American Art Collector Issue 197, March 2022

INSIDE WOMEN ARTISTS • FLORALS & BOTANICALS • RIMI YANG • ART LOVER’S GUIDE TO COLORADO MARCH 2022 ISSUE 197 AMERICAN COLLECTOR

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LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHERS MARCH 2022 / MONTHLY For Serious Scan for ADOLFO CASTILLO / Publisher: Editorial/Creative Collectors VIDEO [email protected] WENDIE MARTIN / Publisher: Welcome to our March issue! This issue has a great lineup Scan the Icons Advertising/Art Community Development for our serious collectors. You will find several features Throughout This [email protected] dedicated to women artists. Their impact on realism art is ever- Issue to Watch VINCENT W. MILLER / Founder growing and we love celebrating it in our magazine. Executive editor Rochelle Belsito dives into these articles in her letter, Videos EDITORIAL which you can read when you turn the page. ROCHELLE BELSITO / Executive Editor Don't Have [email protected] Another major highlight is our Florals & Botanicals special A Scanner App? MICHAEL CLAWSON / Editor section. Each year these artists make the canvas of our pages [email protected] beautiful with colorful blooming images. This is one of our We recommend ALYSSA M. TIDWELL / Assistant Editor most anticipated issues of the year with the diverse artist SCANLIFE CHELSEA KORESSEL / Editorial Assistant showing. If you see a work of art you like, please reach Available on JOHN O’HERN / Santa Fe Editor out to the gallery that represents the artist and get more FRANCIS SMITH / Contributing Photographer information. Our job is to present great artists for your Android and IOS CASEY WOOLLARD / Editorial & Email Traffic Coordinator collections every month. Devices [email protected] Planning your travel? Our Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Get Social! ADVERTISING (866) 619-0841 Fine Art in Colorado tells all of us that Colorado galleries are LISA REDWINE / Senior Account Executive ready and waiting for you. Plan a trip to Colorado this year [email protected] and use our guide as your map to galleries on your journey. ANITA WELDON / Senior Account Executive [email protected] We have over 16 previews on gallery exhibitions from across HEATHER K. RASKIN / Senior Account Executive the country and a new collector home for you in our series. As [email protected] Adolfo and I peruse this issue before going to press, we can CONSTANCE WARRINER / Senior Account Executive feel the 2022 energy in the market. [email protected] MICHAEL BRIGHT / Senior Account Executive Enjoy, and we hope to see you at a gallery or event soon! [email protected] SKYE FALLON / Sponsorships & Major Accounts Sincerely, [email protected] Wendie Martin & Adolfo Castillo american MARKETING Publishers art collector ROBIN M. CASTILLO / Social Media Engagement Manager [email protected] collectart TRAFFIC @artmags JENNIFER SATTERLEE / Traffic Manager [email protected] ON THE COVER AmericanArt Collector PRODUCTION Amanda Greive, Penumbra, TONY NOLAN / Art Director oil on wood panel, 33 x 16\". Available DANA LONG / Production Artist at 33 Contemporary, Chicago, IL. LIZY BRAUTIGAM / Production Artist SUBSCRIPTIONS (877) 947-0792 EMILY YEE / Office Manager [email protected] APRIL STEWART / Accounts Receivable [email protected] Copyright © 2022. All material appearing in American Art Collector is copyright. Reproduction in whole or part is not permitted without permission in writing from the editor. Editorial contributions are welcome and should be accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope. All care will be taken with material supplied, but no responsibility will be accepted for loss or damage. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the editor or the publisher. The publisher bears no responsibility and accepts no liability for the claims made, nor for information provided by advertisers. Printed in the USA. American Art Collector 3260 N. Hayden Rd. Suites 201-203, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Telephone (480) 425-0806. Fax (480) 425-0724 or write to American Art Collector, P.O. Box 2320, Scottsdale, AZ 85252-2320 Single copies $8.95. Subscription rate for one year is $46. To place an order, change address or make a customer service query, please email [email protected] or write to P.O. Box 2320, Scottsdale, AZ 85252-2320. Periodicals postage rates paid at Scottsdale, AZ 85251, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send all address changes to American Art Collector, P.O. Box 2320, Scottsdale, AZ 85252-2320 AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR (ISSN 1547-7088) is published 12 times a year by International Artist Publishing Inc. CANADA: American Art Collector Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064408 Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to Express Messenger International PO Box 25058, London BRC, Ontario, Canada N6C 6A8 www.AmericanArtCollector.com 004

