Oct 19 – Nov 1, 2018
Opening Reception – Friday, Oct 19, 6 – 8 pm
Able Fine Art NY Gallery is pleased to present “Illusion” the group exhibition by artists from Parsons and SVA. This exhibition will present different artworks about the meaning of Illusion. They are interested in making colorful artworks that tell stories and emotions. They use different mediums to create art, watercolor, color pencils, oil, acrylic, and silkscreen printings. The artists who are participating in this group are artist groups that show off their creative work in the art world and are beginning to raise international recognition.

Qiurui Du
Qiurui Du is an artist from Beijing, China and is currently based in New York City. Having grown up in an artistic family his love of art grew tremendously. Queer identity and life experience give Qiurui unique point of views and inspirations in art. As an introverted person, he expressed all his emotions and ideas through colors and images, and he believes art is a way to tell stories. In Qiurui’s work, he deconstructs his inner fears, love, and Chinese pop cultures, and the subject matter in Qiurui’s artworks is also inspired by his surroundings as well as daily experiences within the social framework.
He creates corny scenarios with bright colors and flat images to bring the viewers into an illusionary dimension, where reality and imagination have been combined. In the Qiurui’s recent solo exhibition “A Bizarre World” (May, 2018), he has explored his childhood memories in his hometown Beijing with the particular attention to the social conflict and pop cultures that were influenced by China’s tremendous development and used acrylic to create a colorful imaginary world with black senses of humor to address the social issues, such as environmental problems, the conflict between poor and rich, and Traditional Chinese lifestyle in Modern Chinese society.

Tong Wang Q
Tong is a Chinese born artist. Tong grew up in central China. His father managed cultural and artistic programs for the Wuhan city government. This enabled him to go to museums, art exhibitions, and music and dance performances. At five, he started ten years of drawing and oil painting technique classes. At seventeen, he went to America and enrolled at Stony Brook University, majoring in journalism. His passion is for visual art, so he transferred to Parsons School of Design, graduating with a BFA in illustration and animation. For his senior thesis, he organized and curated an exhibition titled, “[H]ours” at the Charles West Gallery in Manhattan’s which integrated art from graduating seniors.
Tong was a Graphic Designer at Christian Louboutin Beauté, the international fashion house. His work was featured in 34 global stores, including locations in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. It united and transcends cultural communities by merging fashion and art. He worked in partnership with the Creative Design Manager in Paris and report to the Global Director of Store Design & Visual Merchandising.

Maria Gabriella Messina
Mari Gabi Messina was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She spends most of her days watching YouTube videos, raising her sugar level and doing obsessive amounts of skincare. After graduating from La Escuela de Diseño Altos de Chavon and earning an Associate’s degree in Fine Arts and Illustration, she moved to another island to earn a BFA in Illustration at Parsons School of Design in the city of New York. Presently, she is enrolled in the School of Visual Art for her MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay. She is currently working on mastering watercolor while learning her way around digital art and spicy ramen.

Claudia Tiange Chen
Claudia Tiange Chen is a graphic designer and a multimedia artist from Beijing, China and is currently based in New York. Before she became an artist, it seemed that arts had never crossed her path directly, which, nevertheless, has made her what she is today. Chen used to be a cellist, figure skater, equestrian and even fervent traveler because she was convinced that we should not be restricted by a label. Rather, we should shatter conventional boundaries valiantly, for everything in life has something in common, including arts. She takes arts as a means of emotional and rational expression and has since chosen to be a designer. Chen believes that the art bond everything in life and everything is interlinked. Most of Chen’s works are focusing on people’s relationship to other matters in the world, such as animals, space, nature etc.. And she is trying to use art as a way to show the humanity throughout different relationships. Chen’s works are not dedicated to exploring the basic good or evil of humanity; instead just use her own design to appeal the truth of humanity.
As a designer, she creates works that are more than a mode of expression. She has a zest for innovative expression techniques, for instance, digital arts, motion graphics etc. In the meantime, she also prefers to combine traditional expression techniques with modern techniques. For example, she would apply oil painting, watercolor painting, and printmaking in Adobe Software and re-innovate for her own style. Most of her works are simple and delicate yet void of excessive rendering. She would like the audience to pay more attention to the subjects of her works besides expression techniques. She expects that her works could provoke view’s reflections on themselves and the world. Under certain circumstances, humanity always attempts to conceal or avoid truths, whereas she is willing to be among the minority to reveal and resolve the problems, as she truly believes that only when humanity faces truths and defects heroically could it achieve fundamental progress in society.

355 MPH
355MPH was growing up in China and currently based in New York, 355mph is an artist whose works range from
Colored pencil drawing, painting, installation to digital art and video. She graduated from Parsons the School of Design and has a BFA in illustration in 2018. Created with a playful, ironic tone, part of her works tends to be a commentary of social phenomenon taken place in the younger generation – identity, consumerism, and sexual liberation. On the other hand, some of her works also reflect desire, subconscious and dream with a solemn narrative.

Able Fine Art NY Gallery works with both established and emerging international artists, sharing their worlds with our New York audience. Through the works of burgeoning talents and creative minds, Able Fine Art NY Gallery seeks to create a bridge between cultures, a succession of voices, and the melding of worlds through art.

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