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Zhang


Works

Vividly


40’’ x 72’’

After Rain


36’’ x 60’’

All the Way


60’’ x 48’’

Back and Around


48’’ x 60’’

Bejeweled II


60’’ x 72’’

Blue Eyes


40’’ x 40’’

Carnival of Light


36’’ x 48’’

Evening Waltz


30’’ x 60’’

Fiery Awakening I


60’’ x 48’’

Halcyon Days II


72’’ x 48’’

In Pursuit


36’’ x 48’’

Inner Path


36’’ x 48’’

Lady Bird


48’’ x 36’’

Last Minty Bliss


60’’ x 60’’

Laying Down


48’’ x 48’’

Laying Down II


48’’ x 48’’

Laying Down II


48’’ x 48’’

Like Tomorrow II


48’’ x 48’’

Near and Far


60’’ x 84’’

New Beginnings


48’’ x 96’’

Sage and Cream


60’’ x 72’’

Sea Harmony


60’’ x 48’’

Seeing Through


48’’ x 72’’

Serene Days


40’’ x 40’’

Snowfalls II


40’’ x 30’’

Spring Remedy


48’’ x 72’’

Wildflowers


40’’ x 40’’

Wind and Petals


48’’ x 60’’

Winter Embrace II


18’’ x 24’’


Biography

Through a dynamic language of abstraction, Zhang’s oil paintings convey a visceral engagement with the surrounding natural environment while evoking the depth of human emotions. With a calligraphic execution, his bold and gestural brushstrokes demonstrate a unique physicality and spontaneity, which resonate with early influences of Abstract Expressionism and the Automatistes Movement. The luscious colors and rich textures dictate each composition by accentuating its inherent physicality, and in doing so, add a sculptural quality to the painting.

While the expressiveness of his painterly strokes make a definitive statement of their own, Zhang is not solely interested in creating the allure of texture; rather, it is part of his integral painting process to achieve an overarching state of equilibrium on canvas: between positive and negative spaces, the thick and thin, and contrasting color tones. In fact, the very act of breaking existing patterns requires great instinctive judgment and continually challenges the artist, in order to achieve a harmonious formulation of movement and thought. As such, Zhang engages in the ongoing dialogue to reinvent abstract painting by seeking to evoke a fundamental state of existence through an intimate encounter with nature, the cycle of life, and the plethora of human emotions.

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