Scene 9+9/ Part 1

-2021 HER POWER Global Female Contemporary Art Online Presentation

Curation

Special curator: Zhen Guo 

Co-curator: Wenling Zhao 

The Second Scenery · Body and Battlefield · Reality and Illusion

Ship and Wind · Breathing · Repair and Rebirth

Preface/

"Her Power” Chief curator Cissy cheung

The "Her Power" online exhibition, as the sister chapter of "Life Blooming-The 3rd "Boundless Love" Global Female Contemporary Art Exhibition", has been grandly kicked off during the International Women's Day in 2021

And it has established representative offices in Germany, France, Russia, New York, Malaysia, Australia, Taiwan, Beijing and other countries and regions. With the efforts of conveners from various countries and regions, "Her Power" has been widely and deeply promoted globally, injecting powerful strength and fresh blood into online exhibitions. By the end of last month, the first stage of the solicitation was over, and 9 topics were launched.

This event originated from the proposal of the 2021 Hong Kong Exhibition proposed by the Presidents Meeting of the International Women’s Art League during the 2018 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. During the International Women’s Art League Exhibition in Moscow in 2019, it was decided to hold the International Women’s Art Exhibition in Hong Kong in 2021.

During the preparation period, an unprecedented " Coronavirus disease" occurred in the world, which made our planning fall into a state of hesitation. Our plan could not be implemented, but our pace was still, our thinking kept going. 

In the past few decades, female art and female artists have risen. They have gradually made their voices in academia and the market, and they have bloomed their power-but it is far from enough. Women actually have greater creativity than men. Therefore, we hope to establish a professional, academic business and socially responsible and influential female art platform that can make women all over the world shine.

And in such a special historical period, human accidents trigger our deep reflections on life: In the limited length of life, how can women unleash their power to increase the thickness and breadth of life? This is also an important consideration for launching this exhibition.

In the process of soliciting, we saw the rich and tenacious "her" power delivered by female art. They bloomed positive meanings in life in different countries and regions; read for their own lives, think for the society, and serve the portraits of the times hope to leave a mark on history. 

The early stage of this event received active participation and support from international female artists and art institutions, especially the support of many experts and scholars, as well as our special curators, Qi Han , Dr. Rochelle Yang , Dr. Mei Huang , and Zhen Guo , for a series of guidance given during this period; and thanks to Yongbai Tao , Fangzhou Jia , Yujie Tong and other art and academic consultants for their strong support and guidance to this exhibition. 

We always believe that when a person maintains an uninterrupted enthusiasm and passion for art, then she endows her life with youthful meaning and value. The energy produced by the heart that burns for art is "her power" unmatched by any other.

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Preface/

"Her Power” Special curator Zhen Guo

In the history of Chinese painting art, the works of only a few female artists have been recorded, and the status and significance of women in the history of painting has not been recognized. 

During the 1920’s and 30’s, several women created a forefront of female art, but they received no academic notice or records. 

After the reform and opening up, women have increasingly chosen art as their career. Indeed, there are more women than men in art colleges, but few women are on the art honor roll in society.

Is it that there has never been an important female artist in history, or is it society's concealing the female consciousness?  Is it the outdate feudal consciousness still denigrate the wisdom of women?  Or is it the art world deaf to of women's self-awareness?  In this field where men dominate, when will there be equal status for female artists?

This is a problem that academia needs to face squarely. 

The presence of American female artists in the "Her Power" online female contemporary art exhibition organized by Tianqu Art helps address this.

In the post-epidemic era of 2021, the global launch of "Her Power" is undoubtedly the most timely and appropriate event  thanks to the unremitting efforts of Dr. Zhuyu Zhang and her colleagues from international curatorial teams.  The participating female artists have great artistic enthusiasm and fine sensitive to these issues. The artworks displayed are full of wisdom and display wonderful artistic skills. They once again prove that art created by women are sensitive, profound and pleasing to the eye in art, while their individuality has its own special worth.

