北京｜狮語画廊 x 之谷：去旧金山 ！

狮語画廊将于之谷（北京）展出群展《去舊金山！》。参展的四位艺术家虽背景各异，却与旧金山有着深厚渊源——他们之间或为师生，或为挚友，并曾在画廊举办过两两联展。本次展览将汇聚他们的创作，共同呈现一场独具风貌的艺术会话。

When we talk about “San Francisco,” what are we referring to? Is it the fog over the Golden Gate Bridge, the free-spirited cries of the hippies, or the technological waves of Silicon Valley?

But for some artists, San Francisco represents something else entirely: it is a melting pot of creativity, a testing ground for styles, and the spiritual source of every stroke and color in their works. It is not a distant geographical term but an intrinsic, driving cultural energy.

Leo Gallery will present the group exhibition “To San Francisco!” at One Atelier (Beijing), featuring four artists with diverse backgrounds yet deep connections to San Francisco. Bound by close ties as either mentors and students or friends, and having previously held two-person exhibitions at the gallery, these artists collectively present a uniquely styled exhibition.

绘画的语汇在不同的时空交汇，构成一场关于抽象语⾔、材料实验与时间沉积的对话。布拉德·布朗、陈开、梅尔·戴维斯与妮可·蓬格拉萨⽶·费恩四位艺术家的创作实践皆与旧⾦⼭渊源深厚。这座城市⾃由⽽多元的⽂化⼟壤，为他们的艺术探索提供了持续的养分与不竭的灵感。

The language of painting converges across time and space, initiating a dialogue on abstraction, material experimentation, and the sedimentation of time . The artistic practices of Brad Brown, Chen Kai, Mel Davis, and Nicole Phungrasamee Fein are deeply rooted in San Francisco—a city whose liberal and diverse cultural soil has provided enduring nourishment and endless inspiration for their creative explorations .

Piece 642 、643(Untitled)

2012-2022

装裱木板油画

Oil on Cradled Panel
25 x 30.5cm x 2

陈开Chen Kai

《景I , 景II》View I, View II

2018-2019

亚麻亚克力 Acrylic on Linen

223.5 x 167.5cm each

布拉德·布朗曾长期任教于旧⾦⼭艺术学院，他以持续数⼗年的两个创作系列推进综合材料的实验，使画⾯成为时间的考古现场，旧痕迹与新笔触交融共⽣；陈开毕业于同一学院并师从布朗， 2023年⼆⼈于狮語画廊的展览《光·迹》，正是一场跨越代际与风格的对话延续。 他的绘画以点彩为语⾔ ，⽤微⼩⾊点编织光感与节奏，形成跃动的视觉脉络；梅尔·戴维斯游⾛于抽象与具象之间，将艺术史参照、个⼈记忆与⾃然意象并置，构建出如视觉诗般复杂的空间结构；妮可·蓬格拉萨⽶·费恩则以精准如印刷的细密笔法，在⾊彩的多重叠加中渗透出克制与⾃由，抵达冥想般的视觉深度。

Brad Brown long taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he advanced his decades-long experimentation  with  mixed  media  across two  major  series,  turning  the  picture  plane  into  an archaeological site oftime where old traces and new strokes coexist and converse . Chen Kai, also a graduate of the institute and former student of Brown, continued this cross-generational and stylistic dialogue in their 2023 joint exhibition Shimmer and Stain at Leo Gallery. His paintings employ a pointillist language, weaving light and rhythm through minute dots of color to form pulsating visual networks.  Mel  Davis  moves  between  abstraction  and figuration,  juxtaposing  art  historical references,  personal  memory,  and natural  imagery  to  construct  complex,  poem-like  spatial compositions. Nicole  Phungrasamee  Fein  employs  meticulously  precise,  print-likebrushwork, building through layered color a restrained yet expressive freedom that invites meditative depth.

他们曾在旧⾦⼭这一⽂化现场中各⾃深耕、彼此激发。本次展览《去舊⾦⼭！》，既是对那段创作时光的致敬 ，亦是对绘画未来的共同探寻 。让这些源⾃旧⾦⼭的艺术探索，汇聚于之⾕，以各⾃独特的⽅式构建时间、笔触、 ⾊彩与意象的共振，共同延展绘画的边界 ，呈现当代抽象叙事中丰富⽽多维的可能。

Each  of  these  artists  has  dug  deeply  into  the  cultural  landscape  of San  Francisco,  drawing inspiration from one another and the city itself. The exhibition To San Francisco! is both a tribute to that  formative period  and  a  collective  look  toward  the  future  of  painting.  May  these artistic journeys, which began in San Francisco, now converge in this  space, resonating through time, touch, color, and imagery—each in its singularway expanding the possibilities of painting, and revealing the rich and multidimensional potential of contemporary abstract narrative .