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Works

After Rain


36’’ x 60’’

After Rain II


32’’ x 60’’

Breaking Away I & II


48’’ x 96’’

Evening Waltz


30’’ x 60’’

Inner Path


36 x 48

Spring Healing


36’’ x 60’’

Unwavering


30’’ x 30’’

All the Way


60’’ x 48’’

Another Path II


36’’ x 48’’

Bejeweled III


60’’ x 72’’

Bejeweled V


60’’ x 72’’

Blue Eyes


40’’ x 40’’

Closer Again


40’’ x 48’’

Falling In


60’’ x 72’’

Fiery Awakening I, II & III


60’’ x 144’’

In Becoming


48’’ x 96’’

Last Minty Bliss


60’’ x 60’’

Let There Be III


40’’ x 72’’

Meeting Again II


60’’ x 60’’

Seeing Through


48’’ x 72’’

Seeing Through II


36’’ x 48’’

Serene Days


40’’ x 40’’

Snowfalls II


30’’ x 40’’

Spring Harvest


60’’ x 48’’

Thinking of You Too


40’’ x 72’’

Wandering Path


40’’ x 30’’

Willow


48’’ x 48’’

Wind and Petals


48’’ x 60’’

Yesterday


48’’ x 48’’

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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