Witness to growth
Contributors: Yuan yang yi shu zhong xin (Beijing, China)
Publisher: East Modern Art Center
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Beijing, China
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789737678805
Subjects: Women in art; Exhibitions; Pictorial works; Women
Description: "This exhibit includes... a set of fifteen paintings chronicling the artist's life and focuses on the absolutely mundane, but with such intensity that we are led from contemplation of the commonplace to an appreciation of the broader currents of life."
Notes: Yu Hong is among the most highly regarded figurative painter, widely celebrated for her intimate, unpretentious, and highly tactile work. She and a small group of colleagues became known as the "New Generation" artists, known for their highly personal figurative works. In her series works "Witness to Growth," she recreates a personal photograph by isolating the figures and then painting them against monochromatic blocks of color. Yu Hong graduated from the oil painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1995 and currently teaches there.

The text, titled Poetry of everyday existence, was written by Britta Erickson.