Dai Ying, a luminary in the realm of contemporary painting

Chinese-born multidiscipline world-renowned artist Dai Ying, a luminary in the realm of contemporary painting, instillations, and performance art, weaves intricate narratives of tradition and feminist-inspired innovation through her captivating creations. Presently residing in New York, Los Angeles, and Beijing, Dai Ying recently showed at New York’s Future Fair at Chelsea Industrial in tandem with the Frieze New York earlier this month and additionally partnered with the Pashmina Art Gallery in Hamburg, Germany where she will be donating some works of art for their Louis Vuitton and Dior sponsored art auction which will benefit the rescue of Asian street dogs. She next has a solo show later this month in Beijing, China.

Born in the rural village of Emei Mountain, Sichuan, China, Dai Ying developed a profound connection with the rich cultural heritage of her homeland from an early age. Surrounded by the poetic beauty of Chinese landscapes and the profound philosophy of ink painting, she began creating her own work at the age of 5, drawing inspiration from the classical ink masters while infusing her work with a fresh perspective. Dai pursued her academic interests at the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, participating in Associate Fellows programs. Her artistic journey took her across continents, where she immersed herself in the vibrant tapestry of global art scenes, gaining insights and inspiration from encounters with different cultures and perspectives. She began working on her ongoing and evolving painting series M Theory, which is a philosophical interpretation of the origin of the universe – with bright color and round shapes symbolizing a woman’s womb and the creation of life, creating the perfect balance of theoretical beliefs and innate feelings.  She moved to New York in 2011 to fully pursue her passion for art, but was pulled back to China in 2017 when her father became terminally ill. He was a lifelong construction worker and Dai unexpectedly found solace in exploring a local construction site which reminded her of the happiest times of her childhood, visiting her father at his work. It was here where she found her inspiration for her acclaimed exhibition In Memory of Forgotten at the Today Art Museum in Beijing (2020), as well as her installation pieces Look At Me and Temple which included scraps of trash and forgotten construction site materials left over from residential buildings that were destroyed by the Chinese government to make way for industry. Dai wanted a focus on the unseen lives that were inevitably left forever disrupted and changed by the new development, and connected to this feeling as an outsider herself growing up in a rural community away from the big city. In 2023, she delved into performance art, circling back on her roots of Origin and tapping into the Chinese philosophy that life is born from earth and as we die, we regenerate back to earth. With her show Suddenly Moon White, Dai sat in a mound of dirt and continuously dug through it with her hands – symbolizing both the death and search for her father, and also the futile use of her actions. In No Dust to be Wiped, she asked a diaspora of 108 (a symbolic number in Buddhism) audience members that had been displaced, to bring a jar of soil from their homeland. The concept was again connected back to mother earth and our birth origins, while also connecting with others to create a sense of belonging and community.  Dai Ying has exhibited her works globally, including Huguo Guanyin Temple in Beijing (2023), Guo Yunlou Cultural and Art Center in Suzhou (2023), Beijing (2021), the Today Art Museum in Beijing (2020), Asian Fusion Gallery in New York. She has also been featured in group exhibitions at venues such as Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum (Xi’an, China), Ruotong Gallery (Shenzhen, China), YOUNG Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Taoxichuan Art Museum (Jingdezhen, China), Kommunale Galerie (Berlin, Germany), Pasadena Convention Center (Los Angeles, CA), and World Trade Center (Baltimore, MD), among others. Dai Ying's art has been recognized in publications such as “Chinese Morphological Expressionism” (Xi’an, China, 2024), “Chinese Female Art” (Beijing, China, 2020), “Asia Art” (New York, NY, 2015) and “DAILY NEWS” (New York, NY, 2015). She has received numerous honors and awards, including Outstanding Artist Awards from the World Art Center and Asia Art Funds, and Great Achievements Award from the United Nations Artists Association. Dai has served on the board of directors at the Asia Art Funds and has been a researcher with the World Art Center since 2015. Central to Dai Ying's artistic vision is her deep reverence for nature and humanity, and its immutable rhythms. Drawing inspiration from the ever-changing seasons and the transient beauty of the natural world, she imbues her works with a sense of serenity and contemplation, inviting viewers to pause and reflect on the interconnectedness of all things. Beyond her achievements as a visual artist, Dai Ying is also a passionate advocate for cultural exchange and an advocate for women’s rights and empowerment, seeing herself as a juxtapose of feminine energy and emotions alongside masculine power and revolutionary ideas. Through workshops, lectures, and community outreach programs, she seeks to inspire the next generation of artists and foster a deeper appreciation for the beauty and diversity of global artistic traditions. As she continues to push the boundaries of her craft, Dai Ying remains steadfast in her commitment to exploring new horizons and pushing the limits of artistic expression.

