Berkeley Central Arts Passage Gallery

Berkeley Central Arts Passage Gallery is a half-block long gallery in downtown Berkeley, nested inside a huge apartment compound, connecting two major streets full of major institutions such as  City College, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Aurora Theatre, Jazz School, and Freight and Salvage club.

A Berkeley gallery, Expressions Gallery, was entrusted to curate several recent shows for Arts Passage: "The Many Forms of Art", "Today's Artists Interact with Major Art Movements", and "Our Challenged Planet".

The Many Forms of Art surveyed many forms and the definition of those art forms, ranging from painting, drawing, sculpture and particularly the varieties of print making, as show in the video below:



Today's Artists Interact with Major Art Movements demonstrated how active artists were influenced by major art figures and movements in the past, and how they reacted and responded to the rich history:



Five of my paintings were included in that show.


The Triumph of Saint George (Baroque)


Progression (Romanticism) and Mackerel (Realism)


In Distant Country (Modern Art)


Siege (Neo-Expressionism)

Last week, the latest exhibition opened and my painting, Leisurely, was included in this "Our Challenged Planet exhibition, which ends on February 2, 2016:




Leisurely



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Art Gallery of Luxun Art Academy in Shenyang, China

When I visited my home city, Shenyang, China, last month, I stopped by Art Gallery of Luxun Art Academy. Unfortunately, it was closed. During my last three visits, only once I was able to see some artwork there.

Most of the galleries and museum in China don't seem to have a consistent hours or curating philosophy. Not a single one of the museums I've visited there ever sold any reproductions of their works. When I visited the National Gallery in Beijing, I found no permanent oil painting collections on display. Such visits were often disappointing.

From the abundant of graffiti on the walls of the Art Gallery of Luxun Art Academy, I guessed that it had not been operating for a long time. The graffiti are not interesting. However, a group of insolent young people in front of them were intriguing. They were making some strange fighting poses and one of them was busying shooting videos of themselves and the graffiti.

That turned out to be the only art experience of this visit to my home city, which has never been known as art mecca anyway.















Note: Lu Xun (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century and had introduced Käthe Kollwitz into China.