Long Quan

ARTIST | TABULA RASA GALLERY

b.1956, Chongqing, China
lives and works in Beijing (China)

LONG Quan (b. 1956, Chongqing, China) is an artist whose practice spans both sustained artistic production and extensive experience within China’s art education system. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with an MA in 1984, and taught there from 1985 to 2002, during which time he served as Associate Chair of the Oil Painting Department and Assistant to the President, and was also a member of the China Oil Painting Society. In 2002, LONG was responsible for establishing the art discipline at Beihang University in Beijing, where he later served as Dean of the School of New Media Art and Design from 2006 to 2016.

In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at Tabula Rasa Gallery in Beijing, James Fuentes Gallery in New York, and YIMA Gallery in Chengdu. His work has also been presented in group exhibitions at institutions including the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, the Capital Museum, and Yuan Art Center.

LONG's minimalist, almost naïveté approach to landscape painting emphasises a stark, structural form. With restrained brushstrokes and a controlled palette, he attempts to capture the ephemeral, even elusive state between movement and stillness in nature. In his paintings, mountains, rocks, trees, water, and clouds grow naturally in a slow, deliberate manner, dissolving the immediate urgency that typically defines our relationship with external images. His work offers a calm dignity, achieved through a lucid merging of closeness and remoteness.

ARTWORK | TABULA RASA GALLERY

Long QuanLace-bark Pine in SunsetOil on canvas110 x 100 cm2022

Long QuanThe Spring in SaihanbaOil on canvas60 x 70 cm2018

Long QuanThe Walking SeagullOil on canvas70 x 80 cm2021

Long QuanSunset Glow IIOil on canvas75 x 100 cm2024

Long QuanShapes of Water IOil on canvas60 x 90 cm2024

Long QuanTidesOil on canvas170 x 220 cm2024