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BURRISON GALLERY TO DISPLAY ARTWORK OF MICHELLE CHOY SUN
For immediate release
Philadelphia
September 2, 2006
Artist Michelle Choy Sun will have a display/sale of her artwork
from September 12 through October 28 at the Burrison Gallery of the
University
of
Pennsylvania. The opening reception is at the
gallery, on Friday, September 15 from
5 p.m.
to
7 p.m.
Entitled "Zhouzhuang and
Venice: Fusing Chinese and Western Art, Poetry and Calligraphy,” this art project
presents the two sharply distinctive cultures of Zhouzhuang
and
Venice. The exhibit includes 16 oil on canvas paintings–eight of
Venice
and eight of Zhouzhuang. A
Zhouzhuang painting is paired with a
Venice
painting around eight different themes: “morning,” “nighttime,”
“sunset,” “early spring,” “blossoms,” “canals,” “boats” and
“antiquity.” To fuse Chinese and
English poetry in this project, the artist wrote a Chinese poem, with English
translation, for four
of the Zhouzhuang paintings, and also incorporated, for four of the
Venice
paintings, works of Western poetry.
About Zhouzhuang
Located 25 miles
from Shanghai, Zhouzhuang was commissioned by
China
Premier Deng Xiao Ping as the first water town in
China. The city dates from the Song
Dynasty, about 1000 years ago, and today covers about 200 acres, with houses and
streets all built along canals, and 14 stone bridges that connect the vicinity.
About Michelle Sun
Michelle Sun has
studied since 2002 with
Philadelphia
artist Cheung Wei Jian to combine techniques of Chinese painting with oil
painting.
During the summer of 2001 and the winter of 2004, she studied in
Hong Kong
with Lam Tian Xing, a master painter and graduate of
Beijing
Art
University
and presently president of the Art Association of Hong Kong. His work was
displayed as background artwork during a meeting of Hong Kong Chief Executive
Tung Jian Wah and former President Clinton and President Bush.
She studied with Mr. Lam the technique of bomo to achieve the
abstract penetrating effects of landscape painting.
Mr. Lam was selected as one of the one hundred most famous artists in the
past 100 years in the People’s Republic of
China.
From
1970 to 1974, she studied with Bao Siu Yao at the Lai Jin Art Institute in
Hong Kong
. Mr. Bao was a master of the Lingnan school of painting and a renowned artist
well-known in Japan
. He was a leading artist in
Hong Kong
for half a century until his passing. He belonged to the second generation of
the
Lingnan
School
with other contemporaries such as Yang Shan Shen.
About the Burrison
Gallery
The gallery is
located inside the University Club at Penn (formerly the Faculty Club) at the
Inn
at Penn, 3611 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia. Its hours of operation are Monday
through Friday from
8 a.m
to
6 p.m., and weekends from
7 a.m.
to
1 a.m.
There is no admission charge to
view the exhibition.
For further information, please visit
www.business-services.upenn.edu/universityclub/burrison.shtml
www.michellesun.com
Contact:
Calvin Sun
610-296-3947
201-993-8816
csun@calvinsun.com
Ms. Ellery Foutch
Burrison Gallery
University Club at
the
Inn
at Penn
3611 Walnut St
.
Philadelphia
PA
19104
215-898-4618
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