Monday, December 2nd, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Offspring from white, 2011 / Acrylic, gesso, pigments and resins over wood
120 x 25 cm
Francisco Hauss is a Mexican artist who addresses the processes of communication, structural development, and behavior within nature. His works explores the role and significance of nature in relation to itself or within cultural systems.
He earns inspiration through nature contemplation, indigenous mysticism, dynamic systems thinking and biosemiotics.
His works range from sculptures and installations to drawings and performances. His works has been shown internationally in places like Long Museum, Power Station of Art, HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), Square Gallery, Rockbund art museum, Shanghai Youth Art Fair, Ironic Art Nation (New York, USA), Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Bogota, HANGAR residency in Lisbon, the gallery Espacio UNION, Mexico design week and La casa del poeta in Mexico.
He was born in Mexico city and spent 11 years in China, where he developed his career until 2024 when he readopted Mexico city as main base while keeping Shanghai as a secondary one.
Website: https://www.instagram.com/francisco_hauss/
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Double Self 2023 38x42" oil on linen
Zhang Yu was born in Beijing, China. She graduated from Beijing Science Technology College with a degree in Art Design in 1994, and continued her study at the Central Academy of Fine Art for another two years to refine her master program training in oil painting. By the time she began her MFA studies at the City College of New York in 2007, her paintings matured and she established a unique style that challenges the notions of ideal beauty and self-identity.
Yu has received recognition such as the City Artist Crop grants in 2021, the Koan J. Baysa Award in 2008. During her career, Yu has numerous solo and group shows in the United States, Japan and China. She has shown in the Staten Island Museum, New York; Nasu-Kougen Museum, Japan; International Arts Festival ShangHai, China; and many galleries in New York City area including Gallery 456, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Hans Weiss (CT), Thomas Erben Gallery, Artists Space, Exit Art, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts and White Box.
Zhang Yu currently lives and works in New York.
Website: zhangyustudio.com
Instagram: Instagram: yzhangstudio