Art makes no distinction between men and women — it is social prejudice that kills one party.  The rise of women will inevitably be reflected in art, so it is crucial to observe and study the influence and position of women in contemporary art.

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2021 · Her power

The prologue of "Life Blooming" exhibition-"Her Power" Art of Nature Global Female Contemporary Art Online Exhibition 2021, is jointly launched by Art of Nature International Female Art Research Society , Art of Nature Art Life Foundation and female artists and art institutions at home and abroad.

The first stage was guided by recommendations from members of the International Art Alliance, specially invited curators, and academic consultants. So far, we have received from the United States, Britain, France, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Australia, Turkey, Vietnam, nearly 700 works (including oil painting, ink painting, installation, sculpture, Photography, digital imaging, etc.).

The activity will continue to solicit contributions, and the online exhibition will also be carried out in stages, and will be displayed by theme, region, category, subject, or material.

The content of the exhibition will be presented on Art of Nature's official website and the professional art platform of "HER Art", Facebook, IG, and online platforms at home and abroad.

The scene 9+9 thematic series is curated by special curator Zhen Guo and co-curator Wenling Zhao. 

9 Chinese female artists in the United States and 9 American female artists are divided into three groups of different thematic units. We’re trying to observe different backgrounds of artists between Eastern and Western culture. They are currently living in the same environment in the United States that is experiencing the contemporary social scene. We explore how they think and express their value and existence with the concept of individuality and artistic language.

The first part will be composed of 6 artists: Zhen Guo, Arlene Rush, Xiaowei Chen, Monica d. Church, Zelene Jiang Schlosberg and Marcia Finks. Their works include painting on canvas, ink art, sculpture, installation, collage, video and mixed media.

More importantly, the feminist art means attitude, responsibility, and action. We should get ourselves involved in the contemporary society, to knock and respond the female barrier in the history that have been misinterpreted and "defined", and speak out for the power of women as well as the hope of women.

SCENE 9+9/part 1

The Second Scenery · Body and Battlefield · Reality and Illusion

Ship and Wind · Breath · Repair and Rebirth

2021 HER POWER Global Female Contemporary Art Online Presentation

 「Guo Zhen: The Second Scenery」 

Zhen Guo, as the special curator of this exhibition, is a creator who has been committed to promoting international feminist art research for many years and is also a firm feminist art language.

Both Her representative works "Sandbag", "Mother and the Earth", "Encounters in the Garden of Eden", or the new works "Daily Mask" and "Believe in Yourself" during the epidemic are firmly rooted in feminist introspection and equal rights. Materialized spiritual symbols confront, express and awaken the value and power of women in society.

Artist and independent curator. Graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in 1982 and stayed on to teach in the Chinese Painting Department. In 1986, She went to the San Francisco Art Institute to study. In 1987, she went to the York University College of Art as a visiting scholar. In 1988, she set up Zhen Guo's studio in New York. She is one of the earliest explorers of ink art after the reform and opening, and one of the pioneers of Asian American contemporary ink art. She has been committed to the research and exploration of international contemporary art for a long time. International auction companies such as Sotheby's have promoted their works many times.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2021 "Exorcise Evil, Existence-Guo Zhen and Qiu Ping Double Solo Exhibition", Inselgalerie Gallery, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2020 "Very Strong-Guo Zhen Natsuki Takauchi Double Solo Exhibition", PeepShow Space Gallery, New York, USA

2020 "Her Ink Painting", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2019 "Identity Crisis", Royal Gallery, New York, USA

2019 "US-China Academy Art Summit", Pennsylvania State University Park Campus, Pennsylvania, USA

"Feminism is the only concept that can save women to fight for equality. I believe that being a female artist has an incumbent social responsibility to help society understand and clarify the importance and rationality of women's self-worth and women's social value. "

——Zhen Guo

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When we leave the natural scenery in visual projection and identification, we find that the multiple constructions and interpretations of the so-called "natural scenery" also come from the wisdom and thinking of the second natural scenery created by the artist.

