MCD’s Design Council presents
Drinks and Design: Wanxin Zhang
Wednesday, June 26 | 6:00 PM–8:00 PM

Join Bay Area artist Wanxin Zhang and the Museum of Craft and Design’s Design Council during SF Design Week for an exclusive walk-through of the exhibition Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey. Enjoy drinks and conversation in the exhibition with Zhang, exhibition co-curator Ariel Zaccheo and the Catharine Clark Gallery. 

About the Artist and Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey
Wanxin Zhang was born in ChangChun in China, and spent his formative years in the 1960’s and 70’s under Mao’s regime. He was part of the first generation to receive a formal art education in college subsequent to the Cultural Revolution in 1976. After moving to California in the early 1990s, Zhang was inspired by the work of Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson and Stephen De Staebler.

Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey is the first museum solo presentation of Wanxin Zhang’s work in San Francisco. This exhibition is a survey of Zhang’s ceramic sculpture from 2006 to 2017 and celebrates the artist’s signature style—a hybrid of California Funk influence and nods to Chinese history. Zhang’s monumental clay figures are at once irreverent and troubling, evoking the tension inherent in globalization, politics and power. He demonstrates this through his mastery of the malleable qualities of clay, reshaping traditional symbols and iconography with contemporary pop culture. A publication accompanying the exhibition featuring a comprehensive essay by Deborah Bishop will be available for purchase in the museum store.

Presented in partnership with the Catharine Clark Gallery.

Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey is generously supported by Dorothy Saxe, Pamela and David Hornik, Lorna Meyer-Calas and Dennis Calas, Kathleen Grant, MD and Thomas Jackson MD, Marcy Friedman, Doctors Julio R Blanco and David J Manno and Janet Mohle-Boetani. In-Kind support provided by Hunter Douglas, Studio Hinrichs, Sappi Paper and Hard Six Cellars.

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