Daud Akhriev An Italian Accent: Solo Exhibition Rio de San Maurizio, Venice • 25.50 x 21.25 • oil on linen March 19th through April 30th 1261 Delaware Street | Denver, Colorado | 303.571.1261 | gallery1261.com

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Women in the Arts Get Social! T he March issue of American Art Collector is one that is a favorite for me because american it celebrates women in the arts with our annual Collector’s Focus: Women Artists. art collector We began this section five years ago—timed with Women’s History Month in the United States—as a way to spotlight these talented individuals and place them on a platform to collectart show the world they are creating relevant, diverse and important works of art. Along with this special section, we are also spotlighting the American Women Artists’ juried museum @artmags show Breaking Through: The Rise of American Women Artists. AmericanArt In 2017, American Women Artists started its 25 in 25 platform to exhibit works by women Collector artists in museums and help get their art into permanent collections of institutions. This year’s show will feature more than 100 paintings and sculptures, and you can see 13 of the pieces in our article on the show on page 147. Our Santa Fe editor, John O’Hern, has written an article on artist Rimi Yang, while contributor Michael Pearce spotlights three women artists who have become favorites among younger collectors. It’s exciting to see the range of artwork included, and I only hope to continue to push the boundaries of what we feature in this magazine. To create a place that spotlights diversity in art, and allows collectors to see a more complete story rather than just partial viewpoints. As always, I encourage you to look through the pages of the magazine and if something catches your eye inquire about the work. Happy collecting, Rochelle Belsito Executive Editor [email protected] 006 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com

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CONTENTS / MARCH 2022 50 Features 44 44 Rimi Yang: 64 Expressions of Beauty By John O’Hern 50 The Women’s Wave By Michael Pearce 56 New York State of Mind By John O’Hern Special Sections 64 Garden Delights Collector’s Focus: Florals & Botanicals 74 The Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Colorado Art Show Previews 38 Lighthouse ArtCenter’s 9th annual Plein Air Festival 147 American Women Artists’ Juried Exhibition Art Fair Preview 40 ART NOW FAIR 014 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com



CONTENTS / MARCH 2022 86 90 98 114 Upcoming Solo & Group Shows 86 100 108 120 Romeo, MI Palm Beach, FL Charlotte, NC Denver, CO SAMUEL K. WILSON REPRESENTATIONAL CURT BUTLER LEIGH ANN VAN FOSSAN ART TODAY & JAMES VAN FOSSAN Golden Gods On the Water Contemporary works of art From Sea to Sky 90 110 102 122 Chicago, IL Pratt, KS Milwaukee, WI Alexandria, VA AMANDA GREIVE CHARLES BAUGHMAN PETER BATCHELDER & OBJECTS AT REST Coming into Being LEYA EVELYN Transforming a Medium A three-artist show 94 Emotive Color 112 124 Los Angeles, CA 104 Palm Desert, CA Tucson, AZ CHRISTOPHER STOTT Santa Monica, CA MICHAEL STEIRNAGLE 30 YEARS OF ART Hidden Symbolism RICHARD BAKER Eye for Design Anniversary exhibition 96 Slices of Life 114 Artist Focus Fresno, CA 106 Edwards, CO 126 CATHRYNE TRACHOK DANIEL J. KEYS Berkeley, CA DEREK PENIX 127 J LOUIS Ephemeral Glow MICHELLE E. FILLMORE Temecula Sunrise 128 PALOMA HINOJOSA 98 Breaking Open 116 129 KEVIN BOX Denver, CO New York, NY 130 L.HUNT DAUD AKHRIEV A TOUCH OF ROMANCE Seeing Italy Artistic focus Coast-to-Coast Coverage Award Winner ARIZONA ILLINOIS 156 LOREN DIBENEDETTO Tucson Chicago Departments CALIFORNIA KANSAS Berkeley Pratt 32 CALENDAR Fresno 36 ART NEWS Los Angeles MICHIGAN Palm Desert Romeo Santa Monica NEW YORK COLORADO New York Denver Edwards NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte FLORIDA Palm Beach VIRGINIA Alexandria WISCONSIN Milwaukee 016 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com

