

NEW YORK: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE WU JUNYONG
Han Feng Art Space, New York is thrilled to be hosting Chinese artist Wu Junyong as our first artist-in-residence. Wu has been in New York since July, creating new works at our art space on West 29th Street as he explores and soaks in life in New York City. These new works are currently being organised into a solo exhibition at the art space, and is available to view by appointment (hello@hanfeng.com). Wu Junyong will be in New York until the end of September. WU JUNYONG: THE


2019/05/19: NEW EXHIBITIONS IN SHANGHAI
Han Feng Art Space is excited to open third wave of new exhibitions at Amanyangyun in Shanghai on 19 May 2019. This time, we are welcoming artists from UK, US, Shanghai and Beijing – Gill Button and He Xi, Lois Conner and Tang Yi, as well as Maria Robledo – to showcase painting, photography and ceramics. We are also updating the display of Han Feng’s personal collection with pieces she collected early on, including those by Geng Jianyi, Gu Wenda, Zhang Enli, Zhang Peili and Z


HE XI 何曦
“Ice cold glass is a symbol of the city, just like ‘the people’, who are both right here and very far away.” He Xi is a man of few words, yet through the paintbrush, he has found a way to express his concerns for real world issues using his classical Chinese bird-and-flower painting training. The result? His works cannot be categorised, breaking the rigid rules of traditional Chinese painting. In his ink and brush world, there is no limitation to what can be considered as his


TANG YI 唐乙
“I don’t like to dream. The photos I take are all very personal. They’re the inside of my heart, my psychological world, expressing something about me. I hope I can always focus wholeheartedly on this inner world.” Eyes, flowers, bodies, fish… These commonplace things are important motifs in Tang Yi’s pictorial world. Like keeping a diary, she uses images to converse with her subconscious. Tang Yi has been using photography as the language to describe her innermost thoughts s


GILL BUTTON
Faces, particularly, women’s faces, inspire Gill Button. Snapshots of “new” visages found online, decayed Victorian photographs of long forgotten sitters discovered at flea markets, glorious icons of the silver screen, family photo albums… They all inspire her melancholic and emotive portraiture. Oil and ink are Button’s media of choice; she relishes the organic life and independent will inherent to these materials. The interactive relationship she shares with paint and colou


LOIS CONNER
Lois Conner’s work encourages the viewer to explore the similarities and nuances of our world. Though we are shown a moment in time of a specific place, her images invite us to consider the history of that place, its culture and its connection to other places. “What I am trying to reveal through photography, in a deliberate yet subtle way, is a sense of history. I would like my photographs to describe my relationship between the tangible and the imagined, between fact and fic