CLASS OF EASE

PAINTINGS EXHIBITION OF DR. YUHUA SHOUZHI WANG

A Brief Introduction to Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wang

Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wang is recognized as a preeminent international artist of first-class standing.

Dr. Wang is a virtuoso of color. She was a professor at Auburn University for nine years. In 2008, the United States Congress exhibited her sculptures and paintings in the Gold Room in the Rayburn Congressional Building which received rave reviews. Professor Stephen Farthing of the University of the Arts in London, United Kingdom, determined that “Professor Wang’s paintings reach across cultures to celebrate the space that exists intellectually and emotionally between representation and abstraction, between a fact and an idea…Dr. Wang’s paintings may draw heavily on the traditions of Eastern art, but they present themselves as extraordinarily Western ideas and images.”

In 2010, her painting Lotus Delight (2.3 square feet in size) was auctioned in San Gabriel, California, and sold for USD50,100. In 2013, her artworks were recognized by the World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centers, and Associations (WFUCA) as “WFUCA2013.” In 2019, Dr. Wang was formally recognized by the New York Academy of Art as an “International First-Class Artist.” In the same year, her painting Pomegranates in Bamboo Basket (27 x 18 inches in size) was auctioned in New York and sold for USD1.27 million. She held a solo exhibition, titled One Flower, Two Worlds at the Louvre in Paris in 2019 and created a sensation in French art circles. In 2020, the United States National Commission for UNESCO Clubs, Centers, and Associations conferred on her the “International First-Class Artist” title along with the issuance of a certificate and badge.

The well-known saying, “Deeply hidden talent not easily revealed” aptly describes Dr. Wang’s morality and inner refinement. She is an artist at the Class of Ease, which is the highest level of achievement in painting. There are only about a dozen people in the history of art who have attained such a class.

Our museum is very fortunate to have Dr. Wang as our Lifetime Honorary Chairman. Dr. Wang graciously loaned many of her artworks to be permanently exhibited in a dedicated gallery hall at our museum.