WHAT
This is the second solo exhibition of Beijing-born artist (b. 1975) with the gallery, running simultaneously with the New York gallery and featuring some of the artist’s latest drawings. Widely recognised among his generation for his dexterous ability to create paintings that reflect and preserve the process of their creation, the colours, brushstrokes, and traces of the artist’s hand endure on his canvases after being continuously overlaid and blended. Huang’s technique has unique ties with the traditional Chinese ‘Gongbi’ technique, but interpreted with the artist’s own unique contemporary twist, the drawings on display show the perfect syncrotism between the east and the west.

WHY
Huang is known for his Expressionist adjacent style and his works are highlighted by their detailed construction of landscape and human form that effuses vibrant colour and reflects the experience of creation. Huang’s works are marked by a sharp and clear contrast between the vitality of colour and the harsh realities of life. Rivers, bubbles, treasures, sunrises, and sunsets are recurring motifs in his works that are presented with dazzling visual effect, yet embody the artist’s extensive study of individuals, nature, life, politics, and beyond. The drawings on display here can be seen as the foundation of the rest of his works and clearly delineate his artistic process.