The installation "Mother" by artist Zhen Guo is a landscape that exudes maternal light. The artist ritually juxtaposes the hand-made female breasts of colorful fabrics in a huge space. This visual tension of the second natural landscape highlights the reason for the existence of female gender identity and the equality of women’s power discourse. Present.

The cultural temperament of artist Zhen Guo's large-scale installation "Mother" has given the world the best answer: that is, the grand pattern and vision of cultural development in modern life require the presence and transcendence of female gender identity.

——Yujie Tong

  

, 289cm x 189cm x 25 cm, ink and wash on paper, acrylic, 2019

180x60x60cm

Muti Media

2013-2018

The artist borrowed the boxers heavy leather and canvas punching bag, the most recognizable masculine equipment, to transform it, using large floral cloth and stitched meticulously to enclose the bags with breast-filled enclosure.

Boxing is the most primitive and violent action, accepted and supported by society through sport and money, but this art shows how changes are taking place.  It is a metaphor that the primitive pillar is wrapped in the love and pain of female reality, that is, the inherent tyranny of men and the constant sacrifice of women.

In this spectacular installation, the artist takes a feminist stand and  uses language tinged with political humor to trigger people’s reconsideration of the symbiotic relationship between male and female genders and identities and the social contradictions between them.

——Wenling Zhao

, , 102x103cm, Ink on rice paper+multi media, 2013

 「Arlene Rush : Body and Battlefield  」 

Arlene Rush's art works often span multidisciplinary fields, provocatively digging into contemporary politics and culture to reveal race and gender differences, excessive consumption of capital, threats to human rights, and resistance to progress.

One of the series of works "My Body As a Battleground" conveyed her concern: my body is a battlefield, recording her experience with breast cancer in 2011. Rush's artistic journey confronts the unknown dialogue that shapes society, feminist ideology, and our political participation.

Arlene Rush is a conceptual multidisciplinary artist .She was the recipient of a residency to Barcelona, Spain, from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in 1988, and of the Pat Hearn & Colin De Land Foundation Grant in 2011. In 2020, she received the Carole Eisner Award For Sculpture and was also published on Wikipedia.She has exhibited extensively in museums, universities, and galleries worldwide.Her work is in numerous collections. acknowledging both historically her artistic career and the tenacity she has towards creating work.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2021“Inaugural Summer Salon”, Curated by Francesca Arcilesi and Norma Homberg, AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

2021 “EVERY WOMAN BIENNIAL”, Curated by C. Finley, Superchief Gallery NFT, New York, NY

2020 “Darkest Before Dawn: Art In A Time Of Uncertainty”, Curated by Raul Zamudio and Ethan Cohen, Ethan Cohen Kube, Beacon, NY

2020 “Someone Will Remember Us - even in a different time”, Curated by Lisa di Donato, Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY

2013 “Twins: Just A Memory”，solo exhibition，Michael Mut Gallery, New York, NY

2005 “Fragments, Parts, & Pieces - The Sum Of The Whole”, solo exhibition，The Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA

"Reflecting on the political state and the challenges of being a woman in an atmosphere of sexism, it is a fundamental wellspring in my work and crucial for me to map these moments in history."  

——Arlene Rush

，Digital archival print，48’’h x 48’’ w，2020

 

     78’’h x 9 1/2’’ x 4 3/4’’d

Resin, fiberglass, acrylic, wood

2012

12’’h x 12’’w x 1 1/2’’d

Resin, flook velvet, wood board, metal gold leaf, crystals, and digital Archival collage  

2020

，Resin, fiberglass, glass foam, metal, wood, steel and acrylic，57’’h x 43’’w x 30’’d，1999-2004

As a conceptual multidisciplinary artist, my art expands to incorporate sculptural objects, installations, and mixed media, challenging conventional artistic boundaries.

