ARTS OF ASIA
CULTURAL OBJECTS FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 13 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM
On view: February 12 - March 1, 2025
Image courtesy of Jing Shui
EXHIBITION
ARTWORKS
In celebration of the Lunar New Year we will be showcasing cultural objects from the private collections of Jing Shui, Robert Bricker, Charles Laughlin, Ma Lan, Patrick McAloon, Monica Xia, and Joanie and Ray Palmer. All artwork images provided courtesy of the collectors
Image courtesy of Jing Shui, detail of Kesi art
Image courtesy of Jing Shui, detail of Bamboo weaving Calligraphy Art. Wang Xizhi, Lantingxu. ( Lantingxu refers to the famous Preface to the Orchid Pavilion by Wang Xizhi.)
Image courtesy of Jing Shui, detail of Bamboo weaving Calligraphy Art. Wang Xizhi, Lantingxu. ( Lantingxu refers to the famous Preface to the Orchid Pavilion by Wang Xizhi.)
EXHIBITING
COLLECTORS
Jing Shui was born in Sichuan, China, and lived in Beijing for 20 years. She earned her BA and MFA in Design from the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghau University in Beijing, China. From there, she earned her Ph.D. in Chinese Fine Arts from the Chinese National Academy of Arts. She is a contributing author to the Journal of the National Art Museum of China, as well as the founder of JSVA Center for Culture Communication. Currently, she is a member and renting artist at the McGuffy Art Center in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia.
Learn more about Jing Shui on her website: jsvacenter.com
Robert E. Bricker is a figurative bronze sculptor. He began stone carving the figure when he was 15 years old, and by the age of 25, he established his own bronze foundry business in Charlottesville. Although Bricker is trained as a realist sculptor, and has created many realist bronze portraits and monuments, he is deeply interested in personal expression with the figure. Imagination and composition are paramount priorities. He is a spatial thinking artist, and his work is consistently an expression of form in space. He is dedicated to creating figurative imagery that is poetically ambiguous as to its meaning, with the full intention that the viewer’s interpretation of his work is as valid as why he made it in the first place. Bricker draws constantly from live models, try to cultivate a call-and-response synergy. Models become a point of departure for me to embark on introspection and an investigation of potential meanings of juxtaposed symbols. Craftsmanship and respect for the artist medium are important to him. He feels that his assertions in this artistic statement are firmly backed up with the perusal of my figurative art imagery.
Learn more about Robert Bricker on his website: robertebricker.com
This exhibition is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
