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“Eight Chinese female artists will present their works of different styles and personalities in this exhibition. But they all love this imperfect world! In the special year of 2020, they want to show not only their talents, but also their hope for a better future for mankind! I wish the exhibition a complete success!” ~ He Yunlan, senior consultant of the Chinese Female Painters Association and established Chinese Ink Artist.

It is a great honor to participate in the Chinese Contemporary Art Series Exhibition hosted by ACCA Gallery, Beverly Hills, as a painter and exhibition co curator. As a painter, it is more to discover and create beauty. What is more enjoyable is to organize artists who have the same emotion as me to spread beauty in the form of exhibitions and spread our love for life. ~ Han Ying, artist and co-curator of this exhibition.

Viewing Room Exhibition: October 16th, 2020 - April 30th, 2021

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Exhibition Curator: Maya N. Ito (United States)

Exhibition Curator: Han Ying (China)

Exhibition Consultant: He Yunlan, Chinese Female Painters Association and established Ink Artist. (China)

Media: Li Hailang, chief editor of ArtTouch | Video editor: Yang Qiaoling and James Dou

Director of Photography: Omari Washington

Exhibiting artists: Han Ying , Yuanqing Deng, Xiao Lu, Honglin Liu, Xiaofei Yue, Yan Zhang, Zhaolin Ma, Li Wei

ACCA is pleased to present WATER. Art is resilient, has proven to survive under any circumstances and like water knows no boundaries. Our foreign relations to China are strong and we want to bring talented artists to the attention of the American and Chinese public on a larger scale. Our International Director, Maya Ito has assembled in close collaboration with China’s leading creatives a very significant collection of Chinese contemporary art. However famous they become, we appreciate your help to make their career successful. ~ ACCA Gallery Director, Carlos Benitez

Exhibition Curator Statement by

~ Maya N. Ito, ACCA International Gallery Director

The ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi said that "the highest excellence is like that of water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike. Hence it is near to the Tao."

Water can transform into a pot of tea, a cup of coffee, or a bottle of wine. It is also the medium of ink and wash. I am honored to join forces with the artist Ms. Han Ying to present this online exhibit. These are eight artists of varying ages, styles and departures from the traditions of Chinese ink painting, yet who all share the tradition of excellence in Chinese ink painting. These eight female artists present their contemporary ink and wash art under the common, unifying theme that gives this online exhibition its simple yet powerful name: "Water."

From these works, we can see the modern transformation of traditional Chinese painting. While inheriting traditional Chinese ink and wash, their works also incorporate the influence of Western oil painting, with implicit expression and bold technique, which transfix the audience like water. A new and unexpected surprise, their art lets the audience appreciate each of their unique charms, but also provides insight into the trendy thoughts of modern Chinese women. We look forward to these delightfully bold and artistic works providing some relief from the pandemic. For their courage and encouragement, I would like to thank the art consultant for this exhibition, the Chinese ink artist Ms. He Yunlan, our academic consultant, the Chinese poet Ms. Huang Lin, the art advisor of Acca Gallery, Michael Sean Degnan ，our media consultant, Ms. Li Hailang, editor-in-chief of ArtTouch, our video editor, Ms. Yang Qiaoling, my co-curator, Ms. Han Ying, and, of course, our eight outstanding women artists, who send special love in the pandemic of 2020.

Exhibition Statement by

~ Dr. Huang Lin, Beijing Capital University Art Professor, renowned poet and academic consulting of this exhibit.

Because ink painting pays attention to cultural heritage, and historically, Chinese women could not take the male-only imperial examinations, it was extremely difficult for women to receive systematic advanced cultural education. In traditional Chinese ink and wash art, female artists were indeed rare. The modern women's liberation movement in China began with educational reform. When women were given equal educational opportunities like men, especially when women secured studios of their own, a new generation of female artists was born. Although women have still to overcome greater systemic difficulties in art than men, many also choose to make time for childbirth, child-rearing and housework, and less than full time on their art; thereby making it all the more difficult to obtain recognition of their achievements, both by the more narrow art world, and by society at large. The best of them, however, have overcome the challenges of balancing their life with their art. Their art tells the stories of the interaction between themselves and the world, incorporating female motifs and aspects like water and tenderness. Undoubtedly, their art is unique and full of vitality. After passing through the rapids of individual lives and personal growth, they make their voices heard in the deep, still waters of this traditional form.

The artist's exploration of ink art is indeed of extraordinary academic value, demonstrating to new generations the extraordinary aesthetic and academic value of women artist's exploration of traditional ink art forms.

The "observation cat," which has never appeared in traditional ink and wash works, expresses Han Ying's thinking about the state of the modern world and the people inhabiting it, material and spiritual freedoms and restraints.

“The Xiang Wan “series, lets us see Deng Yuanqing's thinking about relative time and space, which is full of poetry.

In Ma Zhaolin's portrait series, beautiful, sentimental, and lyrical movements touch the heart.

Li Wei's series of works rewrites the stylized images of traditional ink and wash themes, giving the ancient images a modern, decorative feel.

Zhang Yan uses still life to explore the power of movement of ink.