Influenced by my life and world events, I create dialogues around the failures and malfunctions within our social and political environments. Reflecting on the challenges of being a woman artist, and the difficult politics connected to an artistic practice in New York City, I interrogate the patriarchal lens through which my work is viewed and create “new relics” of contemporary American culture. I compel the viewer to contemplate our shared social spaces, seeking ways to find unity in diversity.

，12’’ x 11’’w x 5 3/4’’d，Gauze, thread, acrylic medium, and glue，2012

Project) 

Digital print

2013

 43’’h x 31’’w

Edition1 of 2,1 AP

Ultra premium photo paper luster

2020 

,10" h x 8" w,Edition 2 of 3, 1 AP,Ultra premium photo paper luster, 1999

 「Xiaowei Chen：Reality and Illusion」 

In this online exhibition, Xiaowei Chen will bring a cross-media work "Rebecoming II" created in 2019 that integrates sculptures, 0.3mm pen and paper paintings, video performances and music.

This is a roaming and dialogue about subconscious space and psychological space. Self-confusion, confusion, wandering and scrutiny, sprawling cruelty and indifference, exploring the temperature of the subconscious rushing into the tide, like a tunnel about to be melted or swallowed by light, projecting the drama of illusion and the helplessness of reality.

Xiaowei Chen (born 1978) graduated from the Institute of Graphic Communication in Beijing, China. From 2000 to 2005 she worked in television production and produced and directed independent documentary films. She was a guest lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She was awarded the Artadia NY Artist Residency at ISCP in Brooklyn, NY; The COOHAUS RESIDENCY ARTIST FOR 2013, New York, NY; The 75th Regional Exhibition, ARNOT ART MUSEUM. Elmira, NY; 2019 Art Olympia Prize, ART OLYMPIA 2019 international open art competition, Japan; 2017 The Arte Laguna Prize, Nappe Arsenale and TIM Future Center, Venice, Italy; Manifest Press International Drawing Annual 11,Cincinnati, OH. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2021 PULSE 2021, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China

2020 Solo show [ Rebecoming ] , PeepShow Space, Brooklyn, NY 

2019 Art Olympia Prize，ART OLYMPIA 2019 international open art competition，TOKYO Metrepolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan

2019 Innovative Women in the Visionary World, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

2018  “Pop Goes The Wesel” ,Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn,NY

2017  3 Solos, The Re Institute, Millerton, NY

"All day fighting, disguise, vigilance, hypocrisy, pandering. My pen outlines, splits me up into countless copies to face everyday troubles. Opposite to a dream come true, is a soul with stinging pain. The sting can be mended but the stinging would not stop. Split, reunite, the body blended into nature in the whirlpool, forming a spiral of self-healing, from which I have been reborn and get examined again."

——Chen Xiaowei

 「Monica d. Church：Ship and Wind」 

Monica d. Church is an artist and curator. She is good at finding value in seemingly ordinary and humble objects. She is inspired by collecting all kinds of textiles, fabrics, and paper to create — from street garbage, Joss paper to lottery tickets, repurposed sails, etc.

She serves as advisor to PHOCUS and the Baldeck Center for Photography at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.  Monica has traveled to over 25 countries and has documented these journeys through her art and photography. These transnational works focus on graffiti, women, and everyday events that cross cultural boundaries.

