Newman Huo

    IN the contemporary Chinese art scene, Zhang Chunyang, a Beijing-based painter, is known for using her own life as the subject of her paintings, transforming her memories into dream-like stories and moments.

    Zhang is showing her oil paintings, watercolors and installation works at a solo exhibition in He Xiangning Art Museum in Overseas Chinese Town, Nanshan District until June 19.

    Titled “Laughing and Talking,” the works were done by Zhang between 2005 and 2010, showcasing experiments the artist had made with different media.

    The exhibition’s highlights include a series of fairy-like watercolors and oil paintings the artist made during her pregnancy in 2010. The expressionist works repeatedly depict the lyrical and carefree scenes of a naked woman and a baby riding a white horse through forests, over mountains and cities, and across rivers and oceans.

    Huang Zhuan, a Chinese art critic, believes that “Zhang is one of the few female expressionist artists in China today who still consider the personal world as the main subject of artistic expression.”

    Born in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1975, Zhang graduated from the Jilin Institute of Arts in 1999, and obtained her master’s degree in fine arts from the oil painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2004.

    Her works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group art exhibitions nationally and internationally.

    Dates: Through June 19

    Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Closed Monday

    Add: He Xiangning Art Museum, Overseas Chinese Town, Shennan Boulevard, Nanshan District （南山区华侨城何香凝美术馆）

    Buses: 21, 26, 32, 54, 59, 101, 105, 109, 121, 204, 209, 223, 234, 327, 328, 350, 370, 390.

    Metro: Hua Qiao Cheng Station (Overseas Chinese Town Station 华侨城站）, Exit C