Celebrating Asian Art

Fung Ming Chip: Traces of Time

March 17-May 20, 2023
65 East 80th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY, 10075

Beginning March 17th, 2023, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art will mount a special presentation of Chinese artist Fung Ming Chip's (冯明秋, born 1951) latest series, Number Series, while also showcasing the artist’s unique approach to the medium of shufa (书法, the art of writing) through a selection of works taken from across his long career. An accomplished poet, playwright, essayist, and seal carver, Fung’s latest works deconstruct shufa by exploring the connection between writing, self-representation, and time.

On view through May 20th, Traces of Time features 19 works that illuminate Fung Ming Chip’s evolving art practice and calligraphic philosophy in the past four decades. In the newest series Number Script, Fung builds upon his past experiments, using successive layers of Arabic numbers, inky washes, and calculated excisions to transcribe his full process of creation. Every action-from the first stroke of his brush to his final affixture of his seals–is clearly legible on the page. Each work thus functions as an unbroken transcription of Fung’s artistic process and, by extension, a portrait of the artist himself.

The exhibition is curated by Dr. Daniel Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.