Zhaoming Wu

Art Brokerage: Zhaoming Wu Chinese Artist: Zhaoming Wu was born in China and grew up in Guangzhou City. He received his BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art and later earned his MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Since 1983, he has been exhibiting his work in Asia, Europe, The United States and other countries around the world. He has long been active both as an artist and a teacher. He is currently a painting instructor at the Academy of Art University. His work has been featured in numerous magazines, and a book of his paintings and drawings has been compiled and published. Today, many years and even more miles later, Wu is well educated and his paintings are nothing if not Western in style and theme. Anyone can, if they study hard, use paint to report on the bend of an arm or the arch of a back, Wu says. His figures, however, are something more, seemingly caught somewhere between motion and silence, between the whirl and spin of human existence and the quiet center of its contemplation. There are no calligraphic brush strokes to give away the origin of their creator. "You can't really see Asian style in my painting." Wu says. Still, it was the training and experiences he had in China that allowed Wu to become the accomplished Western artist he is today. He pulls the viewer's senses through cacophony of color and light toward a single, sharp focus. Figures account for about 80 percent of Wu's work, he says, with 20 percent landscapes, the reverse of his subjects while he was in China. Listings wanted.