Ying Li: Weather Report

Artist Talk & Opening Reception with Ying Li and Critic Barry Schwabsky (The Nation, Artforum) 

Friday, September 6th, 4:30pm – 7:00pm
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College

The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and Gross McCleaf Gallery presents Weather Report, a two-part exhibition of new paintings by Ying Li, the Phlyssa Koshland Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College. Painted en plein air across residencies in Florida, Virginia, and Northern Ireland from 2022 to 2024, Li’s densely layered atmospheric images draw the viewer in, inspiring us to touch and perhaps even taste the air in the sweeping landscapes she depicts. Pushing her high volume oil paint aesthetic to the place where abstraction beautifully crashes back into representation, Li’s work forecasts our ever shifting relationships with the landscapes that surround us.

Weather Report is accompanied by a publication featuring Ying Li’s Intransitive Representations, an incisive new essay on Li’s work by Barry Schwabsky ’79, art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum.

Ying Li: Weather Report is a joint exhibition at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and Gross McCLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia. Support for the exhibition has been provided by The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, Haverford College and Gross McCleaf Gallery.