VEFA Gallery presents Veiled Resonance – Zhengyao Zuo Chinese Master Artist Solo Exhibition By Contributor and Artist Lynne LaFleur
Master Artist Zhengyao Zuo
This solo exhibition by Chinese Master Artist Zhengyao Zuo bridges the meditative depth of Chan Buddhism with the material rigor of traditional Chinese porcelain and ink painting.
Sacred Grove XVIII
An Ink Painting workshop with Master Zhengyao Zuo will be held Sunday, January 4th from 11am to 3pm – only 16 seats are available. This is not a demonstration or lecture. This is a rare, hands-on transmission of knowledge and the expressive power of traditional ink painting, brush control, saturation and breath-driven movement. This teaching will demonstrate how the artist mixes paint pigment with ink and how to saturate this highly absorbent paper, which is made exclusively in Asia.
Each participant receives a personal calligraphy and ink set and fine art materials to keep, direct personal instruction and critique from Master Zuo, and a thoughtfully prepared lunch shared in company.
Notice the perspective Zhenhyao Zuo has chosen when painting plants – at eye level - we are no more significant than these plants, a philosophy in the Buddhist sutra that plants are the soul of Earth, the skin of the earth, holding the Earth together.
Han’s Frontier
Encompassing both his multidisciplinary artistry of porcelain and color paintings on paper, the viewer experiences the interplay between tradition and innovation, Eastern and Western philosophies.
After spending a decade in Jingdezhen, the historic porcelain capital of China, Zuo immersed himself in a lineage of craftsmanship that dates over a 1,000 years. His porcelain vessels, fired through elemental ritual, are at once sculptural objects and vessels of breath, time and transformation. For every masterpiece there are a thousand broken pieces, three to five days at 1200º and if the temperature varies even 3 degrees the piece is broken.
(upper left clockwise: Venetian echoes, Millennial Vine II, The Tail II, Millennial Vine)
Veiled Resonance Closing Ceremony will be Saturday, January 10th from 6 to 9pm. For more information on this exhibition, please visit VEFA Gallery’s website www.vefagallery.com.
VEFA Gallery is a contemporary art gallery bringing global artistic discourse to Southern California. Their mission is to bring together artists from as wide a range of perspectives as possible around a topic that is relevant today.
VEFA Gallery is located at 21825 Hawthorne Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503
Wednesday – Sunday 12 to 6pm and by appointment.
Lynne LaFleur attended Malaga Cove School, Lunada Bay Elementary, and Chadwick School, received her BFA from Pratt Art Institute in Brooklyn and has lived in New York City, Colorado and Northern California before returning to Palos Verdes in the late 1980s.
For more information, please contact Lynne at “lynnelf1@gmail.com”- The Centennial Celebration poster and all the individual illustrations (both as fine art giclée prints and as educational posters) are available for purchase from her website: www.lynnelafleur.com Facebook: LynneLaFleurArtist Instagram: “lynnelf1”