05/13/2026
🌼 Spring Solo Series Artist: Guizi Gao () 🌼
✨ Guizi Gao is a figurative expressionist oil painter whose work explores the human body as a mutable vessel shaped by social, biological, and psychological forces. Working in large-scale oil painting, she fuses Renaissance and Baroque compositional structure with gestural distortion and layered, tactile surfaces. Influenced by the London School, particularly Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville, Gao treats paint as corporeal matter, building and erasing flesh-like forms. Her signature headless or obscured figures are stripped of fixed identity, transforming from portraiture into archetypal presences that carry social, emotional, and existential resonance.
⭐ Gao’s series Realm of Chaos - Amazing Grace are inspired by Daoist cosmology, tracing cycles of vital spirit descending into the body, awakening, self-tempering, and spiritual renewal. Figures dissolve into organic geometry, translucency, and childlike symbolic forms, reflecting the flow of qi气, resilience, and the natural ascent of the heart-mind. The works engage themes of womanhood, pregnancy, breastfeeding, loss, and rebirth, presenting the body as both intimate and universal while highlighting the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength.
💡 Gao holds an MFA in Oil Painting from the China Academy of Art and completed graduate study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the United States, China, France, the U.K., Japan, and Norway, earning Merit Prizes from the Salmagundi Club International Figurative Art Competition.
✨ Gao's “Untitled (Om in Yoga 2)” is on view in our Kellner Gallery and can be viewed during our gallery hours through Monday, June 1.
🖌️ For inquiries about work in our exhibitions, please contact [email protected].
Featured Piece:
🖼️ Untitled (Om in Yoga 2)
📒 2023
📃 Oil on linen
🏷️ $3,000
