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About the Artist

Born 1968 in Sichuan province, Feng Zhengjie graduated from the Education Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1992 where he continued his studies and received an M.F.A. in oil painting in 1995. He currently lives in Beijing.

Since his first solo exhibition at Capital Normal University in 1996, he has held numerous solo exhibitions all over the world in countries such as Canada, France, Norway and Korea. Selected group shows include The Second and Third Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing (1994-95); Rouges, Loft Gallery, Paris (2001); The First Chengdu Biennale (2001); The First Guangzhou Triennial (2002); International Biennale of Contemporary Art Prague (2005) and Basel International Contemporary Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland (2006); The Thermocline - New Asian Waves, ZMK Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007); Intimate Trend - Painting from Sichuan and Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2008).

Feng Zhengjie is one of the most established artists of the Gaudy Art generation which emerged during the mid-1990s.

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Feng Zhengjie

					Screen print, printed on 490 gram smooth custom paper. Size: 32" x 32" hand deckled. All prints are in editions of 200, signed by the artist in 2008. Prices upon request.
No. 26		No. 38		No. 53

Feng Zhengjie is clearly one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists working today. While the subjects are not always feminine, it is these portraits of the supremely self confident, young, powerful Chinese woman for which he is best known.

Exhibit A is thrilled to publish some of his first silkscreen print editions here in the United States. All three are superb examples of his haunting, unmistakable work. In the case of No. 26, our ethereal beauty parts her lips as if to speak a word of invitation, a word of introduction or perhaps declination. Whatever the choice, it is she who is in complete control of the visual communication. Portraits No. 38 and 53 up the ante with their refined energy and formal beauty.

Adoring critics of Feng Zhengjie may comment upon his work in terms of the extent to which it leans toward high art or popular culture or of more esoteric considerations, but there can be no doubt that his singular, luscious palette and iconography present as compelling a body of portraiture as any we have seen in America or anywhere else - ever. It is this test of the artist; his ability to create work so utterly compelling and memorable (with impeccable technique) that renders more formal, academic analysis almost superfluous. For it is the direct, overarching beauty of Feng Zhengjie's work that says everything we need to know.