MCLC: The Moment for Ink exhibition

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Fred Green <fhgreen at gmail.com>
Subject: The Moment for Ink exhibition
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The Moment for Ink
Saturday, February 23, 2013 - Saturday, March 23, 2013

This exhibition of historical and contemporary ink painting in America
reminds us that Asian culture has important international expressions. It
spans 120 years and features about 150 works by nearly 50 historical and
contemporary artists who have extended the legacy of ink painting during
their careers in the United States. It is co-organized by the San
Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery with CCCArts of the Chinese
Culture Foundation, in association with the Asian Art Museum and Silicon
Valley Asian Art Center. The exhibition will be presented at all venues
before traveling to China.

San Francisco State’s Fine Arts Gallery will show both historical and
contemporary works. Early Japanese modernist Saburo Hasegawa is among the
abstract highlights. His “Supreme Goodness is Like Water” painting
seemingly deconstructs the characters of a famous line from Laozi’s most
fundamental Taoist text, “Dao De Jing.” Chiura Obata’s masterful painting
on silk “Storm Nearing Yosemite Government Center” of mountain ridges and
floating bands of clouds communicates weather’s unpredictable energy in
the High Country of the Sierras, a geography that first became associated
with the artist after the inspiration of his extended art and backpacking
trek in 1927.Chang Dai-chien’s splashed-ink perspectives on lotus flowers
will be represented in several paintings. The Fine Arts Gallery will also
show — for the first time ever in public — the studies for Tseng Yuho’s
large-scale 1964 mural “Western Frontier.”

This project is made possible by grants from the National Endowment for
the Arts and Terra Foundation for American Art.  Gallery hours: Wednesdays
through Saturdays, 11am to 4pm. Free.

For a full press release, directions to the gallery and contact
information please visit the following link:

http://creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/2013/02/23/4616