SInovision produced a video of KAI Gallery's opening ehxibition, including interviews with artist Jared Fitzgerald, and Gallery Director, Justin Warner. Founded in 2007, Fitzgerald Fine Arts has always kept a curatorial focus on Chinese art by examining eastern art traditions and seeing how traditional mediums, techniques and motifs could be incorporated into contemporary practices.

SKY WELL, the new artistic project, which renews the precious collaboration between the Museum of Villa Bernasconi and the Cultural Association ARTE & ARTE will be on display from 5 May to 31 August 2018. This installation is signed by Beili Liu, a visual artist born in China, but has long been living in the United States.

Asia Week is a ten-day event with 10 museums and cultural centers, 45 galleries from around the world, and 5 auction houses opening their doors to display a stunning variety of art across several countries and centuries from March 15 – 24, 2018.

NEW YORK—Spring is just around the corner, and for Asian art lovers that conveys a very special sign: Time for Asia Week New York 2018! Celebrating its 9th anniversary, the spectacular ten-day event, now in full-swing, showcases 45 individually

Han Bing

By Tyson Duffy

Artist Han Bing doesn’t conceive of his homeland China the way most of us in the west do. The rising pagodas of the Tang Dynasty, breathtaking rural vistas, the simplicity of enclosed courtyards in ancient palaces—these are of little interest to him. Young and from a small village in the rural badlands, Han Bing is one of a generation of mainland youth standing witness to the beauties and brutalities of rapid, high-octane modernization in China.

Zhou Rong's monumental sculpture, Awn-2 Violet, is now on view at the Newark Museum's sculpture garden. This time lapse video shows how the sculpture was installed in its new home. Other artists represented in the Newark Museum garden include David Smith, Tony Smith and Geroge Segal. The soft contours, strong color, and large scale of this abstract sculpture draw the eye—pointedly contrasting its environment. The slick reflective skin animates the surroundings making them part of the work while the convex and concave surfaces cast shifting shadows as sunlight moves across its planes. The work is one of a series (other editions of similar form with varying sizes and materials are available through the gallery) that plays with positive and negative space.

Artist Beili Liu uses repetitive, hand-made processes to explore feminine strengths of resilience and persistence. For her new installation at Facebook Austin, "Skywell Austin", Beili created hundreds of "pebbles" out of printed silk organza dipped in resin. As in her other works, everyday materials are manipulated to create metaphorically rich narratives. The fluidity of this piece also refers to the powerful, yet invisible connections that Facebook offers its global communities. Beili Liu Studio, Video by June Zandona.

Manhattan-based FitzGerald Fine Arts is entering the Hamptons art scene this July with the launch of its newest gallery.

"FitzGerald Fine Arts is pleased to introduce its newly opened Southampton gallery located at 20 Jobs Lane, directly across from the influential Southampton Arts Center," shared Art Director, Justin Warner.

Established in 2007, FitzGerald Fine Arts highlights Asian art that showcases traditional forms of the past through art that explores the artist's interpretations of these mediums, techniques and motifs through contemporary aesthetics and contextual underpinnings.

Another gallery of interest is FitzGerald Fine Arts, who is presenting Beili Liu’s blown sumi ink on canvas entitled Rise & Fall Series, Wind Drawing. The large-scale triptych embraces transience, fragility and the passage of time through an evocation of the wind’s movement. Liu creates immersive material-driven and process-driven, site-responsive installations. Liu often explores opposing forces, such as lightness as opposed to heft, fierceness countered by resilience and chaos balanced by order. She uses common materials, such as thread, scissors, paper, stone, fire and water, and unpacks their complex cultural meanings. Her pieces often combine eastern continuity over time with western passion for the new.

Another gallery of interest is FitzGerald Fine Arts, who is presenting Beili Liu’s blown sumi ink on canvas entitled Rise & Fall Series, Wind Drawing. The large-scale triptych embraces transience, fragility and the passage of time through an evocation of the wind’s movement. Liu creates immersive material-driven and process-driven, site-responsive installations. Liu often explores opposing forces, such as lightness as opposed to heft, fierceness countered by resilience and chaos balanced by order. She uses common materials, such as thread, scissors, paper, stone, fire and water, and unpacks their complex cultural meanings. Her pieces often combine eastern continuity over time with western passion for the new.

