Jiang-Ze Jhong 鍾江澤

JIANG-ZE JHONG

Jiang-Ze Jhong creates dynamic large-scale oil paintings that could be described as gestural figuration. His practice involves reinterpreting existing images such as famous paintings, photographs, and movies scenes. His process is to blur and break the clear and defined outlines of his source images, often mixing unrelated visual elements, in order to turn the pictures into vibrant, imaginative, and purposely chaotic compositions. With powerful and unpredictable freehand brushstrokes, reflecting improvisation, Jhong stives to disrupt the linear nature of time and space that his source images suggest. Consequently, his canvases are unsettling and spectacular at the same time. They seem to mirror contemporary angst and the agitating experience we all share in the face of a continuous and unnerving flow of images and information. 

Jiang-Ze Jhong (b. 1981, Taipei) lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with a BA in 2006 and received his MA from the same university in 2009. He has had solo exhibitions at sites such as the Mind Set Art Center, Taipei; Houth Shan Art Center, Taipei; and Chuan Tuo Museum, Taichung, Taiwan. He has participated in group exhibitions at Silverlens, Makati, Philippines; Taipei Cultural Center, Taipei; Ever Spring Museum of Fine Art, Taichung; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. His work is included in the permanent collections of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Art Bank, Taiwan; and the Long Yen Foundation, Taiwan. Jhong received a CTBC Arts Award in 2019. He won the First Prize of the Long Yen Foundation Art Scholarship in 2008 and a 2005 Outstanding Art Prize from the Taipei National University of the Arts. 

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