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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present the US-debut solo of the Chinese, Berlin-based artist Evian Wenyi Zhang.
The unique pictorial practice of Evian Wenyi Zhang seeks to address contemporary image consumption. Deploying a special technique that isolates and repeats instances of specific, enigmatic imagery, Zhang depicts these instances on small discrete canvases, which are then arranged into a grid. The paintings in this exhibition are made with airbrush and accompanied by framed photographs which do not consist of source material, but rather quasi-abstract corollaries thereof, functioning like pendants on the paintings.
Vacillating between the forensic and obsessive, Zhang’s analytical approach to images brings up everything from historical cubism to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up to the photographic collages of David Hockney, not to mention Roland Barthes’ idea of the punctum. It is as if she has zeroed in on the punctums of a given photo, circumscribed them, and then repeated…
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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present the US-debut solo of the Chinese, Berlin-based artist Evian Wenyi Zhang.
The unique pictorial practice of Evian Wenyi Zhang seeks to address contemporary image consumption. Deploying a special technique that isolates and repeats instances of specific, enigmatic imagery, Zhang depicts these instances on small discrete canvases, which are then arranged into a grid. The paintings in this exhibition are made with airbrush and accompanied by framed photographs which do not consist of source material, but rather quasi-abstract corollaries thereof, functioning like pendants on the paintings.
Vacillating between the forensic and obsessive, Zhang’s analytical approach to images brings up everything from historical cubism to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up to the photographic collages of David Hockney, not to mention Roland Barthes’ idea of the punctum. It is as if she has zeroed in on the punctums of a given photo, circumscribed them, and then repeated…
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