Wanxin Zhang

The work in this exhibition celebrates the artist’s signature style—a hybrid of Bay Area Figurative/California Funk influence and nods to Chinese history. Zhang’s monumental clay figures are at once irreverent and troubling, evoking the tension (and delusion) inherent in globalization, xenophobia, politics and power. He demonstrates this through his mastery of the malleable qualities of clay, reshaping traditional symbols and iconography with contemporary pop culture.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.