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 September 4, 2009, is one of the most excited days in my life.
Sponsored by Springfield Regional Arts Council and Springfield Area Chamber of Commercemy first art exhibition (Sept 4- Sept 28) was opened in the Creamery Arts Center 411 N. Sherman Parkway, Springfield, Missouri, USA.
Thirty-five best paintings of my 420 paintings in the past 7 years have been exhibited, Includes:
Part I: Gouaches
01.Daylight
02.Sunshine in the Mountains
03. A Little Road
Part II: Combined Art
04.Ducks Know Spring Has Come At the First
05. A White Snow Song
06.The Dinging from the Mountains
07. Intone A Willow in the Spring Wind
Part III: Chinese Gongbi /Baimiao
08. A Song of the Spring
09. Butterflies Love Flowers
10.Sound Of Flute
11.Peonies and Baby Chicken(Baimiao)
Part VI: Chinese Xieyi
12. Warm- Peonies-18
13.Dream - Peonies-09
14. Enthusiasm Peonies -03
15.Flowers of the Spring
16.Peaceful Peonies-06
17.Affection
18.Language of the Spring
19.Spring Meet
20.Fat Crab
21.Little Birds & Plum Blossom
22.Peony Practice -15
23.Little Birds & Plum Blossom Practice
24.Later Autumn
25.Sweet Smell
26. One Night Spring Wind
27.A Little Funny
28.Song of the Autumn
29. Summer
30. Autumn
31.Happy In the Spring
32.Let Us Welcom Spring With Singing
33.What a Red Water lily!
Part V: Not for Sale
34. Meditation - Peonies-14
35.Painting From Nature
In the Opening Night Reception, I introduced something about Chinese traditional paintings, my own painting ideas and endless appreciation to all of the people who have helped me, supported me and directed me.
Even though my speech got the applause by the audiences, I was too nervous so that I forgot to show the audiences about my own web site. I forget to send people my business card and connecting ways. Even, I forgot time and I had only 3 minutes to paint a Chinese Xieyi painting for my audiences...:-)
But, still, it was a good starting -- many people came here in the rain; all of them gave my paintings a comment "So Beautiful"; I have been invited to offer some Chinese painting lessons, to make some demostrations; within the short 3 hours in the first night, 3 of pictures below have been sold with $45, $230 and $ 375.
My Gouache--0120: Sunshine in The Mountains target
Bai Miao--031: Peony & Little Chickens Practice
Combined Art -- 005: The Dinging from the Mountains
At the happy and special time that my long-term dream to be true, there was full of the appreciation in my heart. I would really like to thank my teachers, my sponsors, my bosses in china, my university in the US, and all of the people who have helped me in the past time and right now.
Especially, I would like to thank and to remember:
My Teachers:
-- My Late First American Art and Music Teacher Mr. Charlie K
-- My Current Chinese Art Teacher Mr. Tao
-- My First Vocal Music: Chinese Folk Song Teacher Ms. Ma
-- My Current Vocal Music: Art & Folk Song Teacher Ms. Huang
-- My Current American Art Mentor Dr. Booth
The Organizations:
-- Springfield Regional Arts Council
-- Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce
-- College of Business Administration of Missouri State University
-- Our Company in China
The Individuals & Friends:
--Mr. Brad Bodenhausen
-- Ms. Leah Hamilton Jenkins
-- Ms. Stephanie Cramer
--Mr. Gong Xiaoou
With an endless grateful heart, I would also like to do something to repay the society and those kind and friendly people, to remember those who have gone -- my first American art teacher and my late elder brother...
So, I would like to donate the income of my first art exhibition to a Springfield’s Disable People's Rest Home or a Disable People's Recovered Center...
Even though I have had my first art exhibition, I will be a student forever. I have only learned something very surface about Chinese and I have known little about Western art. So, I would really like to make this art exhibition as a new point of my long art learning road, to work hard continuously, to learn for whole of my life.
Future is bright, road is long and work is hard. I will do my best...
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