Wei Jia: Good Times

Fou Gallery x Chambers Fine Art

Fou: June 19–August 22, 2021 | Chambers: June 24–August 13, 2021

Curator: Lynn Hai 

Fou Open House: June 26&27, 2021, 3–6pm; Location: 410 Jefferson Ave #1, Brooklyn, NY 11221

Chambers Open House: June 24, 2021, 3–6pm; Location: 55 East 11th St, 5th Fl, New York, NY 10003

NEW YORK - Fou Gallery is pleased to announce that we will be presenting Wei Jia's latest solo exhibition Good Times with Chambers Fine Art (New York). This is Wei Jia’s 17th solo exhibition in the United States. This exhibition will present representative works by Wei Jia from 2018 to 2021, marking another milestone in his artistic career as he continues to break new ground in creativity.

Since his teenage years, Wei Jia has immersed himself in traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy and poetry and has kept a true appreciation and enthusiasm for them. With a special love for Chinese handmade paper, he has been exploring and presenting the beauty of this material in his works since 1991. His works reveal the serendipity, time, and non-repetition of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, as well as the judgment and decision of the moment of creation, which he attributes to attaining the state of "wandering in the arts" as described in the Analects of Confucius, that is - he becomes “naturally immersed in art”.

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Design: Yizhi Liu / Text: Lynn Hai

Design: Yizhi Liu / Text: Lynn Hai

 

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Artist - WEI JIA (b.1957, Beijing, China)

Wei Jia practiced traditional calligraphy, Chinese painting and poetry from an early stage. Wei graduated with a B.F.A from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (1984) and M.F.A. from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (1987). He currently works and lives in New York and Beijing. Wei has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Central Academy of Fines Arts (Beijing), National Museum of Art (Beijing), CU Art Museum University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, U.S.A.), Lincoln Center (New York), etc. His recent shows include The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019); Blurred Boundaries, New York School of Interior Design Gallery, New York (2018); Wei Jia: Recent Work, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia (2017). In 2021, he will hold his 17th solo exhibition Good Times both at Fou Gallery and Chambers Fine Art (New York).

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