Four Accomplishments in Ink + Epic Abstraction

Liu Dan: Taihu Rock of the Liuyuan Garden, 2019, ink on xuan, @ 84 x 54 inches, at  J.J. Lally and Co. for Asia Week. Gallery Link 

Zeng Xiaojun: Poetic Pattern of Song Ware II,  2018,  ink and color on paper, @ 81 x 81 inches.

Xu Lei: Interact Trees, 2018, ink on xuan, @ 25 x 82 inches. The title refers to recprocity, interlocking and naturally defining, according to the catalog. Xu exhibited at Marlborough Gallery in 2018. Gallery Link

Just one photo of a very long scroll, presented half rolled, half out, in a case: Master of the Water, Pine, and Stone Retreat, All Natures Splendours Captured in This Gourd Heaven, 2015, ink on dragon cloud paper, @15 x 283 inches.

Above, Xu Lei. I've followed Ink Studio Beijing for some time,  as they are deeply engaged with ink and how it can be used now, so it was exciting to see an exhibition in New York, on a Sunday no less! How convenient and wonderful. 

Upstairs, some 18th century paintings on silk.

A Buddhist painting from the 17th Century.

And a Statue Robe, from 1864. Don't know what this means precisely, but quick research into robes suggests there were many to suit seasons, rank, and standing.

How I wish I got to see more, and how exciting it was to see this scroll with goats--suggested to a collector as a wonderful holiday gift.  

Shi'Tao, Returning Home, 1695, at the Met.

Welcome to Epic Abstraction: Kazuo Shiraga, Untitled, 1958.Museum Link

Isamo Noguchi's Kouros

Early Rothko!

Early Rothko!

Mark Rothko

Chakia Booker

Inoue Yuichi's Cold Mountain calligraphy, 1966

Judit Reigl's Guano, from 1959-1964

And the wondrous Louise Nevelson installation, called Ms. N's Palace, around 1958! 

Helen Frankenthaler, 1957, Western Dream. 

Alma Thomas, a work so rich the photo cannot do it justice.

Joan Snyder, a beautiful work from the 1980s

The great Joan Mitchell, La Vie en Rose, 1979.

Frank Bowling's Night Journey (1969-ish)