UIC Exhibition: Many Years After, On a Sunny Afternoon
@ Art Lounge, Student Center West, UIC
828 South Wolcott, Chicago,Illinois
Opening Thursday, February 16th, from 4 PM - 7 PM
On view through Thursday, March 15th
University of Illinois at Chicago Art Exhibition 2012
Many Years After, On a Sunny Afternoon
Painting by: Zhenlei Jiang
Poem by: Chris Wright
Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, Amsterdam, Chicago. From East to West, Asian American artist Ms. Zhenlei Jiang brings the viewer an impressionistic feminine journal from a typical young woman’s life and memory. Among her memories transfigured through art are her holding her mother’s hand on the way to her first day of school, her teenage dream of being a princess, then her first kiss, her pregnancy years later and subsequent motherhood, and her rebirth after a broken relationship and enjoyment of new love. From “First Day of School,” “Enchanted Kiss,” and “The Princess and the Peacock,” to “Blue Angel” and “Lover,” this exhibit embodies appreciation of the feminine experience and, more generally, contemplation of our universal humanity. Set from East to West, these paintings show the rich self-consciousness, the path to self-knowledge, of an Asian American. Poems from American writer Mr. Chris Wright have been paired to each painting to create a dialogue with the images, and to enhance the psychological and cultural meanings of this solo exhibition from the perspective of a Western male. So, on a sunny afternoon, the artists invite you, whether man or woman, young or old, to attend this exhibit, to taste the bitter sweetness of the past and know the present in a new light.
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