One of the world’s foremost hyperrealist painters, Leng Jun, will create a portrait of a live model in a one-day, public painting session 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday, April 3 in the Texas A&M College of Architecture’s Wright Gallery, located on the second floor of the Langford Architecture Center Building A.
A reception featuring the artist, whose amazingly detailed portraits and still life paintings are exhibited across the globe, is scheduled in the Wright Gallery at 4 p.m.
Viewers are invited to take a passing glance or stay as long as they like as Jun creates the portrait in his signature style, a photograph-like rendering that includes minute fabric patterns, garment folds, the subtlest of shadows, and additional textures.
“In his paintings, you can observe the incredible precision of his paintbrush, which even captures the shadow cast by a sweater’s thread on his subject’s skin,” wrote a contributor to Twisted Sifter, a popular culture site, about one of Jun’s pieces.
Jun, a professional artist and art instructor based in Wuhan, China, is a graduate of the Department of Fine Arts at the Hankou Branch of Wuhan Normal College.
The event’s host, Yu Xiao, associate professor of urban planning, expects Jun to complete most of the piece by the 4 p.m. reception and finish by 6 p.m.
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This story by By Richard Nira was originally posted on ArchOne.
