Seven Sisters celebrates the opening of PING ZHENG | NATURE'S CANOPY with a reception for the artist on Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 2 to 5 PM.
Nature's Canopy includes recent works by Ping Zheng, rendered in oil stick on paper layered into rich and colorful textures and patterns inspired by landscapes from her travels across the United States, Europe, and China.
This past fall (2023) marked her first solo museum presentation in the US: Ping Zheng: Where Memories of Travels Go at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Amy Smith-Stewart, Chief Curator at the Aldrich, described:
"Zheng's aim to be transported through a creative process in her pursuit of loftier dimensions. Her solitary journeying was initially a way to create refuge out of an oppressive childhood in China but evolved into a means to evade the entrapments of our impersonal digital world...She also cites artists that orbit many centuries and geographies who too made work that merge their experiences of the natural world with a special blend of personalized spiritualism. Her sources are wide-ranging and span ancient Chinese landscape painting and twentieth and twenty-first century visionary abstractionists like Hilma af Klint, Agnes Pelton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Judy Chicago, Matthew Wong, Joseph E. Yoakum, and Takako Yamaguchi."
Nature's Canopy takes a hypnotically radiating journey through sunlit valleys, hills, cascading waterfalls, and into the night sky. The exhibition features a salon-style grouping that introduces us to the vibrancy of Zheng's symbolic universe, from the serenity of a moonlit field of flowers to cinematic shifts in seasons and light.
Ping Zheng (b. 1989, Zhejiang, China) received an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 and a BFA from the University College of London, Slade School of Fine Art in 2014. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has completed artist residencies at the Rancho Linda Vista Arts Community, in Oracle, Arizona, and the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, Vermont among others. Recently, Zheng has been reviewed in Artforum, the New Yorker, Houston Chronicle and featured on Glasstire. Her works are included in the JP Morgan Chase Bank collections, Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, the Cleveland Clinic Art Program, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
