internationally popular animated Japanese comics. His paintings of groups of identical, emotionless male performers on a stage appear devoid of ulterior content until viewers read their exquisitely sarcastic titles: … Read More