Ping Zheng: Go Out Into Nature
The gallery is thrilled to announce its fifth solo exhibition of paintings on paper by Ping Zheng. The exhibition includes sixteen new works made with oil sticks, in a range of colors and textures. The paintings expand upon the artist's iconic language of landscape imagery depicted through bold, geometric forms. Always exploring new approaches to applying oil stick to paper, within this exhibition Zheng has also increased the scale of her works, with the addition of larger paintings in rectangular and elongated formats.
Over the past year, Zheng created the lush new paintings on view. Her works are a joyful celebration of her deep love of nature, female empowerment, and the ongoing search for a broad sense of spirituality beyond the earthly. In her own words,
On the one hand, living in this fast-growing technology world, going out in nature, it heals the mind and soul, it enables individuals to communicate their thoughts, emotions and insights. To me, it's like a mother taking good care of a child. On the other hand, reflection on nature appears in my art often. I see nature and females as symbolic representations of the infinite universe and the cycles of life.
Triangular forms, which for Zheng also relate to the female anatomy, appear to extend into infinity. They reflect upon each other as symmetrical mountains and pyramids, sailboats, and portals opening the way onto an unexplored dimension. Curving bands of stylized colors join together in a constant loop, suggesting waterfalls and rainbows with an unending energy flow. Her works visualize the artist's search for strength, calm, and freedom, both in nature and in art.
