Stretched, 2021 (Poster)

Exhibition poster for:Deng Shiqing‘Stretched’08/07 → 08/28 2021West HollywoodPress release:Simchowitz Gallery is pleased to present Stretched, a solo exhibition of work by Deng Shiqing. This is the artist’s first presentation with the gallery. Deng Shiqing’s uncanny canvases merge a contemporary, almost digitized sensibility with meticulous Old-Master technique. In this series, Shiqing presents women in various states of contemplation. Painted over lockdown, her characters exude an air of resignation. Does it matter what lies beyond her fantastical interiors? There is already so much to see inside. The artist captures a rare sense of interiority, where characters are at once familiar and foreign—new faces with such stirring, almost haunting expressions. Modeled after her friends, her women are regal and central, arms and legs often exposed as they sit and stretch and go about their quotidian routines. Shiqing adorns these long-limbed bodies with geometric garments—comical cutouts that