Hello! My name is Sunrise. I am from Beijing, China. Please enjoy my latest work entitled "Splash Color". I spent four years mixing and matching paints and medium to master this technique. My specialty is color.
I paint portraits, landscapes, murals, abstract. Really, all forms. I specialize in large paintings for Hotel lobbies and Corporate Businesses. I also design company logos.
Please contact me with your thoughts, offers or business. Warm Regards.
Sunrise
Sunrise Art Studio
The Sunrise Art Studio is now open in Clifton at 1212 Van Houten Ave. Art classes for kids 5 years old and up. I teach children painting, free hand painting, cartoon drawing, collage and crafts and intro to calligraphy. The goal is to develop a child's artistic intuition. Classes are $15 and hour. $10 an hour for a two hour session. They might even learn some Mandarin language. I love painting and working with children makes me very happy.
Classes are available for all ages young and old. I will adjust the teaching to a person's interest. Sketching, still life drawings, still life color, color theory, and basic painting knowledge is all available. Watercolor and oil base painting and calligraphy exercises including the basis of decorative arts. Also, computer drawing and Photoshop basics.
Sunrise Art Water Colors
Sunrise Art Chinese Ink Drawings
Sunrise Art Splash Color Oil Paintings
Sunrise standing next to "The Mountains"
I am standing next to one of my Splash Color paintings so you can get a feel of the size of many of my paintings. Except for the two paintings below me titled My Love and My Country, many of my oil paintings are approximately this size.
My love 205.5 x165.3 inches
My Gallery in Beijing displaying My Country
330 inches x 110 inches
The Birth of the Universe 55 x 55 inches
Eruption 77.9 x 55 inches
Meditation 71.2 x 55 inches
Shes A Beauty 79.1 x 55 inches
serenely 77.9 x 55 inches
Affettuoso 68.5 x 55 inches
"Nature in Blue Tweet/Woof " 63.3 x 51 inches
Jellified 71.2 x 55 inches
uranium fuel 63.3 x 51 inches
Multimodal 63.3 x 51 inches
My Country 54.3 x 54.3 inches x 12 My Country 54.3 x 54.3 inches x 12
SUNRISE IMPRESSION
The paintings of Sunrise are enchanting. Sunrise has an innate sensitivity to colors, forms and rhythm, which is perfectly expressed in her latest splash-oil painting series.
On her paintings, all the colors of the rainbow are magically blended and swirled into fascinating color mixes. Rather than being geometric, the combination of colors are more sensual, a spontaneous expression of the heart, from which the glorious and amazing images were born. There is no doubt that you will sense the bewitching power from her paintings, to name a few: "The Birth of the Universe", "Alive at the Museum", "Visions Around the Planet", "Nature in Blue Tweet/Woof", "Agitation". Simply by reading these names, you cannot help but having your imagination indulged in them for a while, and when your eyes touch her paintings, the images of rainbow colors at their very climax after having been tortured by demons, you cannot fail to feel an overwhelming power that penetrates your inner core; this is a power that drags you to interact with it, both physically and emotionally. In Sunrise's works, you can perceive the images of milkyways, galaxies, black holes in the universe, flowers, frost, four seasons on the Earth and imaginary pictures from your inner world. In a word, it is about life. There seems to be a link between her paintings and the mysticism, which remind us of the graphs drawn by Tagore when he wrote Gitanjali.
Sunrise's works are also featured by a rich feminine tone. Most of the images are related to sex. After the feminism that is expressed in some of the western-style arts had been introduced into China, its originally embedded aggressiveness was transfigured into the visual representation of women sexual experiences and their own body images, where violence is diminished, while auto catharsis, sex indulgence and narcissism speak loud. Even though the feminism displayed in Sunrise's work seems more conservative in comparison with others, the explosive inner force derives from it is incredible, to take some of her works as an example: "Bleeding Love", "Fertill", "Ying and Yang", "Explosion".
Sunrise understands very well the trend of the 20th century Chinese ink paintings thanks to her early training in this area. She also has deep insight into the principles of taoism, which lends a historical dimension to her works. In addition, she has been very active in modern and contemporary art activities in China, planning exhibitions and running galleries. These experiences allow her to be always standing at the front line of art movements. Even though her works are not of the typical avantgarde genre, the fascinating colors of Sunrise's paintings are of breathtaking power that leaves one stopping and gasping at them.
In an era when one is suffocated by the prevailing air of utilitarianism and materialism, the paintings of Sunrise allow us to breath the fresh air. If you intend to seduce someone to make love, do it where one can see the beautiful rainbow.
Zhaohui ZHANG April, 2010, Yunheyuan