Joint Art Exhibition -- PAUL TONG & SIU-CHING LUI

 

Art Exhibition

Paul Tong & Siu-ching Lui

Chinese Brush Painting (Watercolor)

Shimon and Sarah Birnbaum Jewish Community Center

775 Talamini Rd

Bridgewater, New Jersey

January 4 to January 28, 2022

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Hooray!  The paintings are all up!

You are invited to visit and view the artwork.  You can enter after ringing the front door bell and checking in.  JCC's hours and info are here.

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To view the exhibition paintings online, use this link, and click the re-direct link.

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Due to the Pandemic, there will be no reception.  Please email me for questions: pauluctong@gmail.com

Artist Ya Ming

Artist Ya Ming (1924-2002) is known for a bold and cursive style.  I was not aware that his work also has a lot of spare and sparse compositions, with lots of white space for the soul and contemplation, as seen in the following link.

Ya Ming's mastery of white space.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Fi2Au8-jTF_RCsw7rLtsPQ

The third painting in the above site is a good exercise for a simple framing of a marsh, with lots of empty spaces, where a recluse is keeping quiet and cool in a boat.  It looks simple but requires brushwork sequencing to achieve the layering and density of the marsh grass groves.  Also important is the rendering of the grass in a irregular and non-repetitive manner.  Note also the flock of birds in the distance.

My version of the picture is as follows: