GROUP SHOW @ JAMES COHAN GALLERY, SHANGHAI
James Cohan Gallery Shanghai is pleased to present its summer group exhibition The Tree, opening on June 26th and continuing through August 30th, 2009. This exhibition brings together over 30 international artists who explore the subject of trees in various aspects. The exhibition is also inspired by the city of Shanghai with its many tree-lined streets and lanes and its wonderful history with the Plane tree first planted by the British and French in the 1840s. These trees are one of the outstanding features of this remarkable city and are symbolic of Shanghai’s colonial and post-colonial history. They provide shade and shadow, a dramatic and ever-lasting sense of seasonal change amidst a city in constant flux.
The Tree offers both whimsical as well as poetic perspectives by such artists as Francesco Clemente, whose extraordinary watercolor depicts human forms as boughs and branches within a tree that could, at any moment, become a cloud. Or in the work by Philip Taaffe, from his Composite Nature series, where the underlying patterns and structures of the natural world have been central to his work during the exhibitions decade. More atmospheric views are found in April Gornik’s charcoal drawing, a darkened meadow of trees, and in the paintings by Yuko Murata and Joan Nelson, whose works take us on a journey to serene and melancholic forests. (…)
ARTISTS: Jessica Backhaus, Manfredi Beninati, Chen Jie, Francesco Clemente, Lorenzo de Los Angeles, Carroll Dunham, David Dupuis, André Ethier, Alicia Framis, Lynn Geesaman, April Gornik, Guo Hongwei, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Yun-Fei Ji, Shi Jing, Shi Jinsong, Amy Kao, Yayoi Kusama, Myoung Ho Lee, Yan Lei, Michael Lin, Frank Majore, Keith Mayerson, Yuko Murata, Joan Nelson, Robyn O’Neil, Bill Owens, Roxy Paine, Hiraki Sawa, Ward Shelly, Mark Steinmetz, Philip Taaffe, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Yuken Teruya, Sun Xun.
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