--- title: 2018_Komar_Gagosian Quarterly_Figurative Diaspora date: 2018-04-05T16:22:42-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-komar-gagosian-quarterly-figurative-diaspora" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Vitaly Komar](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) Figurative Diaspora Gagosian Quartlery Feb 25, 2018 In 1990, Vitaly Komar, a key figure of the Sots Art movement, introduced Mark Tansey to a community of Chinese painters who had recently arrived in New York from Beijing. In return, Tansey organized an informal exhibition of their paintings in his New York studio, entitled *Transformations* (1994). Twenty-three years later, *Figurative Diaspora*, co-curated by Tansey and Peter Drake, Dean of the New York Academy of Art, presents paintings by five Chinese artists, three of whom participated in Tansey’s *Transformations*exhibition, alongside works from five Russian artists who had been creating “unofficial,” subversive, non-state sanctioned art decades earlier. In serendipitous coincidence, a scholarly publication *Thank You for Your Love 1994,* edited by Xin Wang, curator and art historian based in New York, with contributions from Cindy Xingyi Qi, MA student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, will be available in the summer of 2018 to closely examine the multifaceted implications of the *Transformations* gathering not only for the participating artists, but also for the art historical discourses in 1990s New York and that of contemporary Chinese Art **[Read more here](https://gagosianquarterly.com/2018/02/26/figurative-diaspora/)** Related News & Press Dec 04, 2011 [ ![Vitaly Portrait By Mel Rosenthaljpg](/assets/exhibition_images/Komar/vitaly-portrait-by-Mel-Rosenthaljpg.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2011-komar-nytimes) Dec 04, 2011 New York Times [Vitaly Komar](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) [Politics, Power and Passion](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2011-komar-nytimes) Mar 01, 2017 [ ![Komar New Yalta](/assets/exhibition_images/Komar-New-Yalta.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/vitaly-komars-piece-new-yalta-featured-in-the-new-york-times-opinion-pages) Mar 01, 2017 New York Times [Vitaly Komar](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) [New Yalta](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/vitaly-komars-piece-new-yalta-featured-in-the-new-york-times-opinion-pages) May 17, 2015 [ ![Komar Bears Justice 2010 2015 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Komar/2015-Allegories-of-Justice/Komar-Bears-Justice-2010-2015_1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-komar-art-agenda) May 17, 2015 art agenda [Vitaly Komar](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) [Vitaly Komar's "Allegories of Justice"](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-komar-art-agenda) Mar 29, 2017 [ ![Wexler Hat Roof 1993 B](/assets/exhibition_images/Wexler/Wexler-Hat-Roof-1993_B.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-wexler-artcritical) Mar 29, 2017 artcritical [Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [The Andy Warhol of Architecture](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-wexler-artcritical) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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