Under Heaven and Beyond Form: Celestial Tales of Tai Xiangzhou
January 3 – February 21, 2026
We are delighted to present our second solo exhibition with Tai Xiangzhou, Under Heaven and Beyond Form: Celestial Tales of Tai Xiangzhou. The exhibition brings together three significant series that span the artist’s career—Celestial Tales, The Milky Way, and Kunlun—juxtaposed to form a sustained dialogue. Taking ink as its conceptual and material foundation, the exhibition systematically traces Tai’s artistic inquiry into cosmological thought, material elements, and pictorial traditions, articulating his sustained engagement with the transformation of ink painting in a contemporary context.
Rooted in ancient Chinese cosmology and the historiography of landscape painting (shan shui), Tai Xiangzhou’s practice engages in parallel with contemporary scientific discourse. Rather than pursuing a mimetic representation of the natural world, Tai interrogates the internal pictorial structures, spatial logic, and metaphysical principles that underlie the Chinese landscape tradition, using them as a framework through which to articulate an understanding of cosmic order. Through three closely related series, the exhibition unfolds as a cumulative and stratified viewing experience.
Taken together, these works reveal Tai Xiangzhou’s practice as one that does not seek to reconcile tradition and the contemporary, but rather treats tradition as an active, generative framework. By repositioning ink painting as a site of cosmological inquiry and material experimentation, Under Heaven and Beyond Form: Celestial Tales of Tai Xiangzhou foregrounds ink not as a historical medium, but as an evolving system of thought capable of engaging both ancient philosophy and contemporary modes of understanding the universe.
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RECENTLY CLOSED EXHIBITION
Constance Fong: A Joyous Nature
November 12 – December 20, 2025
We are pleased to present Constance Fong: A Joyous Nature, a solo exhibition celebrating the artist’s lifelong dialogue with life. Centered on the theme of nature, the exhibition explores how Constance (Connie) Fong transforms landscapes and everyday objects into a language of reflection and joy. On view from November 12 to December 20, 2025, the reception will take place on Saturday, November 22, from 5 to 8 PM. We invite you to step into Connie’s serene and radiant world.
Constance T. Fong descends from the Tang lineage of Pi’ling (now Changzhou) in Jiangsu Province—a family that upheld the scholarly traditions of Jiangnan, the culturally rich region south of the Yangtze River known for its literati refinement and artistic heritage, while actively engaging in China’s early modernization. Born in Wuxi and raised in Shanghai, she later pursued her education in the United States, growing up at the confluence of two cultures. Her earliest artistic awakening began with crayons and sketches, through which she encountered the sensibility and discipline of Western art. Over the years, through the close companionship and support of her husband, Wen C. Fong (1930-2018), one of the most eminent Chinese art historians in the US, her appreciation for Chinese art and antiquities became an integral part of daily life. For Connie, Chinese art was not merely an object of study or admiration but, through continual immersion, a way of life. In studying the works of Bada Shanren (1626–1705) and Qi Baishi (1864–1957), she developed a refined sensitivity to the playfulness of brush and ink, its expressive vitality and resonant charm.
Like those two classical masters, she focused not on grand themes but on the intimate details of everyday life—finding beauty in the delicate moments: the brightness of a single flower, the posture of a cat, the fine tracing of a leaf. In studying the old masters, she also learned to capture the vitality of living things with her brush. Drawn to diagonal compositions, she discovered in them a dynamic tension between disruption and renewal. In one of her paintings, beneath the blossoms, a black cat sits in stillness, its gaze both calm and alert; the red petals unfurl as if in quiet reply. In Connie’s vision, the world is supple and alive, all things share a silence that speaks beyond words.
This sensibility also shaped her landscapes, transforming perception and emotion into form. Connie once remarked that the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York reminded her of Chinese shanshui—as though the rocks had crossed from one dream into another, their forms echoing those in classical painting. She often painted in the literati spirit of jixie, reconstructing scenery from memory rather than drawing directly from life. The nature in her paintings is less a record of what is seen than a reflection of her inner state. This approach echoes with the literati ideal of xieyi, to convey the idea rather than the form, rooting her practice in tradition while remaining open to the sensations of the present.
In her works, color is an extension of thought. She favors Windsor & Newton watercolors for their richness and purity, which provide a stable and vital foundation for her palette. Connie’s art does not seek the avant-garde; it grows quietly out of honesty and reflection. The strength of her work lies in this sincerity, in her unwavering attentiveness to the world within.
Connie paints with purity and persistence, transforming the rhythm of daily life into color and form. The flowers, mountains, and animals in her work embody a childlike curiosity toward life itself—at once vast and intimate, expansive and delicate. In an age of noise and haste, her art offers a personal way of seeing, a return to the innate way of looking. It carries within it a humble understanding of the world and a gentle response to it.
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RECENT EXHIBITION
Shufa Essentials
September 11 – October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5-8pm
Special Autumn 2025 Weekend Hours: Saturday, Sept 13, 3-6pm; Sunday, Sept 14, kindly contact for hours
We are delighted to announce Shufa Essentials, an exhibition dedicated to the art of Shufa—commonly translated as “Chinese calligraphy”—during this Autumn 2025 season. Shufa is rooted in a different framework that is shaped by the unique nature of Chinese characters—logographs that are at once visual, phonetic, and ideographic. This foundation allows Shufa to unite language, philosophy, and artistic expression into a single art form. Perhaps the best translation is to embrace Shufa as its own term. In the hands of the artist, characters unfold not only as words but also as pure form, alive with cadence, rhythm, and energy.
For more than two thousand years, artists have used brush, ink, and paper not only as tools of writing but as instruments of expression. Every stroke is a trace of the artist’s presence—a line shaped by rhythm, vitality, and state of mind. With no erasures and no second chances, each mark preserves the immediacy of its making, a visible record of body and spirit joined in a single moment.
This exhibition highlights three principles at the heart of the tradition. The centered use of the brush channels balance and strength into every stroke. Handmade paper, unyielding yet responsive, registers each decision without disguise. And Qi—often described as breath or vital energy—animates the work, infusing it with rhythm, mood, and life.
Through selected works and interpretive guides, Shufa Essentials invites visitors to follow the artist’s hand, sense the flow of ink on paper, and encounter Shufa as one of China’s most profound and enduring artistic traditions—an art that is at once writing and image, continuity and expression, discipline and spirit.
We look forward to welcoming you to our opening reception on September 11, and don’t forget to join us for a special artist demonstration with Fung Ming-Chip that Saturday afternoon! Learn more here.
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Gallery Videos
We’re excited to offer video recordings of our past tours, talk series and artist insights on our website – available to view anytime!
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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).
