Opening Art Reception - Hongnian Zhang, Lois Woolley, and Renee Zhang

Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, May 17 to celebrate three artists from upstate New York with a deep connection to our firm. There will be great art, sparkling conversation, and good food and wine. Please bring a friend and share the word.

We welcome Hongnian Zhang, his wife Lois Woolley, and his daughter Renee Zhang to our office gallery in Berkeley. All accomplished artists with unique styles, their art arrives at our firm through a nearly forty-year-old connection with our founding partner Kate Campbell.

Forty years ago Kate traveled to Beijing, China as a foreign exchange language student. There she met a local artist, who welcomed her into his family, his life and his art. Zhang Hongnian was a renowned national painter in the 1980s, having been the youngest artist ever to be appointed to the Beijing Art Academy (1974) and the youngest artist to be elected to the All China Artists Association (1979). But, as a specialist in Western-style oil painting, his desire was to move to the United States to broaden his knowledge of Western art. Along with a classmate, and their families and friends, Kate arranged for Hongnian to travel to the US where he has lived and thrived as an artist ever since.

The art on display represents the legacy of this friendship, the tale of an artist who bridges the cultures of China and America, and the creative family that grew in the United States. We look forward in sharing their art with you.

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