Experience Crossing Art at CONTEXT Art Miami December 5-10 during Miami Art Week

Crossing Art | Booth A18   Crossing Art is thrilled to announce its participation in CONTEXT Art Miami, set to take place from December 5th to 10th, 2023, at Booth A18. Leveraging its distinctive position as a nexus between North America and Asia, Crossing Art unveils a vibrant selection of preeminent contemporary artists hailing from the United States and China: Qin Feng, Jiang Miao, Zheng Jiang, Bruce Rubenstein, Cary Hulbert, and Michael McGrath. These artists are relentless in their pursuit of pushing the frontiers within their respective artistic mediums, drawing inspiration from indigenous cultures while seamlessly blending elements of Eastern and Western traditions to create groundbreaking expressions. CONTEXT Art Miami stands as a premier international art fair, providing a platform for galleries to present cutting-edge works. Crossing Art's meticulously curated exhibit embodies a synthesis of creativity and cultural richness, seamlessly blending emerging talents with established luminaries. "We are thrilled to unveil this distinctive collection, a convergence of diverse artistic expressions," remarked Catherine Lee, founder of Crossing Art. "Our aspiration is to engender meaningful dialogue and inspiration among esteemed visitors in Miami." Attendees are cordially invited to immerse themselves in Crossing Art Gallery's curated showcase, an ode to the transformative power of art in fostering connectivity and intellectual stimulation. For comprehensive work details or invitation inquiry, please kindly reach out to Eris Liu at eris@crossingart.com.   VIP PREVIEW Tuesday, December 5 | 6:30pm - 10:00 pm REGULAR HOURS Wednesday, December 6 | 11am - 7pm Thursday, December 7 | 11am - 7pm Friday, December 8 | 11am - 7pm Saturday, December 9 | 11am - 7pm Sunday, December 10 | 11am - 6pm

Bruce Rubenstein Bruce Rubenstein is a New York City born, Los Angeles based artist that has been creating art for over forty years. Starting his artistic journey as a young child, Rubenstein came to study art at Parson’s School of Design, and became a member of the prestigious Art Students League located in New York City during the mid-70s. His formal training is imbued into even his most abstract works, which juxtapose sharp, precise brushwork with the contingent, irregular forms he is known for. Influenced primarily by the expressionist movement of the late 50s and early 60s, Rubenstein’s work is overflowing with frenetic energy. Rubenstein has exhibited in several group and solo shows worldwide since 1992. His works have been collected in a plethora of corporate spaces, including, but not limited to, Guess Inc. Corporate Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA. Qin Feng  As an artist and scholar spanning Eastern and Western cultures, Qin Feng’s works are poetically compatible with the romance of Western expressionist philosophy and the spirit of Chinese ink painting. Through multi-media research and creation, the development and application of traditional and modern materials, formal language and expressive language are more compatible with the spiritual character of Eastern and Western cultures. Build and form a personal unique language and style. His works have won several awards including the Berlin City Government Award, the Boston International Art and Literature Award, the New Century Award of the Mike Doulas Foundation, and the National Art Contribution Award. He has participated in more than a dozen auction houses including Christie's, Sotheby's, Guardian and Poly. Qin Feng creates paintings blending Western expressionism with traditional Chinese ink painting. His bold brushstrokes lyrically combine the gestural impulses of action painting with the tradition of Chinese calligraphy. Balancing the dynamic between positive and negative, black and white space, Yin and Yang within the compositions to explore the delicate harmony between humans. Jiang Miao  Jiang Miao (b.1981) graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts (printmaking department) and acquired a M.F.A degree in 2009. Jiang Miao has been strongly intrigued by ancient civilization and high wisdom since she was very young. Since 2003, she began to explore the idea of yin and yang, point and line, energy, and life interpretation, thus forming the Eastern worldview of “Nature and Man as one”. In recent years, Jiang has been working on themes on life. By applying “trigram”, “spiral” as a symbol of soul, and energy-releasing “colors” as major visuals, her works suggest living truth of spirit, the soul, and body; they absorb energy from the invisible, then, release spiritual energy and magnetic field into the physical world, casting continuous thoughts for the future civilization on the excessive materialized current world. Her works have been broadly exhibited at galleries and museums in Chinese speaking countries. Zheng Jiang  Zheng Jiang, born in Zhejiang, China in 1980, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts masters program in 2010. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Zheng Jiang's artwork delves into the fleeting and intangible nature of light, exploring how these ethereal sensations can be translated into concrete and tangible feelings through texture and composition. Simultaneously, he is interested in examining the individual's experience of survival in contemporary society and in visually effectuating the journey of such endeavors. Jiang won the Third Chinese New Generation Artist Award in 2011 and the John Moore Painting Prize the following year in 2012. He continues to gain recognition for his multimedia, dimensional approach and large-scale works. Michael McGrath Michael McGrath is an American artist and painter, with a parallel career in graphic design. He lives and works in Rhinebeck, New York's Hudson Valley. His most recent works draw inspiration from his contemporary surroundings in upstate New York and its history, as well as from his naive curiosity about the mysticism, mythology, and religious cults. His skulls and ghosts represent the afterlife and death with a dash of joy and hope. His faces are frequently those of gods, deities, or the deceased, and he believes that “…if there were gods, ghosts or magic, they would exist in nature and in the landscape; not just beings in the sky, but also in the ground, in the trees, in the flowers and in the animals.”  McGrath has given his audience the freedom to connect with their actual selves, find refuge in their own strength, and create space to become their own gods with the similar audacity of a kid. He has most recently shown work in Rhinebeck, New York, Germany, Belgium, and a solo show at Fir Gallery in Beijing, China.  Cary Hulbert Cary Hulbert is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist, educator, and curator. Hulbert received her MFA from Columbia University in 2016 and her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in 2007. She has teaching experience in the printmaking and drawing departments at both Columbia University and Mass Art while also partaking in exhibitions internationally at the Bronx Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, and the Taimiao Art Gallery in Beijing, to name a few.  Hulbert’s work merges design with art, bringing the old into the new through a playful, idyllic color palette that evokes feelings of nostalgia and ephemerality. She primarily uses colored pencil, gouache, acrylic paint, and silkscreen to materialize her imagined natural landscapes, which express alluring interactions between texture, color, and composition. One Herald Plaza (NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay), Miami, FL 33132 On Biscayne Bay between the Venetian & Macarthur Causeways