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<\/a><\/p>\nFresh Window Gallery is pleased to present Wei Xiaoguang: Humble, the first solo exhibition in the United States of Wei Xiaoguang\u2019s paintings. Mining pop culture, art history, and commercial advertising for his source material, Wei creates paintings with a photographic clarity and realism that belies their complex layers of visual and conceptual contradictions. Often blending multiple perspectives and scales and emphasizing surface, texture and the effects of light, Wei\u2019s compositions function as meditations on the interplay of illusion, representation and reality, an interplay that is the very essence of painting itself. Through a process that begins by constructing a digital collage of images of notable art historians and philosophers, commercial logos, Internet memes and expressionistic brushstrokes, which he then renders in paint, Wei creates crisp, beguiling canvases that brim with allusion and reference yet yield only a labyrinth of illogical juxtapositions and indeterminate meanings.<\/p>\n