Jian Wang: Two Decades in America was printed to celebrate the artist's 20 year retrospective exhibition at California State University, Sacramento. This beautiful coffee-table book chronicles Jian's artistic development through text and highly detailed color plates. A hard-cover copy with case is also available through Amazon.com A child of the Cultural Revolution in China, Jian Wang was drawn to art in early childhood. He arrived in the United States in 1986 and immediately began studying with California artists such as Wayne Thiedbaud, Manuel Neri, Roland Peterson, Jack Ogden and Fred Dalkey. With Oliver Jackson as his advisor, Jian received a Masters Degree in Art from California State University, Sacramento, in 1994. Today, Jian Wang is a celebrated contemporary artist whose artwork fuses creative ability with contemporary sensibility. Jian Wang has had more than 50 solo exhibitions in cities throughout the United States, and his work is in public and private collections throughout the world.

Jian Wang: Two Decades in America

Scott Shields

James Scarborough

Susan Willoughby

Phil Hitchcock

Arts & Photography

California State University, Sacramento

Cloth with paper jacket, 12 x 12, 93 plates from Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Seoul, Bangkok, Hong Kong and several cities in China. James Scarborough writes... It's an intriguing project, Pedersen's attempt to anthropomorphize demographic data. It correlates with past work he's done, spending large blocks of time living and teaching, observing and photographing, the roil and boil of the urban Far East, where (or anywhere, for that matter) the detritus of advertising morphs into the collaged shards of a fragmented reality. That the people he photographs are emotionally and sociologically neutral is precisely the point. Pedersen works on the fringe of microeconomics and the behavior of the people its theories seek to explain. His esthetic folds into the consumption patterns of those he photographs. He walks a narrow line between cynicism and despair, finding unexpected beauty in the precise though fleeting moments each image captures.

Kirk Pedersen: Tradeoffs

Kirk Pedersen

Photography & Video

Zero+ Publishing

LISA ADAMS: VICISSITUDE OF CIRCUMSTANCE surveys the seductive, shape-shifting psyche within Lisa Adams' haunting, mentally charged paintings. Almost cinematic in their dream-like construction of unexpected narrative and reclusive symbolism, the works document memory in strange and beautiful ways. Meaning unfurls in time lapse, both infused with a sense of rapid-fire immediacy and expansive timelessness. Like Zen koans, implausible questions take precedence over didacticism, urging viewers to forgo rational thought in order to access a deeper intuition. Transmitting informational systems, circumstance, and story with a delicate, yet commanding, organic pulse-- as if through the snap of an electrically charged synapse-- her images resonate within the subconscious and sublime.

Lisa Adams: Vicissitude of Circumstance

Lisa Adams

Ezrha Jean Black

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