Xuancheng Zhang Design Portfolio

Address 47-30 61st St. Queens, NY

11377

Phone 612-300-8555

Xuancheng Zhang Email seanzart@gmail.com

Work Portfolio

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Xuancheng Zhang Work Portfolio

seanzart@gmail.com 612-300-8555

Text, photographs and desigh by Xuancheng Zhang

2621 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55408

In Another Voice

ILLUSTRATION PHOTOGRAPHY SCULPTURE COLLAGE

Another Emeritus Galleries

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PAINTING / SCULPTURE PAINTING / INSTALLATION

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Concourse

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GRAPHIC DESIGN

Voice

NEW MEDIA COMIC ART GRAPHIC DESIGN PAINTING ILLUSTRATION GRAPHIC DESIGN PAINTING

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Work by

JULIE BOEHMER ALLISON BOLAH

Recent

SEAN CAIRNS ZACH COLLINS SHANNON ESTLUND

MFA

ADAM HAMILTON PING JI JOHN KESTON HEEYUN 'JACKLYN' KIM

Reception: Friday, October 3

SIENG LEE

Fourteen recent MFA graduates present work that calls attention to forms and processes that encompass more than one subjective voice. They draw upon, channel, capture, and imagine poly-vocal worlds, both concrete and illusory.

Graduates

ASHELY PEIFER ADAM SETALA XUANCHENG ZHANG

6 to 8 p.m.

DANI WAGNER

Exhibition Poster 13” by 19”, Digital Print MCAD Gallery Hours

Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

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For more information, email gallery@mcad.edu or call 612. 874. 3703

Where creativity means purpose

IDENTITY Exhibition VI / In Another Voice

2014

To visualize the essential concept of diversity and relate it to the name of the show, I utilized four concentric circles to symbolize sound waves. Meanwhile, the title of the show was realigned and placed on different circles and each of the words had different directions to read, which represented how different aesthetic approaches can lead to the same destination.

Exhibition Evite 1200px by 700px, Screen-based

IDENTITY Exhibition VI / In Another Voice

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Exhibition Vinyl Sign Approximately 7’ by 8’, Vinyl lettering

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Kalavinka Studio

In China, Kalavinka Studio is one of the earliest studios focused on spreading Buddhist culture to the public. They advocate that the concepts behind Buddhism can be the solutions to the frustrations of modern life.

After thoroughly researching Buddhist history, culture and art, I built the graphic of two palms being put together devoutly, which is used as a greeting between believers. Meanwhile, it is also a behavior to remain at peace and to exclude other thoughts from the mind. The small curving shapes at the edge represent flame, which is also an important symbolic sign of Buddhism, which indicates the light in the heart that can disperse darkness. The line style was inspired by ancient Buddhist murals.

Visual Identity Handbook 8.5” by 4.5”, Digital Print

IDENTITY Corporation VI / Kalavinka Studio

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Playing Cards

Playing Cards 2.5� by 3.5�, Digital Print

The primary goal is to experiment with movement, balance, emphasis and unity to create forms representing each card.

EXPERIMENT Typography / Playing Cards

A set of playing cards created for experimenting of typography and form. The design was inspired by Chinese seal characters.

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The Kite / 风 筝

This group of work is based on a story I wrote, which was inspired by a talk with Erik Brandt when he mentioned a teacher from Japan in his college-days.

Thousands of overseas students are flown all around the world, like kites, year in and year out. The life in a disparate sky makes many of them tired to be tied down by the kite lines.

But I know I can’t cut it, for without a fetter far away from my hometown, I won’t be a free bird, but a falling kite.

The Kite Six pieces in 24”x 36” Three pieces in 16”x 24” Screen printing

EXPERIMENT Typography / The Kite / 风 筝

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The Kite Six pieces in 24”x 36” Three pieces in 16”x 24” Screen printing

EXPERIMENT Typography / The Kite / 风 筝

2014

The Kite Six pieces in 24”x 36” Three pieces in 16”x 24” Screen printing

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The Kite Six pieces in 24”x 36” Three pieces in 16”x 24” Screen printing

EXPERIMENT Typography / The Kite / 风 筝

2014

The Kite Six pieces in 24”x 36” Three pieces in 16”x 24” Screen printing

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The Kite Six pieces in 24”x 36” Three pieces in 16”x 24” Screen printing

EXPERIMENT Typography / The Kite / 风 筝

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The Kite Six pieces in 24”x 36” Three pieces in 16”x 24” Screen printing

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We Said Hello and Shook Hands

This is a project that I collaborated with collage artist Zach Collins, which was included into his 2014 book “ We Said Hello and Shook Hands”. Zach started two collages with cut-and-paste, then scanned and sent to me. I finished them digitally and sent back to him.

Untitled-1 9” by 6”, Multimedia

Untitled-1 9” by 6”, Multimedia

EXPERIMENT Collage / We Said Hello and Shook Hands

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Playing Cards

Liang Zhu 16” by 24”, Digital Print

Just as in Romeo and Juliet, this love story ends in tragedy. Lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, dedicate their lives to opposing the feudal notion on love and marriage. At the end of the story, their spirits turn into a pair of beautiful butterflies and are never to be separated again.

EXPERIMENT Typograpy / Liang Zhu

This is a piece I submitted to the MCAD MFA 2014 Fall Exhibition Chrysalis Stage, about the essential characteristic of a being’s behavior: Change. Based on a Chinese legend of a love story, Liang Zhu, which is known in the West as Butterfly Lovers.

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To them, death is the change. The chrysalis stage is their whole lives.

白朴创作杂剧 “祝英台死嫁梁山伯”，

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不传于今。

In Shidao Sifan Zhi

(十道四蕃志),

the author Liang Zaiyan

(梁載言) wrote,

“The righteous woman Zhu Yingtai was buried together with Liang Shanbo.”

EXPERIMENT Typograpy / Liang Zhu

2014

Liang Zhu Two pieces in 16” by 24”, Digital Print

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