Upcoming Italian Cultural Of Chicago Institute's music concerts schedule this month

View this email in your browser Music Italian Surf Accademy Live Concert Saturday, May 11 at 9:00pm CT Hungry Brain, Chicago Tickets   ITALIAN SURF ACADEMY is a trio leaded by New York based guitarist Marco Cappelli, featuring bassist Damon Banks and drummer Dave Miller. The band plays a blend of Spaghetti Western, Exotica and Tex Mex, marinated in vintage Italian sauce. One third of the night will be dedicated to their album Barbarella Reloaded – a surf reinterpretation of the iconic 1968 Barbarella soundtrack’s- followed by the suite Morricone is Dissolving, written and performed by poet Denver Butson, who will be joining the band as special guest. Echoes of Mario Bava horror B-movies mixed with Martin Danny’s Hawaiian sound will be heard in the last part of the concert, taken by their last album Fake Worlds. Puccini, My Love Live Concert Thursday, May 30 at 8:00pm CT Fulton Street Collective, Chicago Register   REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Giacomo Puccini, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago in collaboration with Fulton Street Collective, presents the live concert Puccini, My love performed by Danielle di Majo (sax) and Manuela Pasqui (piano).  The evergreen melodies of one of the most important and influential opera composers of all time tie to the sensitivity of two modern improvisers. The concert is a tribute to Puccini, an avant-garde composer who, at the turn of two centuries, represented the Italian Opera. Become a Member Learn Italian with Us! https://iicchicago.esteri.it/IIC_Chicago/en/ iicchicago@esteri.it #italianculturalinstuite#fineartmagazine#fineartfun

STEVEN ZEVITAS GALLERY: TRAVIS MCEWEN: A Crepuscular Garden Ends Sat May 11, 2024

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Final Days: TRAVIS MCEWEN: A Crepuscular Garden March 22 - May 11, 2024 

Steven Zevitas Gallery is pleased to present Travis McEwen’s solo exhibition, A Crepuscular Garden. The exhibition will be on view from March 22 to May 11, 2024. A Crepuscular Garden consists of twenty-three paintings made by McEwen over the past five years. This body of work speaks to Queer experiences of isolation and explores the ways in which escapism and worldbuilding can not only offer solace, but ultimately lead to new ways of understanding. In A Crepuscular Garden, McEwen thoughtfully constructs “futuristic” environments inhabited by humans and flora; they are nurturing spaces that beg to be explored.  McEwen has a deep interest in the visual aesthetics and motifs of science-fiction, which has long been a fertile site and a space to imagine other ways of being (the works of Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, and Ursula K Le Guin are of particular importance to him). We see this impulse, perhaps most dramatically, in the familiar, yet otherworldly light that permeates the expanses of desert, and other barren ecosystems, that McEwen depicts. McEwen’s previous work consisted of desolate vistas without any sign of life; they were bleak landscapes restrained by desertification and ecological collapse. In A Crepuscular Garden we find both life and hope. Semi-arid, arid, and otherwise inhospitable spaces teem with flora, biodiversity and the promise that adaptation is both possible and inevitable. McEwen has turned away from bleak dystopias and toward something more optimistic. For him, Queer resilience can blossom like flora, and these paintings longingly embrace the nascent hope of what may not yet exist. Even in an environment of apparent collapse or abandonment, there is still space to care and things to be tended to.

Travis McEwen (b. 1985, Edmonton, Canada) lives and works in Santa Cruz, CA. He earned an MFA from Concordia University (Montreal, QC) and a BFA from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB). Recent solo exhibitions have been hosted by dc3 Art Projects (Edmonton, AB) and Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis, MN). He was included in Future Station: 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton, AB). He has participated in many group exhibitions with Latitude 53 (Edmonton, AB), Galerie La Centrale Powerhouse (Montreal, QC), and Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, NB), among others. He has a forthcoming solo exhibition in 2024 with Neon Heater (Findlay, OH). Additionally, he has work in the Senvest Collection of Contemporary Canadian Art. He was a lecturer at the University of Minnesota from 2014-2023 and currently is a lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz. This is the artist’s first exhibition with Steven Zevitas Gallery.

