Ruxue Zhang

About

Ruxue Zhang received her BFA in Oil Painting from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2015, and her MFA in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2018. Her work has been exhibited at CULT/Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, Root Division, Embark Gallery, and Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, at Cal State University in Los Angeles, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, and at the CAFA Museum in Beijing. Zhang has multiple works in the collection of Fidelity Investments, CAFA Museum in Beijing, and private collectors.

“Whether depicting moonlight on hands, various renderings of a tesseract, celestial bodies, or un-folded paper with zeros and ones suggesting one's place in our solar system, Zhang’s work offers a moment to reflect on the significance we give to the objects that give us perspective. Zhang meticulously renders moments over and again, referencing previous paintings through a mediated layer of time and space. Using humor and nostalgia, Zhang’s work floats between the familiar and the bizarre. Toilet bowls, lovingly rendered, float in space, and faceless figures embody empty architectural spaces. Zhang’s process utilizes photography and depictions of paintings within paintings within paintings to alter time and space and present an uncanny reality that defies easy answers.” — CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions