9 July - 17 August



 

Four exhibitions, taken together, explore the relationship of contemporary
art practice and theory with traditions of Chinese aesthetics and
connoisseurship.

Tea served throughout the exhibition by Tribute Tea Company, San Francisco.



GREG ROSE
Garden Fiction

Los Angeleno Greg Rose makes landscape paintings that strike a balance
between the machined perfection of California minimalism and the social
appropriation of Ed Ruscha, Robert Therrien and Lari Pittman. The similarity
to and distinction from traditional Chinese landscape paintings is startling.
Calligraphic representations of trees, stone formations and cascades --
realized in a rubberized decal-like style -- spread across ultra-flat, candy-
hued fields. The harmonious, hyper-composed images and vibrant palette
are disquietingly elegant and delightfully contemplative.
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Arrangement 2,2002, above Qing Dynasty Altar
Table, 1850 with a Qing Dynasty Scholar's Stone,
c. 1825 (on table, on the right)
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Two Stones,2002 (background) and Ming Dynasty
Scholar's Stone 1, c. 1600 (foreground)



       

 

 

RENE YUNG
mountainriver

Bay Area-based, Chinese-American artist Rene Yung's installation
mountainriver is rooted in the Chinese traditions of landscape painting
and Scholars' Stone connoisseurship. The heart of the installation is a
group of large-scale graphite drawings of fruit stones. The realistically
rendered pits appear at first glance to be traditional landscape paintings.
The fruit stones reference scholars' rocks, the ideal of "mountain," and,
ultimately, the universe, inviting the viewer to consider infinity and
simulacrum. Further, the knowledge that these are in fact drawings
of seeds raises issues of diaspora: the sowing of seeds, or migration
of peoples.

  
 


mountainriver, installation view (background)
and Qing Dynasty Stone from the
Imperial Collection, c. 1800 (foreground)

       

QUAISHI: Six Scholars' Stones from a Ming Collection
and one Qing Stone from the Imperial Collection.

FROM A SCHOLAR'S STUDIO: Furniture from the Late Ming
and Early Qing Dynasties


Classical Chinese furniture produced during the late Ming and early
Qing dynastiesis notable for its austere elegance and its influence on
Western furniture design, from Queen Anne to Bauhaus and Scandinavian
Modernism. The offices and private viewing room of Hosfelt Gallery will be
furnished in the manner of a Ming literati or scholar-official's studio.

  


Pair of Qing Dynasty Yoke-Back Side Chairs, c. 1840