Summer Garden Roses, 18x24\" pastel Daniel J. Keys EPHEMERAL Shakespeare’s 23rd sonnet: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, March 12th - March 26th So long lives this and this gives life to thee. A selection of new pastel paintings Artist Reception March 12th To view additional works or more information about the show please visit ZZZDVHQVHRISODFHƓQHDUWFRP. A Sense of Place Fine Art Gallery 559-392-6775 • [email protected] 2003 North Van Ness Blvd, Fresno, CA 93704

Najee Dorsey. Love of a Lifetime (detail) 2020. Mixed media on canvas. Michelle Monette Beasley. Joy (detail) 2021. Acrylic on canvas. A must-see show | Closes March 27, 2022 AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS COLLECTIVE 4525 Oak Street | Kansas City, MO Jason Wilcox. Survivor (detail) 2021. Acrylic, spray paint, Glenn A. N$oIrURthS,KJRrQ. L%FO0DFXNQOWHLYVHVU7VRH$(dIƓeQtaLWi\\l)2R0U21-R. VXiUsQuHa\\l7pRo$et&ryRUoQnHUD2ibIo7nKdH. acrylic paint marker, oil pastel, ink, tape, and fabric on canvas.



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MICHELLE COURIER The Mountains Whisper Knowingly, Acrylic on Canvas, Michelle Courier 48”x48” 720.483.1046 Westward Gallery 4400 Tennyson Street, Denver, Colorado 80212 www.westwardgallery.com

