Arriving back from an extended trip to China in 2006, artist Jian Wang delights us with forty paintings of delicate pastry cakes from China.  These striking and unusual oil on linen paintings add another dimension to the traditional ideal of the intimate still life paintings.  Using his stylistic abstraction, Jian sets his cakes in a strongly lit and impasto patterned background.  What appears is a visual trove of irresistible fruit, corn, bean and rice cakes from Beijing.

We view again his new intimate figure paintings and contemporary but lyrical landscapes. As James Scarborough would pen, Jian continues to balance between the “ephemeral and the timeless”. Join us for tea, sweets and tasty fruit, November 5, 2006.

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Beijing Sweets with Different Fruit Jelly Oil on Linen, 2006 14" x 21"	Sweet Rice in Bamboo Sleeves Oil on Linen, 2006 11" x 14"
Beijing Sweet with Rice Bowl Oil on Linen, 2006 13" x 14˝"	Three Beijing Sweets Oil on Linen, 2006 17" x 14"
Draped Steam Bread and Chinese Character for Happiness Oil on Linen, 2006 22" x 14˝	Bai Niangou Sweet Rice Cake with Haw Berry Oil on Linen, 2006 19" x 14" "
Fruits in a Roll Oil on Linen, 2006 17˝" x 14"