{"Id":7546,"Name":"Xiang Zhang","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT INFO:\u003Cbr /\u003EWebsite:\u003C/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.xiangzhangart.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E www.xiangzhangart.com\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmail:\u003C/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:xiangzhangart@gmail.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Exiangzhangart@gmail.com\u003C/a\u003E \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EBorn in the year of the Horse, Xiang Zhang (pronounced Shong Zang) grew up in China. After graduating from The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, where he was strongly influenced by the 19th century Russian masters, he received his Master\u0027s Degree in Fine Art from Tulane University in New Orleans. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EUpon moving to Texas, Zhang combined his love for painting horses and portraiture to develop his special style of western art. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003ECombining impressionistic, as well as realistic techniques, he has received awards in regional and national shows which has marked him as an artist to watch. Xiang Zhang is celebrated by art collectors around the world for his powerful western action scenes, as well as for his realistic depictions of historical events captured in large compositions such as \u0022The Oklahoma Land Rush\u0022, \u0022Arriving Fort Worth\u0022, \u0022Austin Drive\u0022, and \u0022The Sooners\u0022 and many more. With his theater background, before each composition Zhang always dedicates time to research and study the costumes, architecture, and even props from that period. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EZhang has spent much time observing working ranches. As a result, his work reflects the symbiotic relationship between the cowboy and his horse. Using scintillating colors and bravura brushwork to capture the drama of ranching life, his definitive style has catapulted him to new heights in the art world. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EThe consistent quality of Zhang\u0027s work has made him one of the most collectible artists in the world. Xiang Zhang\u0027s paintings hang in private and corporate collections in the United States, Canada, Europe, and China. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EXiang\u0027s work has been exhibited in prestigious national shows such as Prix de West in Oklahoma City, Briscoe Western Art Museum, Autry National Center\u0027s Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale, The Museum of Western Art, and the Gilcrease Museum. He has had numerous successful one-man shows and his work has been featured in \u003Cu\u003EWestern Traditions: Contemporary Artists of the American West\u003C/u\u003E, \u003Cu\u003EArt of the West\u003C/u\u003E, \u003Cu\u003ESouthwest Art\u003C/u\u003E, \u003Cu\u003EWestern Art Collector\u003C/u\u003E, \u003Cu\u003EFine Art Connoisseur\u003C/u\u003E, and numerous other publications. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EHe currently resides in Dallas, Texas with his wife Lily. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EXiang Zhang is represented by Southwest Gallery in Dallas, Texas and Mclarry Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u0022Zhang deftly combines impressionism and realism in the Russian and Chinese traditions, even as he reminds some viewers of the early 20th century Spanish master Joaquin Sorolla or the European- trained Americans who created the Taos Society of Artists around the same time. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EThe hallmarks shared by these traditions include the strong color and bravura brushwork seen in Zhang\u0027s Longhorns in Palo Duro, a skilled weaving together of landscape, plein air, and figure painting that gradually leads our eye back toward the horizon above a seemingly never-ending arc of cattle.\u0022 - \u003Cu\u003EFine Art Connoisseur\u003C/u\u003E (2013) \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":33}