Amy Lee Gallery is pleased to announce that the artist Liu Yun’s solo exhibition “Breeze Passes”. This exhibition will showcase more than 20 new works created by Liu Yun since the 2017 China Art Museum's solo exhibition “Lingshan Xiushui”. It includes "Cangshan Wind and Warm", "Qingshan Cui", "Qingdao Xiaoyue", "Songfeng Melodious" and other series. This is also the first solo exhibition of Amy Li Gallery and Liu Yun.

Liu Yun graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Hunan Normal University. He first used oil painting as a medium to create. He expressed the connotation of Chinese painting in the form of Western painting. Because of this innovative painting method, it attracted widespread attention in the art world. Later, turning to the creation of Chinese painting can be said to return to a more free and familiar expression environment. Liu Yun’s Chinese paintings are called “new green mountains and rivers”. The works add the language of the western painting plane on the basis of the traditional green mountains and rivers, and integrate and unify the language of Western paintings and Chinese paintings to form a modern aesthetic and artistic conception. In recent years, he has been constantly exploring in the field of painting. Different techniques complement each other in the picture, which constitutes Liu Yun's unique artistic style and creates the style of “new landscape painting”.

Unlike traditional Chinese painting, Liu Yun has a unique approach to color use. Cyan, azurite, stone green and thick ink color contrast, large-area multi-level smudge, and geometrical color arrangement to express the landscape. On the basis of the overall uniform color tone, the lines are connected to different color blocks to bring an immersive atmosphere in the plane still landscape. The white space hidden in the black clusters of mountains also adds a richer visual element to the picture.

The scenery inspiration in Liu Yun's works comes from the Huxiang area where he lives. These memories from the sketches are constantly deposited and recalled. The scenery of the villages and people gradually disappears into the landscape of the mountains and lakes, and the scenery jumps out of the inherent space. With the limitations of time, it gradually becomes the expression of the artist's inner spirit. The title "Breeze Passing" is not only a series before, but also an expression of another humanistic spirit that is consistent with Liu Yun's painting style and artistic concept. The scenery in the painting is light and warm, and does not require the grandeur of the grand narrative. The artist's perception of life and the way he paints are intertwined in the painting and merge into one.

Liu Yun is currently a director of the China Artists Association, a member of the Chinese Painting Society, a vice president of the Chinese Artists Association Heshan Painting Association, the president of the Hunan Provincial Painting Academy, and the vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

The exhibition opens on Nov 3 at 4pm.