Monica D. Churc

Church received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from The University of Kentucky. She works in painting, photography, collage, printmaking, and installation, as well as curating and designing exhibitions. Church has won numerous awards and fellowships for her work, including two Dutchess County Art’s Council Individual Artist Fellowships— one for digital photography and one for painting. Other awards include The Steven Madwed Memorial Prize for Photography and The Rosenthal Foundation Best in Show Award from the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut; a Carolyn Grant from Vassar College; and a fellowship for a six-week residency at the Woman’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2020 “More Than a Sketchbook: The Diary of an Artist”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY 

2018  “WooHoo! Graffiti in Vietnam”,solo exhibition，The Great Studio, Poughkeepsie NY

2014  “24,000 Nautical Miles: Photos from a Circumnavigation”, solo exhibition，Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY

2013  “Selections: From the Studio, 1995-2010”,solo exhibition， The Gallery at The State University of New York Administration Building, Albany NY

2012  “From the Studio, 1995-2010 (catalog)”, solo exhibition，Washington Gallery, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie NY

2010   “Walk on By…Photographs”, solo exhibition，Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY

"I began stretching and painting on repurposed ship sails spurred by my desire to create a layered and fractured picture plane. 

The sails existing architectural elements like the hard edge structural lines created by Kevlar and carbon fibers and the transparency of the material provide a built in system to explore.

In the tradition of ships being referred to as female, these paintings connect to the title Her Power in a literal sense with her—the ship—power coming from the wind in the sails. The reconstruction processes and geometric patterns reference traditionally female and underappreciated craft forms such as quilting, cross-stitch, and sewing repairs."

——Monica d. Church

，52 x 30 in，Acrylic on composite sail material, yarn，2020

24 x 18 in

Acrylic & reinforced monofilm on composite sail material, canvas

2021

52.75 x 36.5 in

Acrylic on composite sail material

2020

22 x 16 inches

Acrylic on composite sail material

2019

5.5 X 4.5 inches on 11 x 10 inch paper

Acrylic on Rives BFK

2020

 「Zelene Jiang Schlosberg : Breathing」 

Zelene Jiang Schlosberg uses cutting and superposition to create between painting and sculpture, exploring the rhythm and rhythm of three-dimensional space. Here, the four picture frames are combined into a four-part note, which is described in the space—and the breath passing through it—the days are torn by the wind, jumped intermittently by the clouds, stitched by the shadow of the tree, and translated into secrets leading to her world. Experience.

Born in Yongzhou, Hunan, Zelene Jiang Schlosberg graduated from Beijing Normal University with a master's degree in 2001 and now lives in Chicago, USA. Her practice uses techniques of cutting and superposition to create works that straddle painting and sculpture, actively exploring spatial perception.She has participated in numerous international group exhibitions and has conducted a number of cooperative projects with American avant-garde musicians.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2021solo exhibition,Woldt Gallery, London, UK

2019solo exhibition, East Central College, Illinois

2019  solo exhibition,Northern Central College, Missouri

2012solo exhibition, University of Illinois at Chicago, London, UK

"The act of cutting canvas manifests immediately and intimately. The momentum of the blade as a gesture translates to direct emotion. I see the gestures in my work breathe, run, struggle, fly, halt, and escape. As nature's light goes in, shadows are cast on the wall. Between the tension and illusion of real and unreal, the canvas feels reminiscent of memories, of yearning and blurry screams.”

——Zelene Jiang Schlosberg

, canvas acrylic thread, 102x102x6.35cm, 2021

In Zelene's art, space is transformed into an aesthetic play with the air that passes the musical instruments to evoke the sound that expands in time to create space. Schlosberg's newest artworks from 2020 and 2021. The artist explores new perceptions of space, narratives, colour and figuration, but the music and implementation of the line as motive and material are still important references. 

A general sense of anxiety pervades - the canvases have been harmed, after all, even if an optimistic colour palette is trying to maintain a brave face. An array of techniques (stitching, embroidery, script) are employed in the service of materials including beads, paper, and wire. A multiplicity of textures, combined with three-dimensional tendencies, help make the role of natural light central to interpretation. Amorphous shapes emerge, rearrange, and suspend themselves, complicating the sense of dimensionality.

