"Beginning today and running through February, Lilienthal Gallery presents their winter exhibition with meditative art designed to transmit “the energetic flow of creativity into a poetic form of careful precision and elegant imperfection.” Three artists are presented in the collection curated by Ilana Lilienthal and Kelly Ferguson, including Sigrid Artmann, Guo Hai-Jiang, and Anthony Huang.
Taken as a group, the collection intends to mirror “the natural world by balancing simplicity and complexity, color and form, space and non-space, to create a reflective animation of spirit.” Drawing strongly from both western and eastern artistic cannons, “Artmann’s asemic compositions evoke the self-sufficient phenomena of Cy Twombly; Hai-Jiang’s impressionistic qualities and subject matter recall the lineage of Van Gogh or Monet; and Huang’s colorful, abstracted landscapes inherit a particular entropy similar to the oil paintings of Turner.”
— Inside of Knoxville