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Figurative painter to lead events, Feb. 20-23
Posted February 16, 2006; 10:25 p.m.
Figurative painter Zhi Lin will participate in several events on
campus the week of Feb. 20 as a fellow in the Council of the Humanities
and the Tang Center for East Asian Art.
Lin, whose work is deeply rooted in the study of Chinese visual
culture, is a professor at the University of Washington-Seattle. A
graduate of the China National Academy of Fine Arts, as well as the
Slade School of Fine Art at the University of London and the University
of Delaware, he has shown his work in a number of major institutions in
England, France, Japan, Taiwan, Pakistan, China and the United States.
Lin's large paintings and small studies are the result of more than a
decade of work on a project, "Five Capital Executions in China." The
five large paintings, "Starvation," "Flaying," "Firing Squad,"
"Decapitation" and "Drawing and Quartering," are significant as
portrayals of history and cultural critique. The sketch shown here is a
study for "Drawing and Quartering."
Lin will give two illustrated talks: "Zhi Lin's Work: A Journey Across
History and Culture" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the Stewart Film
Theater, 185 Nassau St.; and "Self-Portraits: Investigations of Nature,
the Past and the Present" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, in 106
McCormick Hall.
He also will lead three workshops on "The Artist as a Critical Observer
and Investigator" at noon Monday, Wednesday and Thursday in Room 302 at
185 Nassau St.
The events are sponsored by the Council of the Humanities, Tang Center, Program in Visual Arts, Department of Art and Archaeology and University Art Museum.