Lu Xiao‘s shallow mountains, shallow waters and symbiosis, with a moving structure presents nature and people breathing together, calling for environmental protection, a rallying cry for the 2020 global village.

Yue Xiaofei's work contrasts safety with a dangerous game, focusing on small details, and seeing the big story thru them.

Liu Honglin boldly applies oil painting techniques to ink and wash, expressing a kind of courage with color and story.

Exhibition Statement by

~ Michael Sean Degnan, Art advisor of ACCA Gallery.

I am very impressed with people who both work in watercolor and with ink on paper. The difference between ink on paper and oil on canvas is each stroke of ink has to be perfect there is no going back and fixing it you can literally scrape wet oil off the canvas and redo, while the Chinese artists are very precise and technical for this reason in some of these works that we are showing today we see artist breaking out from the confines of the very rigid ink on paper still maintaining some strict cultural guidelines they are branching out which will ultimately be appealing to a western market.

Exhibition Catalogue Raisonné

Viewing Room Exhibition: October 16th, 2020 - April 30th, 2021

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Exhibition is in Hangzhou, China for Chinese and Foreign Collectors. Gao's Dynasty Solo Show, exhibited in Beverly Hills earlier this year and now travels to China.

Hosted by ACCA Gallery Carlos Benitez, Director and Maya Ito, International Asian Business Director.

Panelists: Maya Ito, ACCA Gallery International Asian Business Director. | Carlos Benitez, ACCA Gallery Director. | Asher David Kelman, Sculptor and Photographer. | Michael Sean Degnan, Senior Art consultant Judge and member of the Mondial Art Academia.

Exhibiting Gao's solo exhibition in Beverly Hills was a tremendous pleasure. The sophisticated finished in his work, are of great interest. In full view, his expressions of En plein air captured the spirit and essence of natural light, color and movement. Throughout the artworks you see the presence of symbols, Chinese stamps and a unique red pigment color highlighting feelings but also bringing balance to emotions and chaos, allowing you to interpret your own narrative. Carlos Benitez wrote

Highlights from — Gao's Dynasty in China

Exhibition August 1 - 29th, 2020

Opening night will be on Saturday, August 1st, 2020 from 6:30-8 pm

Read what some of our Guests have to say…

"This was a challenging exhibition. I congratulate the team at ACCA on their success at presenting such an event in difficult times. I hope that this initiative can expand to include artists from Asia" -Geoff N, UK Education Consultant

”An eye opening experience. The bounds of art are endless " - Juanita Sangha, public relations advisor of MCPA

“It is a great online reception and exhibition I have participated so far. You can see artist's works, and at the same time you can directly face the artists, who are talking about their atworks. It was rare opotunity” I enjoyed it.- Artist Lingfeng

"A very interesting and fruitful event. We can hear the idea of the artists behind their works. This is great. Thank you" - Mary Wong, writer from Hong Kong

Recording of the event available in ACCA Gallery YouTube Channel.

Curated by Leon Mostovoy in collaboration with West Hollywood, Trans Artist Grant.

Hosted by ACCA Gallery Carlos Benitez, Director and Maya Ito, International Asian Business Director.

Moderated by: Buck Angel, inspirational and empowerment influencer.

Artists Q&A’s : Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic, curator and author.

The Artist Tree art announcement.

Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. She is the Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly, and a contributor to Whitehot, Flaunt, Art & Cake, and Artillery.

Buck Angel is an American pornographic film actor and producer, sex educator, and a motivational speaker. He is the founder of Buck Angel Entertainment, a media production company.

Leon Mostovoy is a transgender artist who has been creating on the front lines of the queer and political art movements for decades. Formerly Tracy, Mostovoy started his queer art career producing erotic images for On Our Backs magazine in the early 1980s.

Carlos Benitez is an art dealer / entrepreneur founder of ACCA Gallery. Representing works from Jean-Michel Basquiat to The World’s most valuable chess set by Colin Burn. He developed a reputation for staging quality exhibitions of contemporary art from Los Angeles to Miami.

Maya Ito is an Asian Business Director/Partner of ACCA Gallery. Fluent in Chinese-Mandarin and Japanese, she leads and implements Asian business development strategies. Maya comes from Marubeni Corporation Tokyo, handling international business, volunteer counsel member of the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica and volunteered at the Getty Museum.

Featuring artists: (click artist name to preview artworks)

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, Zackary Drucker, Marval A. Rex, Ianna Book, Tarrah von Lintel & Eliza Blow, Lola Flash, Rachel Mason, Johnny Cubert White, Victor Wilde, Chris J. Russo, Tracy Richardson, Sam Feder, Mark Dektor, Jett Garrison, and Nora Rachel, Felicita Felli Maynard, Luis Carle, Ajamu. Meet artists.

All works are available to sell at ACCA Gallery.

The exhibition will focus on the "Present" embracing the diversity in our community from different ideological perspectives, age, race, color, gender, and sexuality. We want to mend the schism that separates us within the community and honor our strengths and differences without judgment. Learn more.

This exhibition will also include a zoom presentation with artists introducing themselves and talking about the origin of the work they are presenting. An artist Q&A with Shana Nys Dambrot will follow this from 6:30-8 pm. Zoom presentation will be streamed live.

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