NO NAME GROUP : Underground Chinese Artists

New York is a dangerous place.  On any given day,  strolling home someone might stick a flyer in your hand and distract you from your route.   Sunday was such a day.  I was waylaided. 

BLOOMING
IN THE SHADOWS

China Institute Gallery

125 East 65 Street

September 15 - December 11, 2011

All nine artists from the the Wuming Group - the No Name Group had just finished their paintings by the time I arrived.  They were in the park to celebrate.  Since 1972, they had been painting in the parks and streets of Beijing.

"The artists working in Central Park today are part of an exhibition currently at the China Institute.  By working and painting in the Park, they are going back to their roots as renegade artists during CHina's Cultural Revolution.  Beginning in 1972, in an era when making unofficial art was a crime, these artists were members of a group making unofficial works, painting everyday life in the parks and streets of Beijing.  They called themselves the Wuming group - the No Name group."

THE ARTISTS:

'Du Xia
Li Shan
Liu Shi
Ma Kelu
Tian Shuying
Wang Aihe
Yan Li
Zhang Wei
Zheng Ziyan

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