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The Lehman College Art Department: THESIS EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, May 15 5 pm - 8 pm

2024 THESIS EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, May 15 5 pm - 8 pm The Lehman College Art Department is proud to present this year’s MFA, MA and BFA Thesis exhibition in collaboration with the Lehman College Art Gallery.  This year’s exhibition showcases thesis work by graduates and undergraduates. Each student’s presentation represents a year-long, creative investigation in collaboration with a faculty mentor. A spectrum of disciplines reflective of our undergraduate and graduate areas of study will be represented, including painting, animation, printmaking, bookmaking, installation, performance, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, design, and original comics. This year, the thesis work of our graduating students explores a broad array of individual experiences alongside political and social issues of urgency today facing their communities. RSVP Tickets The gallery's exhibitions are supported by the Charina Foundation, Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Medora Bross Geary and John Geary Family Foundation, Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Art as a Third Dimension, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York State Council on the Arts

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Drawings at the OMNI Gallery.Cathleen Ficht and Dawn Lee, Lorena Salcedo Watson May 19, 3-5 Opening

 

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MC2GALLERY THANKS YOU FOR VISITING CASPER FAASSEN'S SOLO SHOW AT “THE FAIR”

MC2GALLERY THANKS YOU FOR VISITING CASPER FAASSEN'S SOLO SHOW AT “THE FAIR”

A look at Casper Faassen's work as a whole reveals that themes such as transience, beauty and feminine splendor form the basis of his work. For Faassen, working with dancers and exploring movement in space is a constant theme in his artistic work. Over the last two years, in close collaboration with dancer Madoka Kariya, he has developed his new series "Void". Through this collaboration he seeks to translate Kariya's understanding of space through dance into his photography. He approaches the viewer and moves away. What is revealed to him is as important as what is hidden from him. Fascinated by Japanese philosophy, he explores the theme of "Ma" through landscapes and movement studies. “But” is understood as the space between, which does not separate but connects. “The juxtaposition between the eternal and the temporal, beauty and decay, appearance and disappearance is my main theme.” All painters and photographers have the ability to stop time and capture a single moment. Faassen highlights that moment by adding a temporal element – not necessarily using literal references to vanitas but through the manipulation of materials. The use of craquelure is its symbol of time and introduces a visual element as it is oil paint and therefore sharp, contrasting with the rest of the blurry image. Most of the distance is created by the way the photo is taken, through an opaque medium. He prints the image on the same opaque support giving a further sense of distance. “What I also like about craquelure is the texture it gives to the surface or leather. The work becomes more material, more substantial, aiming for painting instead of photography and thus encouraging a different way of perceiving the work." Characteristic of Faassen's works is his continuous innovative approach to materials, techniques and disciplines. In addition to painting and graphic art, Faassen dedicates much of his time to the photographic medium. It is in his photographic work that we recognize the Leiden painters who inspired him. His signature works depict classic 17th- century themes such as cityscapes, vanitas paintings, and flower arrangements.

Casper's unique style, which mixes photography and painted layers in his work and juxtaposes subject (beauty) with form (decay), has won praise from critics and the public. His work has been exhibited at numerous international art fairs such as AIPAD New York, Photo London, Unseen, PAN Amsterdam and Photo Basel, where he won the ALPA award in 2019. His work is featured in private and public collections such as Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem), Museum de Lakenhal (Leiden), Haagsch Historisch Museum and Royal Netherlands Library (The Hague). Recently, the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm and the Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis in Leiden have hosted solo exhibitions of Faassen's work. His "View of the Hague" and "View of Dordrecht" were displayed alongside Jan van Goyen's original masterpieces in the Historical Museum of the Hague and the Dordrecht Museum respectively.

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The Studio Museum in Harlem is pleased to announce the appointment of Natasha L. Logan as its Chief Program Officer.

Studio Museum in Harlem Appoints  Natasha L. Logan as Chief Program Officer  New Role Will Bridge Programming Efforts Across Curatorial, Learning and Engagement, and Collection and Exhibitions Management  Natasha L. Logan. Photo: Nicholas Parakas

