Wei Dong

A remarkable painter who lives in Beijing, Wei Dong (born 1968 in Inner Mongolia, China) populates traditional landscapes with provocatively nontraditional figures – corpulent women, mostly, in states of lewd dishabille. Wei’s ribald paintings are more than just amusing exercises in absurdity and eroticism; they are allegories of tension between tradition and modernization, revealing windows into the conflict-ridden collective psyche of contemporary China.
He is having a new show “Game with a Fish” at Nicholas Robinson Gallery Chelsea, New York, from February 26 to April 4, 2009.
Wei Dong on Artnet.