Leona Craig Art is pleased to announce the inclusion of works by PanFen (Frank Pan), son of the famous Chinese sculptor, Pan He, in our gallery offerings.  



Born in 1964 to an already artistic family, Pan Fen eventually attended the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, known for its tradition of fine art teachers and artists, to study sculpture, like his father before him.  Initially, after graduation, he went to work for Zhujiang General Enterprises, a real estate company, where he was involved in planning the design and layout of building complexes.  For him, it was like sculpture of a larger scale.  His hometown, Guangzhou, whose Baiyun Hotel was the largest building, in China at the dawn of the new era of China's openness under Deng Xiao Ping, was a perfect breeding ground for such urbanization sculpture.  It has been continuing that tradition of modernization in design, most recently with it's creation of Zhujiang Newtown with an opera house designed by Zaha Hadid, a floating stadium for the 2010 Asia Games, a financial center which will also house a Four Seasons Hotel, a new Museum and beautiful public spaces with green and sculpture.  He also helped design the new Guangzhou Modern Museum of Art, which opened in spring 2011, including an outdoor fountain area with some of his sculptures.  The Gunagzhou MOMA is locted on Ersha Island, which is also home of the not so old Guangzhou Concert Hall and Guangdong Museum.



In more recent years, he has been concentrating on sculpture, both smaller indoor pieces as well as major outdoor pieces for a number of cities around the country.  Indeed, in his more recent concentration on more tradition sculpture in stone and metal, Pan Fen has been called upon to make public sculpture for some of those areas of Guangzhou's current urban renaissance.  He was also the first mainland sculptor to win a competition for a piece of stainless steel public art for Hong Kong.  He is also in charge of his father, Pan He's, sculpture garden, in Guangzhou, which is still under construction and which will eventually also include an indoor museum of his father's watercolor paintings and some smaller sculpture.



His work is included in an exhibition, August to September, 2011, at Leona Craig Art Gallery, in Guangzhou, which also includes works by his father.

Leona Craig Art is a gallery of a different kind of Chinese contemporary art, focusing on fine art with more subtle social commentary from well-known Chinese artists, in modern oil and watercolor painting, sculpture, Yixing teapot art, and Xiangxiu embroidery art.  The curator of the collection is Craig Mattoli, who has been involved in both art and professional investment for several decades. Visit us in the Dongshan Kou district of old Guangzhou or on the web at Leona Craig Art  .