As Woven — Hongshan Feng Solo Exhibition

Hongshan Feng is an artist of Chinese origin based between New York and Hangzhou. Her works bear the marks of lacquer, ink, and fired clay, invoking the vessels, books, totems, flora, and mythological creatures that have persisted across millennia in the Chinese poetic imagination.

Hongshan's paintings operate as looms: ink and oil paint are sutured together, the dark linearity of ink serving as warp, the fatty bloom of oil as weft, and the accumulation of mark-making as stitch. Her ceramic practice turns its attention to process over resolution, acquiring a fragile tenacity through the kiln, as though enacting a specifically feminine experience of time: cyclical, waiting, non-linear, and fractured.

Hongshan's work refuses the reduction to exotic cultural ornament. Each successive layer of paint, each kneading of clay, constitutes a response. Between warp and weft, her hands weave structure into every thread, until it becomes an armature that need not be seen to remain perpetually present.