Beijing Huantie Time Art Museum, 2011

Solo Show [Happy Accident – The Artwork of Ming Ren]

The Opening Reception on November 30, 2011

Hundreds of guests participated the Opening Reception. VIP guest included Dr. Roger Mandle, Former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art, Dr. Tony Jones, Chancellor of the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Prof. Jin Shangyi, Chairmen of the National Artist Association of China, Prof. Pan Gongkai, President of the Central Avademy of Fine Arts, Prof. Xu Jiang, President of China Academy of Art, Prof. Wei Ershen, President of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Dr. Jeannene Przyblyski, Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, Dr. Toyomi Hoshina, Vice President of Tokyo University of Art, Prof. Steve Beal, President of California College of Art and Design, and etc.

Dr. Roger Mandle, Former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art

Prof. Xu Jiang, President of China Academy of Art

Video The Opening Reception

Dr. Tony Jones, Chancellor of the School of Art Institute of Chicago

Prof. Wei Ershen, President of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts

Prof. Pan Gongkai, President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Prof. Jin Shangyi, Chairman of the National Artist Association of China

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group Show [No Room For Form] 798 SZ Art Center, Beijing, China, 2014

No Room for Form 

“Now what shall we call this new sort of gazing-house that has opened in our town where people sit quietly and pour out their glancing like light, like answering?”   Jelaluddin Rumi, No Room for Form *

Seeking as we all do some sort of reassurance of the eternal, in the poem, No Room for Form, the 13th century poet Rumi has drafted an elegantly complex but simple reminder of the ways we come to “know” the way to personal salvation.  In similar ways, the four artists in this exhibition portray their own confidence in the eternal values of humanity through their work.  Each painting by each artist expresses his search for the peace and beauty of resolution through risk.  As different as each artist’s work is from the others in this exhibition, there is a familial materiality about the techniques that are used, and the abstract forms that portray their quest.  The body of works by each artist represent their own “gazing house that opened in our town” as we encounter them “pouring out their glancing like light, like answering(.)”  see more

Curator: Dr. Roger Mandle, (1914-2020), Former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art