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SHOW CALENDAR March 3-6 March 18-20 Hector Ortega, Little Worries, fabricated steel and paint. Outsider Art Fair SculptureTucson Sculpture Festival Metropolitan Pavilion » New York, NY Show and Sale For its 30th anniversary, the Outsider Art Fair showcases self-taught artist work or Brandi Fenton Memorial art brut by approximately 65 exhibitors that Park » Tucson, AZ feature artists from around the world. www.outsiderartfair.com This annual festival offers prominent, juried sculpture March 4-6 works to the public, and features artists demonstra- Fountain Hills Fine Art & Wine Festival tions, music and food trucks. www.sculpturetucson.org Avenue of the Fountains » Fountain Hills, AZ Hosted by the Thunderbird Artists, this March 12-July 10 March 23-27 18th annual festival includes 125 juried fine artists from around the world and an array Alice Neel: People Come First Affordable Art Fair NYC of wine selections, entertainment and food. www.thunderbirdartists.com de Young Museum » San Francisco, CA Metropolitan Pavilion » New York, NY This is the first comprehensive West Coast More than 70 local, national and interna- March 4-26 retrospective of Neel’s radical, social justice tional galleries return to the Metropolitan inspired work, that includes paintings, Pavilion, displaying thousands of contem- 36th annual All Florida Juried Exhibit drawings and watercolors. porary artworks at accessible prices. deyoung.famsf.org www.affordableartfair.com Alliance for the Arts Center » Fort Myers, FL The Alliance for the Arts hosts their March 14 March 25-27 longest running exhibition, featuring a variety of media by artists from different 36th annual Academy of the Arts Dinner Tempe Festival of the Arts regions of Florida. www.artinlee.org Cipriani 42nd Street » New York, NY Downtown Tempe » Tempe, AZ Guild Hall Arts Center honors the many This annual festival boasts over 350 artists March 5 artists who have been important to their booths that display a variety of mediums, history, while also recognizing board styles and themes, and the event includes 40th annual California Cool Art Auction members Marty and Michele Cohen for musical entertainment, food trucks and beer their commitment and contributions. and wine gardens. Laguna Art Museum » Laguna Beach, CA www.guildhall.org www.tempefestivalofthearts.com The in-person auction event will feature over 100 California artists like Maria March 18-20 March 26-May 1 Bertran, Judy Chicago, Alex Couwenberg and Woods Davy. Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival 2020 Hindsight www.lagunaartmuseum.org Downtown Carefree » Carefree, AZ Bird Dog Arts » Tejon Ranch, CA March 6-August 14 Now in its 27th year, the festival features Organized by California Art Club, this 160 juried artworks from artists around the exhibition at Bird Dog Arts showcases a Joan Mitchell world, including the featured festival artist, diverse range of artworks that explore the jeweler Victor Yurivilca. personal changes we all went through due Baltimore Museum of Art » Baltimore, MD www.thunderbirdartists.com to the pandemic. This retrospective exhibition follows www.californiaartclub.org Mitchell’s career from her New York March 18-July 3 paintings in the 1950s, to her large-scale multi-panel works made in France. Shifting Perspectives: Landscape www.artbma.org Photographs from the Collection March 12-June 5 Milwaukee Art Museum » Milwaukee, WI This exhibition explores how our society Bascove: The Time We Spend with Words sees and understands the physical world through over 65 photographs pulled from Norman Rockwell Museum » Stockbridge, MA the museum’s collection. This museum celebrates the work of Anne www.mam.org Bascove, a master printmaker, illustrator, painter and collagist, in a series of original illustrations for literary works in their permanent collection. www.nrm.org 032 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com



SHOW CALENDAR March 25-August 14 On View NOW What Is Left Through March 5 Unspoken: Love 16th annual Wekiva Paint Out High Museum of Art » Atlanta, GA Wekiwa Spring State Park » Apopka, FL Over 70 contemporary www.wekivapaintout.com works in a variety of mediums, from 1987 to 2021, Through March 6 explores themes of love as a profound subject of critical Building a Legacy: commentary and how its Chrysler Collects for the Future expressed. www.high.org Chrysler Museum of Art » Norfolk, VA www.chrysler.org Tomashi Jackson, Is Anybody Gonna Be Saved? (1948 Middle of Voter Registration Line) (1965 Abernathy and King Watch the Signing of the Act), 2020, acrylic, pentelic marble. Ohio Underground Railroad site soil, American electoral ephemera, and Through March 6 paper bags on canvas and fabric, courtesy of the artist andTilton Gallery, NewYork. ©Tomashi Jackson. Photo: courtesy of the artist andTilton Gallery, NewYork. Commissioned by theWexner Center for the Arts atThe Ohio State University. 42nd annual Open Juried Show March 27-April 2 April 21-24 The Ridgewood Art Institute » Ridgewood, NJ www.ridgewoodartinstitute.org Plein Air Festival The Art of the Portrait Conference Through March 27 Lighthouse ArtCenter » Tequesta, FL Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead » This engaging art event is now in its Atlanta, GA Arizona Fine Art EXPO ninth year. It will showcase 30 of the The Portrait Society of America is back top plein air artists in the country, in person for their 24th annual confer- 26540 N. Scottsdale Road » Scottsdale, AZ and includes a Paint Out Competition, ence that will have demonstrations, www.arizonafineartexpo.com demos and workshops. exhibits, auctions, competitions and www.lighthousearts.org/pleinair workshops for artists looking to better Through March 27 their craft. March 27- July 10 www.portraitsociety.org Celebration of Fine Art Guarding the Art April 25-May 8 Hayden Road & Loop 101 » Scottsdale, AZ www.celebrateart.com Baltimore Museum of Art » Baltimore, MD Boston Design Week The BMA showcases work from their Through May 8 collection, from across eras, genres, Various Locations » Boston, MA cultures and mediums, that have been Now in its ninth year, this event occurs Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance selected by guest curators from the in various locations, including virtual museum’s security department. platforms, and features programs, guest Westmoreland Museum of www.artbma.org speakers, tours and panel discussions by American Art » Greensburg, PA design-oriented businesses, museums www.thewestmoreland.org March 31-April 3 and organizations, to name a few. www.bostondesignweek.com Through May 22 ART NOW FAIR / Salt Lake City Want to have your fair, exhibition or event Interaction of Color: Expo Center » Salt Lake City, UT considered for our calendar? Email our Prints from the PMA Collection This inaugural art fair will feature 50 editorial assistant, Chelsea Koressel, at international and national art galleries, [email protected]. Portland Museum of Art » Portland, ME presenting a diversity of artworks and www.portlandmuseum.org artists in a sophisticated setting. www.artnowfair.com Through May 29 FloodZone: Photographs by Anastasia Samoylova Chrysler Museum of Art » Norfolk, VA www.chrysler.org Through June 5 Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism Portland Museum of Art » Portland, ME www.portlandmuseum.org 034 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com



