News Release

CHAPEL HILL – This month, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill printmaking students will be studying with Chinese artist Zheng Xue Wu, whose works have been displayed in the United States, Australia, France and Japan.

Wu will also be delivering a free public lecture on Thursday (Nov. 18) at 7 p.m. in the Hanes Art Center auditorium to discuss his work and contemporary artists and galleries in China.

Zheng Xue Wu is a well-known and much-exhibited modern Chinese artist known as a part of the "songzhuang" and "yuan Ming Yuan" group of artists that has been active and influential in Beijing since the early 1990s. His work has explored both the medium and the meanings of printing. He is best known for his large-scale multi-impression hand-colored images that are carefully assembled using old print-shop ideograph blocks, his own carved linoleum blocks and found objects. His newest works feature collage, brush painting and the incorporation of objects that diversify the picture surface.

Work by Wu will be on display at the Ackland Art Museum through Dec. 5 and in the art department office gallery, 101 Hanes Art Center through Nov. 30. Work produced in collaboration with the printmaking students will be exhibited in the John and June Alcott Undergraduate Gallery from Nov. 28-Dec. 10.

This project was made possible by the art department and the Carolina Asia Center.

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Art department contact: Rebekah Tolley, (919) 928-9197
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Dee Reid, (919) 843-6339