As in a dream, the emotional dimension of colour stimulates an intuitive response. Zelene has created labyrinthine narratives of abstract, figurative, and mystical configurations in a world that is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. Facing the pandemic in this real world, with unexpected developments and an invisible enemy for the people, the artist specifically engages the human world, the surreal world of creative thinking and making, reacting to the uncertainty of time that suddenly overlays the world. When the comfortable real world becomes unfamiliar, the artist travels into the realm of the subconscious and comes up with characters that have been forgotten. They now populate the space of installations, resting in the floral structures or new architectural spaces of the cut screens and guard us.

——Dr. phil. Isabella Woldt  2021

56x53x7cm

thread, canvas, nail and ink

2020

 61x53x5cm

 thread canvas nail and beads

2020

The white Four Seasons are based on the interpretation of space, the freedom and spontaneity of creation, the ease between twisting, scratching, sewing and cutting. The years are like the lines of a song, life becomes more abundant because of the purity, Mies van der Rohe has a saying "Less is More.”

——Wenling Zhao

 「Marcia Finks : Repair and Rebirth」 

Marcia Finks has been engaged in artistic creation for more than 30 years. She has been obsessed with the exquisite patterns and shapes on the metal utensils of the industrial period, as well as the American pop culture symbols behind them.

Her creation has always been centered on exploring the themes of trauma, childhood and restoration, love, beauty, and rebirth. The work tells her experience of surviving the abuse in her childhood. She hopes to restore the broken parts of different old objects and then combine them to create a unique and perfect journey. 

Marcia finks has been an artist for 35 years. She began her career studying nursing , then furthering her education receiving her BA in Art History.She has always been intrigued by metal graphics and their symbolism of popular culture. 

She has won many awards in juried shows throughout the United States. Her work is collected by people all over the world.She has also designed book covers for feminist authors. Her work has appeared in numerous television series and movies.

"Art is the duel between the past and present. It is the language of the unconscious, interpreted solely by the creator. An artist draws on memory and states of awareness to confront what words cannot. Memory drives the artist to build a kind of architecture to purge and understand what has occurred in early life. It is the unraveling of the knot."

——Marcia Finks

50 x 50 x 50 cm

metal

2020

100x40x30cm

Silver  Metal Ceramic multi material

2021

100x40x30cm

Silver  Metal Ceramic multi material

2021

 

  Art of Nature Art Life Foundation  

The Art of Nature Art Life Foundation was established in July 2019, with the aim of "establishing oneself and achieving others", adhering to the spirit of "taking from society and using it for society" and embracing "delivering love, kindness and beauty" The original intention of the company is to bring more light and heat to the society, illuminate and warm more lives through the transmission of "love, goodness and beauty".

The foundation consists of five special sections: Influential Art Education, Influential Art Scholarship, Influential Art Award Ceremony, Influential Art Charity, and Influential female Art.

Through the effective integration of social resources from all walks of life, actively giving back to public welfare undertakings, to promote the inheritance and development of Chinese culture, commend art practitioners who have made outstanding contributions, cultivate and excavate outstanding young artistic talents, and enhance the artistic value and academic status of international women. Strong backup force and build a solid and influential art public welfare platform.

 HK Art of Nature International Feminist Art Research Society 

HK Art of Nature International Feminist Art Research Society was registered and established on April 28, 2011. It is a non-profit organization that studies and promotes the development of female art. And to connect and unite these who are well-known female painting or sculpture artists, female art administrators or curators, female art scholars or educators, female collectors, and anyone interested in discussing or participating in female art inside or outside the academia with professional knowledge.

Since the establishment of the society, it has gradually improved its charter and structure, and strived to attract outstanding members from all walks of life. The society is honored to hire many famous artists, academic experts, and theorists to guide and guarantee the academic and professional nature of the research society, and at the same time attract interested people from all walks of life, enrich members, and expand the beneficiary group. The Society regularly organizes activities, such as organizing members to visit exhibitions, exchange experiences, organize lectures, share results, etc. Through careful organization, the Society has grown and matured, hoping to make more useful attempts and make continuous efforts to enhance the academic, social, and commercial value and influence of female art.

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