NEWS Artspace hosts three solo shows Nonprofit contemporary gallery Artspace in Richmond, Virginia, holds a set of three solo exhibitions for local artists Elaine Harris, Mona Dworkin and Carl Patow running February 25 through March 19. The series focuses on the artists’ concerns regarding the challenges currently facing their communities, country and planet. An opening reception takes place February 25 from 6 to 9 p.m., along with artist talks the following day at 2 p.m. Mona Dworkin, The Teaching of the Heart, Harlem, mixed media, 24 x 24\" Positive Fragmentation Tokyo-based artist The National Museum of Women in the Arts hosts Positive Yayoi Kusama. Fragmentation, with works drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. The Joint acquisition exhibition features more than 100 works by 21 contemporary women artists who incorporate fragmented elements into their The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and the artwork, including paints, etchings, photographs and various Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, three-dimensional components. These works use the concept of D.C., have jointly acquired an immersive installation by Yayoi fragmentation to convey Kusama titled Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the both aesthetic and meaning. Universe. The upcoming spring exhibition One with Eternity: Yayoi The show will be on view Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshorn will showcase at the American University this ambitious project for the first time on the East Coast. Kusama’s Museum at the Katzen Arts installation takes visitors through a room lined on all six sides with Center in Washington, D.C., reflective surfaces and filled with colorful paper lanterns covered by her through May 22. signature polka dots. Dates for the spring show are to be determined. Nicola López, Urban Transformation #5, etching, lithography and woodcut with Mylar elements, ed. 8 of 12, 30 x 30\". Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer. Photo by Aaron Wessling Photography. Encounters: Dean Mitchell The artwork of master watercolorist Dean Mitchell is showcased in an exhibition currently on view at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama. Encounters: Dean Mitchell is presented by the museum’s Black History Month Committee and features Mitchell’s portraits, landscapes and still lifes, many of which engage with Black identity. The show runs through March 20 in the museum’s Grisham Gallery. Dean Mitchell, Urban Density, acrylic on board, 22 x 30\" 036 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com

