Yun-Fei Ji
Yun-Fei Ji came to the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies in the Spring of 2007 to work on a project that incorporated subject matter from his large-scale watercolors and smaller graphite drawings. On The High Branches depicts an aviary for birds and fantastical amphibian-like figures held in abeyance beneath a grouping of speakers floating in the sky. Yun-Fei Ji's painting style, a contemporary form of traditional Chinese landscape painting, is softened in this printed work by the use of tertiary tones and graphite passages. His imagery often depicts the insidious modernization of China and the destruction left in its wake.
Yun-Fei Ji (b. 1963, Beijing, China), has received numerous awards and honors including the Rome Prize, the Parasol unit Artist Residency in London, the Sharpe Foundation Fellowship, the PS1 Contemporary Arts National Studio Program Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He has had solo exhibitions at the James Cohan Gallery, New York; ZenoX, Antwerp, Belgium; SAFN Museum, Reykyavik, Iceland; the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, MI; and the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
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On the High Branches, 2007
Offset lithograph
Sheet and image: 48 ¼ x 37 ¼ inches
Paper: Okawara
Edition: 40
$4,500