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The Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University will host Chinese artist Gaopeng Pan for a lecture/demonstration of Chinese landscape painting on March 21, 2018, at the University’s Power Art Gallery on 25 Power Avenue in Wayne from 2 to 4 p.m. The lecture/demonstration is in conjunction with Pan’s exhibition, “The Heart Explains Everything: Chinese Paintings Exhibition by Gaopeng Pan,” from March 21 to April 2 at the New York Gallery of Chinese Art located at 91a Allen Street in Manhattan. The exhibition, with lecture and demonstration, is jointly organized with the Jiangsu Chinese Culture Promotion Society, China Taizhou College and the New York Gallery of Chinese Art.
A well-known landscape painter, Pan is a National Artist and a member of the Chinese Artists Association. He received the Golden Award at the Grand Jiangsu Landscape Paintings Exhibition, and his works are in the permanent collections of the Jiangsu Art Museum, Zhongnanhai, in Beijing, and the National Art Museum of China, also in Beijing.
Hui Shang, chief editor of China Fine Arts, comments that Pan’s landscape paintings feature northern mountains and rivers in China with the subjective spirit of the northern nature. His images transform greyscale ink, stacked and layered, into seemingly thousands of mountain peaks. Through his imagination, Pan depicts a boundless, desolate, primitive world where human beings have never set foot, but also a psychological state in which people still find themselves rootless, lonely and cold in a prosperous postmodern society. His mysterious landscape paintings have thus become a symbol of spiritual and psychological space, revealing the living circumstances of people in contemporary society.
For more information about the lecture/demonstration or the exhibition, contact the Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University: 973.720.2799, ccart@wpunj.edu, or wpunj.edu/ccart. For more information about the New York Gallery of Chinese Art, is available at 212.574.4407, nygca@gmail.com, or nygca.com.
