The Long Journey

Exhibition catalog for "Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey"

Presented at the Museum of Craft & Design, "Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey" was the first museum solo presentation of Wanxin Zhang’s work in San Francisco. This exhibition was a survey of Zhang’s ceramic sculpture from 2006 to 2017 and celebrates the artist’s signature style—a hybrid of California Funk influence and nods to Chinese history. Zhang’s monumental clay figures are at once irreverent and troubling, evoking the tension inherent in globalization, politics, and power. He demonstrates this through his mastery of the malleable qualities of clay, reshaping traditional symbols and iconography with contemporary pop culture.