Solo Show, Artist: Chen Ruo Bing

Chen Ruo Bing, born in 1970 in Nantong, is a Chinese artist whose abstract color painting merges Eastern tradition and Western contemporary art. According to The New York Times critic Ken Johnson: “The quiet abstract paintings by Chen Ruo Bing at Taguchi provide a contemplative respite. Working on medium-size canvases, he creates simple compositions: grids of gray boxes centered on monolithic forms and, in one case, a square delineated by four purple brush strokes on a yellow field. The main interest lies in the rich colors stained into the canvas, which glow with Rothko-esque incandescence. The work is a fine blend of formalism, hedonism and Transcendentalism.”