In Ethereal Minds, NY Arts Beijing Space’s recent group exhibition of the NY Arts Residency program artists, Francisco Bustamante Gubbins, Bryce Hudson, Peter Mathias, Leah Oates, and Pierre St-Jacques presented a collection of their works and works-in-progress, all of which signaled diverse approaches to the notion of “ethereality.” Chilean artist, Francisco Bustamante Gubbins usually creates […]

Julie Mehretu: City Sitings brings together 12 of the artist’s monumental paintings inspired by community, history, and the built environment. Mehretu’s compelling canvases re-envision urban experience, and rewrite narratives of exclusion, reconciling divergent histories through her expansive, dynamic compositions. Mehretu’s work evokes highly personalized, yet distinctly universal themes that draw on her experiences as a […]

Liu Jian-Hua is an artist who is constantly exploring and trying to outdo himself. In his work, there has always been a concern for social issues, a critique of social problems. There has also been a reflection on how the world influences human psyche, a reflection that is strongly self-conscious and melancholy. When it comes […]

The Adventure series was inspired from a commission to shoot nudes. Never having approached the subject matter prior to the assignment, I knew only that I would want to photograph my subjects in natural landscapes as opposed to the comfortable confines of the indoors. However, simply photographing a person nude in the great outdoors was […]

León Ferrari and Mira Schendel are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter: the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and gestures, and language as a metaphor of the worldly […]

When we think of sculpture, we think of physical descriptors—terms like mass, weight, extension, and surface area. We envision objects that take up space and occupy three measurable dimensions. From the mammoth to the miniscule, the figural to the architectural, we all know that sculpture takes up space. But just how it goes about occupying […]

Gong Jian: What was the motivation for these works you’ve brought to the exhibition? Huang Yang: There are three elements: first, it is a continuation of the methods used in my previous work Bible, but adding sound and form. Second, it is a small appreciation of things in everyday life, specifically the whistle that sounds […]

Mona Jensen: The Orientalist discourse was pinpointed by the Palestinian American professor and literary theorist, Edward Said. In his book Orientalism from 1978 he argued that since the 19th century, the West has reduced the cultures of the East into a mythical Orient. By distinguishing sharply between the West and the East, the West defined […]

Joseph-Francis Sumegné came to sculpture after having passed by painting, the work of copper in jewelry and cutlery, the tapestry, and basket making. Sumegné made his writing, Jalaa, a sum of all these techniques put at the service of a true transmutation of waste and rejects, which constitute the essence of his raw material. Didier […]

The Bud was inspired by the different roles each individual plays in society and in their personal life. The ropes give viewers a raw feeling, something that is original, not modified, and primary. The iron in the piece creates tension, symbolizes threats, and serves as a warning of danger. Rosin, sugarcoating the sculptures, making them […]