April-May 2000, Shanghai No. 1

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April-May 2000, Shanghai No. 1

Artist Xiaoze Xie (Chinese, born 1966)

Date2001

Dimensions52 3/4 × 75 in. (134 × 190.5 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGiven in honor of Andria Derstine, Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

Object number

2021.3

Not on View

DescriptionDepicts two stacks of Chinese newspapers, folder over each other with a dark, neutral background. The painting combines a long tradition of still-life painting with photorealism. Based on a photograph, it has an edginess to its realism with its lack of complete focus at the edges of the top of the stack of papers.

Published ReferencesHeartney, Eleanor, Xiaoze Xie 2001-2003: Fragmentary Views, New York City, Charles Cowles Gallery, 2004, p. 2, repr. (col.).

Collier, Ric, Jim Edwards, and Regina Hackett, The Daily News, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City Art Center, 2005, p. 3 repr. (col.).

Mills, Dan, Britta Erickson, and Karen Smith, Xiaoxe Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008), Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Samek Gallery, Bucknell University, 2010, p. 10 repr.

Exhibition HistorySalt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY; Boise Art Museum, ID, The Daily News, 2005-2006.

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University; Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville Museum of Art; Eugene, Oregon, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at University of Oregon; Lewistown, Maine, Bates College Museum of Art, Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008), 2010-2012.

Toledo Museum of Art, Global Conversations: Art in Dialogue, March 9, 2019-August 16, 2020.