Year of Ox #3 Print

LU HONG is a contemporary Chinese American artist, born in Qin Huang Dao, a coastal city of Northern China. After graduating high school, he attended one of the most prestigious art schools in China, Central Academy of Art and Craft. However, he was expelled by the authorities next year because of his political and academic dissident. He moved to the United States, living and working in Los Angeles, California since 1985. ​​​​​​​ As a Chinese American painter, I'm interested in creating a personal style of mixture with modern, art nouveau and Chineses ink art, by using mixed mediums (water based material, such as water based material, water color, gouache, acrylic and ink) applied on Rice Paper. Maybe because I'm a Chinese, I feel comfortable and emotionally more related to paper, especially rice paper than canvas. Also I like the free spirit of water based material than oils. Beside some ancient oriental art, I've studied western artists such as Paul Klee, Odilon Redon, René Magritte and some other European modernist; I'm also fascinated by primitive arts, ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, and Mayan arts. I've been inspired by mythology, ancient legends, ethnic genesis, folklore and fairytales, and recently I get more feelings about nature and bio evolution, or the ideas about Unity of Nature, which provides a perfect opportunity to meditate, or contemplate the thinking of the west intertwined with the thinking of the east, and lead me into a new artistic development in future.