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Past Exhibit

International Modern Brush Painting

October 9 - 27, 2006
reception: October 26, 2006

International Modern Brush Painting Exhibition is a traveling exhibition curated by renowned art critic, Professor Daojian Pi in China, featuring sixteen preeminent modern brush painters in the world. This exhibition premiered in Changliu Art Museum in Taiwan in January 2005, and since then traveled to more than fifteen museums, universities and art centers in Taiwan. The exhibition now is touring the United States and will be on view in New York; Chicago; Columbia, Missouri; and San Francisco.

Artists invited for this exhibition include Xingjian Gao of France, a well-known artist and winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000; Professor Kuo-sung Liu from Taiwan, the leader and one of the most important artists of modern brush painting movement in the Chinese art world; Chin-Taa Yuan, an eminent figure and senior professor at the National Taiwan Normal University; Professor Lampo Leong from the University of Missouri-Columbia, an influential artist in bridging the gaps between Western painting and brush painting, artistic creation and digital technologies; Zijian Liu, Quan Liang and Deshu Qiu from China are all advocates and leaders for modern brush painting movement; senior professors Soo-Ryun Song and Soo-Gil Kim, from the Chung-Ang University and Silla University respectively, are both significant artists and principal figures in modern brush painting in South Korea.

Works of these artists have been shown in some of the most important museums in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Korea, England, France, Germany and the United States, such as Guggenheim Museum in New York, Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the Cantor Center for the Visual Art at Stanford University. We are very fortunate to have such a magnificent international art exhibition come to the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia; it is a spectacular event for the art community in the Columbia area.

This exhibition will be on display in the George Caleb Bingham Gallery from October 9 to October 27, 2006. A public reception will be held in the gallery on Thursday, October 26, 2006, from 4:00-6:00 pm.

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exhibit poster