FitzGerald Fine Arts (New York)

In their exhibition featuring the work of artist Beili Liu, a work of blown sumi ink on canvas is noteworthy. Titled Rise & Fall Series, Wind Drawing (Panel 1), on view at 40 Wooster Street, this large-scale triptych evokes the movement and look of wind, conjuring its life-giving energy known as prana. It is typical of the works that Liu is known for, which embody transience, fragility and the passage of time.

Asia Week New York 2017 will be its largest year yet with 51 galleries participating, including 13 new additions. Fitzgerald Fine Arts is proud to be participating for the second year in a row, and is honored to be hosting a press preview breakfast on March 9th, as well as an opening reception for its group exhibition dedicated to the event's festivities on March 11th.

Han Bing also works with multimedia projects, performance art, film and documentary, site-specific installations, painting and social art projects. He grew up in an impoverished village in rural China, and currently lives and works in Beijing. The artist has had influential solo shows at the Centre Pompidou, Columbia Museum of Art, National Art Museum of China and Guangzhou Art Museum among others.

SInovision produced a video review of Han Bing's solo ehxiibiotn "Urban Amber" at Fitzgerald Fine Arts, including commentary by Gallery Director Justin Warner.

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New York based FitzGerald Fine Arts is having an exhibition of photographs entitled Han Bing: Urban Amber at the Dorsett, 58 Shepherds Bush Green.

Asian Art in London (AAL) is now in its 19th year, and this autumn’s event runs from 3 to 12 November. Asian Art in London this year has 48 dealers and galleries from the UK and overseas showcasing a range of works of art from South, Southeast Asia, central Asia, China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas and the Islamic world dating from antiquity to the contemporary, along with sales at the auctionhouses.

Han Bing’s photography series: Urban Amber looks to visualize the drama of China’s transformations as the nation is caught up in what he calls the “theatre of modernization.”

Contemporary artist Han Bing, now represented by FitzGerald Fine Arts, possesses an impressive exhibition and publication record worldwide.

His solo show entitled Urban Amber is a series of roughly twenty photographs (c-prints on aluminum) and four transparency light box units, all of which were taken over the course of six years and will be on exhibit at FitzGerald Fine Arts gallery at Wooster Street in Manhattan with a dedicated evening reception on September 23rd.

In Urban Amber, Han Bing’s visual interventions also raise questions about the paradoxes of desire. Desire for Han Bing is an irreducibly bifurcated modality, that is, it has powerful manifestations and effects that can be both beautiful and poisonous. In his conceptual photography series of single-exposure images, Urban Amber, this paradox takes on a different form. The spectre of glamorous high-rises, those icons of middle-class China’s dream of home and a better life, are juxtaposed to the rundown, temporary dwellings of the urban poor living in their shadows. These fantasy high-rises appear resplendent and dream-like until you realize that their inverted images are reflected in Beijing’s ubiquitous, industrial-waste and garbage-infested “/stink rivers”. Like amber, these rivers capture sediment of the times, showing us through a mirror darkly, the underbelly of China’s fantasy of modernity.

The big apple is a place where art meets culture, and no better places can this be truer than downtown Soho, the East Village, and of course, the Chelsea area. Back in March, we visited FitzGerald Fine Arts (a Soho gallery which showcases contemporary Chinese porcelain and ink painting), and had the opportunity to meet Taiwanese artist Hui Chi Lee. This was Ms. Lee’s first show in New York, where she presented a new body of hand drawn graphite pen and colored pencil works on paper, as well as a soaring site specific sculptural installation, entitled “Lian, Lian.’ The exhibit was filled with energy, and a modern spirit, which reflected her abstract paintings that can somehow be compared to “Calligraphy in Motion”. In part, her latest series is a true reflection on Taiwanese cultural traditions that can seem oppressive in contemporary society.