Celebrate the West Hollywood opening of \u2018Zhang Enli\u2019 featuring a live performance.<\/p>\n
On the occasion of the opening night of \u2018Zhang Enli,\u2019 the artist\u2019s first solo presentation on the West Coast, join us for a live musical performance by violinist Amelia Sze.<\/p>\n
Drawing on both Eastern and Western traditions, Zhang pushes toward a looser visual language in order to reveal abstraction\u2019s power to communicate the human condition. Sze\u2019s performance within the exhibition will seek to echo and deepen the atmosphere and emotional resonance of Zhang\u2019s new works, fostering a contemplative dialogue between sound, gesture, and abstraction.<\/p>\n
Signed copies of the new exhibition publication, featuring a survey of Zhang\u2019s artistic evolution over the past two decades, will also be available during the reception.<\/p>\n
Please join us before and after the performance for the opening reception from 6 \u2013 8 pm. This event is free to attend, however, reservations are recommended.<\/p>\n
About the exhibition
Zhang Enli has used painting to document the more prosaic aspects of contemporary life\u2014everyday objects, interiors and individuals\u2014since his arrival on the Shanghai art scene in the 1990s. The exhibition presents a new body of abstract portraits and marks the artist\u2019s first solo presentation on the West Coast. While anchored in figuration and paired with descriptive titles, the works convey the essence of their subjects via evocation. Drawing on both Eastern and Western traditions, Zhang pushes toward a looser visual language in order to reveal abstraction\u2019s power to communicate the human condition<\/p>\n
About Amelia Sze
Amelia earned a bachelor\u2019s degree at The Juilliard School studying with Li Lin. Awards include semifinalist in the Stradivarius International Violin Competition and First Prize in the Classics Alive National Young Artists Competition. Amelia played in Tom Cipullo’s \u2019Bonfire Opera\u2018 at the Music Academy in 2022.<\/p>\n
About the publication
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the artist\u2019s work at our West Hollywood gallery, this elegantly designed publication explores the last two decades of Zhang Enli\u2019s celebrated practice, culminating in his most recent paintings.<\/p>\n
Beginning in the 1990s with the artist\u2019s striking portraits of human figures, ‘Zhang Enli’ traces the development of the artist\u2019s work through the evocative object studies of the 2000s and early 2010s to the captivating abstract portraits that continue to occupy him today, including new paintings produced for our Los Angeles exhibition. An illuminating essay by curator Sook Kyung-Lee guides readers through Zhang\u2019s artistic evolution, illustrated by a generous selection of artwork reproductions that showcase the extraordinary lyricism of the artist\u2019s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrate the West Hollywood opening of \u2018Zhang Enli\u2019 featuring a live performance. On the occasion of the opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64645,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-336488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-art-shows-galleries","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}