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SHOW PREVIEW Coastal Air Lighthouse ArtCenter’s ninth annual Plein Air Festival takes place March 27 to April 2. T he beauty of the southeastern coastline takes the spotlight during the ninth annual Plein Air Festival, hosted by the nonprofit Lighthouse ArtCenter. The weeklong event sees 30 award- winning plein air artists from across the country come together to capture seaside charm in Tequesta, Florida, along with artist demonstrations, workshops and other events. The festival kicks off with the Paint Out Competition held at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens. From March 28 to 31, participating artists will hold free, live demonstrations in some of the most beautiful parts of Palm Beach and Martin Counties. Among these demonstration artists are Natalia Andreeva, who will be painting at the Juno Beach Pier on March 29 with a focus on mixing color and choosing a subject, as well as Mary Hertler Tallman, who is demonstrating her use of pastels to capture light and shadow in DuBois Park on March 30. On April 1 is the Collector’s Party at the Lighthouse ArtCenter Gallery. The festival events conclude on April 2 with an art sale and the Battle of the Brushes live painting competition, held at the gallery. An awards ceremony will take place as well. “The Plein Air Festival celebrates our local landscapes and landmarks,” says Nancy Politsch, Lighthouse ArtCenter CEO. “These participating artists are known to be the best of the best in their art form, and they are here to capture our community through their painting.” Works of art created during the Plein Air Festival will be displayed throughout the week and will be available to purchase at the gallery. 1 1 Neal Hughes, Tropical Paradise, oil, 20 x 16\" 2 Chris Kling paints House of Refuge at sunrise. Photo by Jordan Weber. 3 Krystal Brown, Victory, oil, 16 x 20\" 2 3 038 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com

Cathryne Trachok cathrynetrachok.com • [email protected] “High Tea” 30x40 oil on board Solo Show: March 26 - April 23 \"COME AGAIN\" CHERYL NEWBY GALLERY

FAIR PREVIEW New Territory ART NOW FAIR marks its debut in the Utah market with a dealer fair in Salt Lake City this March 31 through April 3. 12 T he ART NOW FAIR is diving Robinson Holloway, executive director of porary fine art of all styles. Exhibitors into uncharted territory with the Art Fair 14C, which is partnering with ART include Hilton|Asmus Contemporary, announcement of its newest fair in Salt NOW to host the fair, adds, “The Salt Lake Julie Nester Gallery, Ralwins Art Gallery Lake City, Utah. The event will be held at arts council is one of the oldest in America; and Melissa Morgan Fine Art. the Mountain America Exposition Center, it’s incredibly strong and there’s a passion a central venue for Salt Lake residents for visual arts. It is a market that we felt The fair will happen March 31 through and those in the nearby town of Park would benefit from an art fair because April 2, which is nearing the end of ski City. Both locales have become hubs for of the businesses and art lovers here. It’s season in the area, giving the event an art and culture, making it an ideal time something we feel we could really grow.” expanded audience. An opening reception for a dealer fair in this market. Salt Lake benefitting a local nonprofit organization also has experienced tremendous growth Art Fair 14C, a nonprofit fair based will happen March 31 from 5 to 9 p.m. This in recent years as it’s become home to in New Jersey, will have a booth at ART will be the first chance for attendees to innovative startups and tech companies— NOW FAIR that will display a juried show experience this brand-new event. The fair a region dubbed the Silicon Slopes—as featuring artwork by artists who live or continues April 1 and 2 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., well as having the Bionic Valley, a leader have a studio in Utah. Alongside it will be and April 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. American in medical research. booths for approximately 50 national and Art Collector is a proud media sponsor of international galleries exhibiting contem- ART NOW FAIR. 040 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com

34 AR T FAIR PRE VIE W 041 1 Gerardo Labarca, Them, mixed media, 60 x 48\". Courtesy Ralwins Art Gallery 2 Audra Weaser, Surroundings, acrylic and plaster on birch panel, 48 x 48\". Courtesy Julie Nester Gallery 3 Chad Little, Searching for Stolen Moments, oil on canvas, 60 x 48\". Courtesy Julie Nester Gallery 4 Carole A. Feuerman, Kendall Island, resin, ed. 1/8, 60 x 24 x 40\". Courtesy Melissa Morgan Fine Art 5 David Yarrow, Road Trip 2, photograph, 48 x 62\". Courtesy Hilton Asmus Contemporary 5

