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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NanHai Art presents:
Body, Self, and Identity: Stella Zhang and Hong Chun Zhang
Exhibition Dates: July 27 – August 30, 2019
Opening Reception: July 27, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
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NanHai Art is pleased to present Body, Self, and Identity: Stella Zhang and Hong Chun Zhang, a duo exhibition featuring the art of Stella Zhang and Hong Chun Zhang, artists both graduated from the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in their native China and had rigorous training in CAFA’s affiliated high School prior to entering college, both further pursued art studies overseas (Stella Zhang received MFA from Tokyo Art University in Tokyo, Japan; Hong Chun Zhang received MFA from University of California, Davis), and now live and work in their adopted home, the United States. While both artists’ work is about female (and sometimes also male in Stella’s works) bodies, self, and identity, they approach their art with distinctive practices reveal distinctive artistic languages. This exhibition thoughtfully juxtaposes the clear, strong, feminist statements of Stella Zhang’s work, and the intimate and sensual hair drawings of Hong Chun Zhang. The exhibition will be open on July 27th at 4pm. Both a
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Yesterday, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) invited Hong Chun Zhang, a Chinese-born and Kansas-based artist, to the Visual Arts Center to discuss her piece “The Eye of the Tornado.” The work features a spiral of Zhang’s hair drawn in Chinese ink on Alcantara fabric, a type of durable synthetic Italian textile she started using instead of the more fragile medium of paper. BCMA Curator Casey Braun added Zhang’s piece into the exhibition “Threads: Artists Weave Their Worlds” in an attempt to push the boundaries of what constitutes textile art.
Both BCMA Co-Director Anne Collins Goodyear and Braun had met or worked with Zhang before bringing her to Bowdoin. Goodyear was a curator at the Smithsonian Institution more than a decade ago, where Zhang’s work was being shown at the time, and Zhang was on the advisory council at the University of Kansas’s Spencer Museum of Art while Braun worked there.
“One of the reasons we love her work so much is it really accommodates so many different perspectives. I think there are many points of entry into [Zhang]’s work,” Goodyear said. “[Zhang], in very interesting ways, is playing with a lexicon of artistic languages. She is well known for her excellence in the tradition of Chinese ink painting and these beautiful