Cui Fei: Solo Exhibition and Artist Lecture

The Warehouse Gallery is currently exhibiting a solo museum exhibition by Cui Fei, closing on Nov. 6, 2010. Cui Fei will discuss her new site-specific works on Oct. 12 at 6:30PM at Shemin Auditorium inside Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse University.
 
Sept. 30, 2010 - PRLog -- Chinese-born, New York City-based Cui is a rising artist whose nature imagery draw upon the vulnerability of life, her own life, tradition, and Chinese history.  Nature is a recurring theme in her drawings, pigment prints, and installations that evoke Chinese calligraphy through the use of twigs and thorns from black locus and honey locus trees.  For The Warehouse Gallery, Cui created five works, consisting of pigment prints; drawings using 9,000 thorns glued onto paper or mounted with twine onto the wall; an installation using salt (as a reference to the history of Syracuse); and a healing piece made of sand, referring to the rich tradition of sand drawing by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans.

With the assistance of ten Syracuse University students from the Sculpture Program and the Illustration Program in the Department of Art, the Graduate Program in Museum Studies in the Department of Design, and the Department of Transmedia, Cui created over a period of seven days her wall drawing and two installations on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery again into a form of laboratory.  For Tracing the Origin VIII, Cui reprinted images of twigs that were transferred by students from the paper onto the floor, using pencil, transfer paper, sand, and chakpurs.  For Manuscript of Nature V_Syracuse, Cui poured 300 pounds of salt onto the floor in the main gallery on which she placed the twigs to allude to Chinese writing following the reading order from top to bottom, right to left.  Though widely exhibited, this is her first solo museum exhibition.

The exhibition runs until November 6.  There will be an artist lecture on October 12, 6:30PM where Cui Fei will discuss her new site-specific works on exhibit at The Warehouse Gallery.  The lecture will be held at Shemin Auditorium in the Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse University.


The Warehouse Gallery is open and free to the public.  It is located in downtown Syracuse, NY at 350 W. Fayette St., ground floor.  Gallery hours: Tue-Sat noon- 6PM; th3 noon -8PM; closed on holidays.  Limited parking is available in The Warehouse Lot (WHSE); call SU Parking Services for details (315) 443-4652.  The gallery is on the Connective Corridor Free Shuttle Route, see Centro#543.  For more information, please visit http://TheWarehouseGallery.syr.edu or call 315.443.6450.

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THE WAREHOUSE GALLERY is an international contemporary art venue. The gallery's mission is to present artists whose work engages the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating critical issues of our life and times.
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