In the project 60 wrd/min art critic , writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviews the practice of Chicago-based painter Xuanlin Ye.

Xuanlin Ye

If the neo-expressionists who took over the art world in the 1980s had come from small-town China, they might have painted pictures that look something like the canvases of Xuanlin Ye. Keep the expressive gestures, big scale, and legendary themes, but lose the decidedly Western subject matter of Schnabel or Basquiat in favor of Chinese art historical motifs. The results feel new and old at once, as classic jade koi swim amid

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