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Chinese Culture Center

April 8 - April 8, 2011

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White Ink: Abstract Ink Works White Ink No. 1 by Zheng Chongbin
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco continues its annual Xian Rui (‘fresh’ and ‘sharp’) exhibition series with White Ink, a highly anticipated, site-specific installation of abstract ink paintings by Bay Area artist Zheng Chongbin. The 15 new, large-scale works demonstrate why Zheng’s profoundly contemporary approach to ink has been hailed as unprecedented. According to scholar and curator of contemporary Chinese art, Britta Erickson, “He has opened a door whose existence was hitherto unsuspected.” Zheng Chongbin was tutored in ink painting by Mu Yilin (born 1942)—himself a student of the great Shanghai school painters Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997) and Cheng Shifa (born 1921)—and Chen Jialing (born 1937). In 1984, Zheng graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou (now the China National Academy of Fine Arts), where he specialized in figure painting. Following graduation he taught at the academy for four years and then emigrated to the United States, earning his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991 where he was school’s first international fellow. His works have most recently been shown at Haines Gallery (San Francisco) and as part of the exhibition Shanghai at the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco) and have shown in numerous exhibitions around the world. He maintains a home in San Rafael, CA and a studio in Shanghai.