ONGOING ASIA WEEK NEW YORK EXHIBITION
Fluid Strength: The Art of Ink
March 13 – May 3, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, March 14th from 5-8pm
Asia Week Artist Talk Series: Sunday & Monday, March 16 &17 from 3-5pm (In-person & Online)
We are pleased to present Fluid Strength: The Art of Ink, a group exhibition during 2025 Asia Week. This exhibition explores the profound philosophical connotations of water-based ink as a medium, rooted in the Daoist concept of softness, yielding, and resilience. In East Asian art history, water and ink symbolize Yin energy—gentle yet powerful, nourishing and sustaining all life. This principle is vividly expressed in Daoist thought: “Water flows without contention, achieving great deeds by simply being natural.”
Water’s ability to adapt, nurture, and overcome reflects an essential worldview that has shaped Chinese culture, art, and philosophy for centuries. From ancient calligraphy and landscape painting to contemporary expressions, ink art embodies this enduring perspective, flowing across time and geography—from East Asia to the West.
In conjunction with the exhibition, we hosted a two-part artist talk series (March 16 & 17, 3-5pm) celebrating contemporary Asian and transcultural art. The first session, “Ink Art: The Past in the Present,” highlighted three Chinese diaspora artists—Tai Xiangzhou, Wang Mansheng, and Zhang Xiaoli—who reinvigorate classical ink traditions. The second session, “Tradition Across Borders: A Transcultural Exchange,” featured Arnold Chang, Michael Cherney, and Brandon Sadler, American artists who explore East Asian aesthetics through transcultural mediums, bridging tradition and innovation.
This exhibition invites viewers to experience the timeless power and grace of water-based ink art, celebrating its role in connecting tradition and innovation, philosophy and artistic practice.
To learn more about the exhibition, click here.
RELATD TALKS NOW ONLINE
QM Talks | Asia Week New York Artist Talk Series
We’re excited to announce that the complete video recordings of our two-part artist talk series—Ink Art: The Past in the Present and Tradition Across Borders: A Transcultural Exchange—are now available to view online!
Presented in celebration of Asia Week New York, these insightful discussions brought together six remarkable artists who explore the dynamic relationship between tradition and innovation in contemporary Asian and transcultural art. Whether you missed the live sessions or would like to revisit the conversations, you can now stream both events by clicking here.
INK ART: THE PAST IN THE PRESENT
Sunday, March 16 from 3-5pm
In-person & Online (Kindly RSVP)
The first part “Ink Art: The Past in the Present,” highlights Tai Xiangzhou, Wang Mansheng, and Zhang Xiaoli—three Chinese diaspora artists whose work draws essence from classical East Asian culture, rediscovering the evolution of tradition in the contemporary world. They discussed their innovative approaches to the ink art tradition, incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives, and share insights into their current exhibitions in esteemed institutions across the U.S.
TRADITION ACROSS BORDERS: A TRANSCULTURAL EXCHANGE
Monday, March 17 from 3-5pm
In-person & Online (Kindly RSVP)
The second part, “Tradition Across Borders: A Transcultural Exchange,” featured Arnold Chang, Michael Cherney, and Brandon Sadler—three American artists from distinct cultural backgrounds. United by their deep engagement with East Asian visual culture, they create works inspired by centuries-old traditions of East Asian painting and calligraphy. This discussion explored their transcultural practices on East Asian art through distinct artistic mediums, reflecting the interconnected realities of today’s global world and challenging cultural binaries by bridging Eastern and Western aesthetics.
To learn more about these talks, click here.
About the Gallery
We work at the intersection of East and West, contemporary and traditional. We are dedicated to exploring the visual and geographic globalization of contemporary Asian art and documenting artists’ work that resonates with classical Asian philosophy, aesthetics, and culture, with no limits on their expressive mediums.
With the rapidly evolving contemporary art scene as our backdrop, our mission is to present major artists’ creative trajectories to a wider audience through exhibitions, in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and forums for scholarly exchanges. FQM ultimately provides an educational venue where visual pleasure is paired with intellectual challenge, highlighting the broad effects of globalization, and transnational and diaspora experiences.
Our team, enriched with over a decade of experience from leading global auction houses, offers unparalleled expertise in the appraisal, dealing, and management of Chinese art. Grounded in a commitment to excellence, we are certified by the Appraisers Association of America (AAA) and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).