HARLEM, NEW YORK, NY, May 8, 2024  The Studio Museum in Harlem is pleased to announce the appointment of Natasha L. Logan as its Chief Program Officer. Logan will take up her new role on May 8, 2024, working directly with Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden, senior leadership, and colleagues across the institution to spearhead strategic direction for exhibition and program initiatives that support the institution's mission and funding goals.     Logan arrives at the Studio Museum at a transformative moment in its fifty-six-year history. The Studio Museum’s new home, currently under construction on New York’s West 125th Street, is the first building in its history devised for the needs of the institution and boasts expansive exhibition, education, and public programming space. Considering the Museum’s increased capacity for mission-focused initiatives, Logan will develop and implement cohesive and comprehensive program strategies that will unify the goals of the Museum’s Curatorial, Learning and Engagement, and Collection and Exhibitions Management departments, serving as a key collaborator between the Museum and the artists and communities at its core. Logan will also assist in the management of the Museum’s indispensable permanent collection, functioning as operations liaison for all acquisitions, loans, and conservation efforts. And, in alignment with the Museum’s longstanding reputation as the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally, Logan will cultivate the Museum’s new and ongoing relationships with peer museums, curators, and arts workers across the globe.    Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden said, “I am thrilled to welcome Natasha to the Studio Museum in Harlem. Natasha is a proven leader who approaches the cultural sphere with enthusiastic collaboration and innovative vision. As we embark on a new era, I am confident her breadth of experience and deep commitment to uplifting artists’ voices will greatly advance the Museum’s dynamic programming initiatives.”  Logan said, “I am delighted to join the team at the Studio Museum in Harlem during this pivotal, legacy-affirming, and future-oriented moment. I am excited to collaborate to realize programs and exhibitions aligned with a mission that is so meaningful to me personally and professionally.”    Logan joins the Studio Museum from Creative Time, where she most recently served as Deputy Director, and where she played a critical role in producing major commissions and securing new partnerships. While there, Logan produced more than a dozen large-scale public commissions, including Charles Gaines’s Moving Chains(2022–23); Rashid Johnson’s Red Stage (2021); Kamala Sankaram’s The Last Stand(2021); Jenny Holzer’s VIGIL (2019); and Duke Riley’s Fly by Night (2016). She also realized projects by many others, including Pedro Reyes, Allison Janae Hamilton, Jill Magid, Sophie Calle, and Phil Collins. Working in tandem with curators, she also developed a constellation of initiatives focused on transforming the art and culture fields, including the Creative Time Think Tank; R&D Fellowship; and CTHQ, a gathering space for art and politics.     Prior to joining Creative Time, Logan managed projects for respected artists across film, art, and interactive technology, facilitating their emergent ideas and practices. Notably, she led Hank Willis Thomas’s studio for five years, developing collaborative initiatives including Question Bridge: Black Males (2012) and In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth) (2011).     Logan obtained a degree in English and African American Studies from the University of Virginia before starting her career at New York University. There, she eventually assumed the role of Assistant Director of Career Development at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she supported hundreds of emerging artists and solidified a deep commitment to cultivating and elevating artists' voices.  About the Studio Museum in Harlem  Founded in 1968 by a diverse group of artists, community activists, and philanthropists, the Studio Museum in Harlem is internationally known for its catalytic role in promoting the work of artists of African descent. The Studio Museum is now constructing a new home at its longtime location on Manhattan’s West 125th Street. The building—the first created expressly for the institution’s program—will enable the Studio Museum to better serve a growing and diverse audience, provide additional educational opportunities for people of all ages, expand its program of world-renowned exhibitions, effectively display its singular collection, and strengthen its trailblazing Artist-in-Residence program.  While the Museum is closed for construction, its groundbreaking exhibitions, thought-provoking conversations, and engaging art-making workshops continue at a variety of partner and satellite locations in Harlem and beyond. For more information, visit studiomuseum.org.   Find us on Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube: @studiomuseum  #studiomuesumharlem#fineartmagazine#fineartfun

Derosia exhibits In Practice: Covey Gong SculptureCenter, Queens, NY, May 9–June 17, 2024, Opening Reception: May 7, 2024, 6–8pm

 

 

In Practice: Covey Gong

SculptureCenter, Queens, NY

May 9–June 17, 2024

Opening Reception: May 7, 2024, 6–8pm

 

Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1991-92. Photo: Hans Fahrmeyer. Copyright Metropolitan Opera Archives.

 

Covey Gong’s work is attuned to “fluctuating relationships between material goods, passing from novelty to familiarity,” in the artist’s words. His recent sculpture has intricately taken stock of such transformations of the everyday via abstract metal armatures, disused fabrics, and extra lengths of thread. Building on an artistic interest in the life cycles of objects, Gong’s work at SculptureCenter expands to a broader perspective on global cultural artifacts and the transpositions of difference achieved through scenography, architecture, decoration, and the costumed body. His new sculptures take as their subject the 1924-26 Giacomo Puccini opera Turandot and the worldwide manifestations of its ornamented, imaginary imperial China over the last century.

 

 

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In Practice is made possible by the Elaine Graham Weitzen Commissioning Fund for Emerging Artists, which supports the production of new work by artists selected from SculptureCenter's annual open call. This landmark endowment established in 2024 reflects Elaine Graham Weitzen’s (1920-2017) lifelong commitment to emerging artists and her exuberant support of new ideas in art. Weitzen served as a devoted Trustee of SculptureCenter from 1987 to 2017.

Major support for the In Practice program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In Practice is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

 

 

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