On September 19, Huang Dan's latest solo exhibition "Beholding" opened in Sanyuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China. The exhibition presents her latest works created in 2020. These artworks retain the consistent calm tones of cinnabar and peacock blue and express the exploration of the intrinsic essence of life and the praise of endless power through full and publicized brushwork. She constantly crosses the boundary between concrete and abstract, blurs classical and modern categories, removes attributives and returns to the original.

Huang Dan was born in Guangxi in 1979. Her father was a traditional Chinese landscape painter. She enjoyed the painting tools and all kinds of art supplies that can be seen everywhere in her home since she was a child. After that, she entered the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts to pursue her bachelor's and master's degrees in traditional Chinese painting. Huang Dan is good at painting with large-scale rice paper, and her works are strong and bold. Her works avoid excessively detailed descriptions, and the vibrant natural mineral colors focus on the expression of abstract forms and volumes. She uses ink and wash as a medium, but goes beyond the cultural paradigm of ink and wash. The courage and strength of "indestructible" have been throughout Huang Dan's artistic practice. She has stripped away the traditional cornerstone under her feet, leaving only the essentials of expression.

The goal of the solo exhibition "Beholding" in 2020 is to show the life force surging in nature. Huang Dan said more than once, "Life is beautiful". The power of life makes Huang Dan unable to look away. She constantly gazes at the world full of vitality, and looks for this power from the vast things in the ocean and nature, praising every living body for its small, weak but fearless internal power. She enriched and purified the rough sense of the power of all things, explored the possibility of multiple feelings and emotions from the language of materials, presented natural and free "watching" rhythm, and weaved a more abundant picture of life phenomena.

Therefore, the pine that she paints has long been unconstrained, the branches are coiled and slanted. They are like folding fans opening the leaves and faintly glowing. She is not painting Taihu stones, but the spirit of Taihu stones. She also knows how to use the most concise method to sketch the essence of horses, mobilize the huge power behind them, and express those creatures who are calm and faintly sad.

                                                                                                              Being 

                                       Chroneme

                                                    Sublime

                                              Tranquility

                                                      Blessing

                                                  Uplifting