Beijing Booster Paintings is an ambitious exhibition by internationally collected and celebrated artist, Peter Wayne Lewis. For over a decade, Lewis has maintained and operated out of a studio in Beijing, China’s renowned 798 Art District. His large-scale abstractions are informed by artistic antecedents from American Abstract Expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, as much as Japanese sumi ink paintings and Chinese calligraphy by master painters like Ba Da Shan Ren. Tapping into both American and Asian traditions of painting, Lewis’ body of work makes a compelling case of cross-cultural aesthetics in an age of increasing globalization.
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