BlackRock arts center in Germantown hosts works that mix Asian past and present — Gazette.Net

From BlackRock Center for the Arts

In-soon Shin of Washington, D.C., makes use of eight wooden boxes and relief paper castings from ancient Korean tombs in her in work, Energy Force II. The piece is on exhibit at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown through Feb. 28.

The BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown is getting the jump on Lunar New Year celebrations this month by exhibiting the work of three regional artists beginning Thursday.

Called Transformations of Brush and Paper, the exhibit will run past the Lunar New Year on Feb. 19 to Feb. 28.

One of the exhibitors is Kit-Keung Kan. Born in Quangdong, China, he earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and now lives in Bethesda.

Also exhibiting works are Freda Lee-McCann of Columbia and In-soon Shin of Washington, D.C.

The three artists, who interweave traditional and modern ideas in their pieces, will give public demonstrations of how they go about their work followed by a reception on Saturday at BlackRock.

Kan will present three installations, including Ever Flowing, which was inspired by the ancient Chinese poems of Li Ba about the Yangtze Rivers three gorges.

Words from the poems are inscribed on long roles of paper hanging for the ceiling.

[Chinese calligraphy] can be analogized to dance, where the hand doing the calligraphy dances and the calligraphy records parts of the movement on paper, said Kan said in an email.

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