Huang Kui, one of the participating artists in the project “Interventions,” presented a work titled Outstanding Citizen Award. The artist gave the certificate and five RMB to anyone who would cross the street on a red light on Chang Shou Road in Shanghai on January 20th, 2007. The documentation of this action was posted on […]

The recent exhibition at Amelia Johnson Contemporary features eight artists, all selected from the gallery’s award winning stable. In a variety of media and a diversity of styles, the exhibition highlights some of the promising young artists working in China today. Themes of urban isolation are the focus of Xing Danwen’s large format photographs.  The […]

Meng Jin’s latest work “Anonymous Architecture” is a series of six paintings of acrylic on canvas. This series centers on the notion of “editing” architecture and it also re-contextualizes “found” architectural objects or spaces. A series of simple, lined images, such as columns or an abandoned stage, place abstract elements into a spatial context: peripheral […]

“Play With Me!”—it sounds like the entreaty of a bossy child. In this scorched and blackened landscape set around a tumorous tree, creepy baby dolls, human-headed birds and human-vegetable hybrids play out perverse games. Looking upon Yuliya Lanina’s Boschian orgy, it seems at times innocent, at times twisted. These feelings never quite resolve, but remain […]

After receiving my degree in architecture in 1972 I steered away from architectural practice in order to research architectural issues in a laboratory-like setting. I make buildings, furniture, vessels and utensils as backdrops and props for everyday, ordinary human activity. These isolate, elevate and monumentalize eating, sleeping and bathing, turning life into theater. My work […]

A bright, sunny day welcomes us in Middletown, Connecticut, home to Wesleyan University. We’re in for a real treat: a sneak peek into an otherwise little shown, diverse and rather eclectic collection of prints, photographs, musical instruments, archeological materials and East Asian artifacts. The collection is currently relegated to small and sometimes inadequate storage facilities, […]

Art isn’t formulaic speculation, nor is it the suffocation of a restricted circle, even less is it a game to be played among the nouveau riche or soon to be nouveau riche. Art must be concerned with people. What the artist needs is a consciousness of people. The Lv Xiao is a self-organized internet community […]

My current work “Couples” attempts to address a series of questions about self-representation, the private versus public experience, and the ephemeral nature of control in a series of large-scale photographic autoportraits. In my experience shooting fashion and other commercial photography, I became fascinated by roles played both by myself as the photographer/director and that of […]

Deng Jianjin painted all his images with knotty strokes. Thanks to the sense of connection between a knotty look and a morose mood, the painter has been able to express his inner desolation through knotty strokes. This style was commonly seen in traditional Chinese scholarly paintings as a result of the early aesthetical development in […]

The sculptural installation, Halong-Kellong, is the imagined self-projection of modern life from a Chinese peasant’s perspective. This is a work of analytical realism, using the processes of design, production, participation and performance to present a microcosm of contemporary China. Halong-Kellong is comprised of a three hand truck imprinted with a Harley-Davidson style logo. Each work […]