“Rainy Day Poppies” 36\"x36\"x1.5\", oil. Terry Romero Paul www.trpart.com 818.515.4970 [email protected]

Florals by
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Expressions of Beauty Rimi Yang paints effortless scenes that allow the viewer to have a conversation with the art. BY JOHN O’HERN 1 Lady’s Daily Walk, oil on canvas, 48 x 60\". Courtesy Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.

n 1791, the Chinese artist Shen 045 Tsung-chi’en wrote a Treatise on the Art of Painting. “It should be possible… for the human spirit to express the I spirit of the universe through the brushwork without difficulty,” he wrote. “For painting is only an art, yet it has the power of creation of the universe itself…When the artist is ready to start a picture, his mind can plan only the general type of brush- work and composition. Yet as the splash of ink descends upon the paper, guided by the artist’s spirit, it comes out in myriad forms entirely beyond the original plan… If the artist insists on doing what he did yesterday, he cannot do it. Why? Because when an artist insists on something, he is already obstructing the free flow of spirit… A scholar painting starts out with nothing in his mind, but when his spirit begins to move the brush, the forms of objects present themselves on paper, for it is the circum- stance of a moment, totally unexpected, and hard to explain in words. In a brief moment the depths and heights appear, all well expressed by the brushwork, and the disposition of different objects is perfect, too, better even than the actual scenery. This is because the grand idea [of the universe] has been thereby expressed.” The Taoist philosophy of wu wei refers to the state of being in which we are in accord with the natural cycles of the universe—a state of effortless action or “no action”— being in the zone. Rimi Yang refers to Shen Tsung-ch’ien when asked about the inspiration and technique of her colorful, complex paint- ings. “I do not dismiss artists who have a great intention and message,” she says, “yet, simply in my case, I cannot. I try not to have any didactic narrative in my paintings. I tend to have a big head, so my narrative will eat up my paintings. I am sure of it. I want to keep my paintings simple and quiet, so the painting itself will grow with viewers. Thus, I think wu wei is the best way, even though ‘no action’ is quite hard to do actually. “If I know what I am going to paint beforehand, my painting must be too awful to describe,” she continues. “Thus, this confusing act of describing my art in static words is quite nonsense, yet we want to explain and to describe our art. Our mind searches for logic to settle our mind. Actually, the world is simply just illogical. If you really are aware of it, you might become quite happy. It is very interesting for me to think that we can write about illogical, vibrant and ever moving art with limited static words.” Yang was born in Japan, of Korean

2 parents, and came to the United States in 1986. Her to be able to master, but my intention is not to master 2 paintings incorporate her own mixed cultures and that either. Somewhat, I want to revisit the beautiful gardens Flowers Wonder, oil on of the U.S. as well as her interest in historical paintings. and enjoy the views. I do not follow much historical canvas, 30 x 30\". Private Pinkie, for instance, borrows the image of a young girl background, but I love each era of historical art move- collection. Courtesy from Thomas Lawrence’s 1794 painting of the same ments like different tasty dishes.” Watson MacRae Gallery, title. The Lawrence hangs in the Huntington Library Sanibel Island, FL. opposite Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy. Yang Flowers often surround her female figures as they comments, “I like to paint references from Old Master do in Pinkie, devoid of symbolism for her, and simply 3 paintings. I do like early 18th-century British portraits expressions of the beauty of the world. She comments, Pinkie, oil on canvas, like Gainsborough’s Blue Boy. Not like Picasso’s rein- “Flowers to me are simply beautiful. No one taught us 40 x 30\". Courtesy Sol Art vention of Velasquez, I simply would like to revisit the flowers are beautiful, but we all enjoy their beauty. We Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. painting my way. In Asia, with old ink paintings, one share the same feeling…and I found there is a truth in must keep copying the masters’ paintings repeatedly it. Each flower looks the same, yet we all know each is 3 different from the other, and each flower shows off its 046 www.AmericanAr tCollector.com



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