Xingzi Gu Shows the Vulnerability of Youth

Xingzi Gu Shows the Vulnerability of Youth

I first saw Xingzi Gu’s vaporous paintings of adolescents on the brink of adulthood at the artist’s MFA show at New York University. The child of artists living and working in Nanjing, Gu left China to study art in New Zealand after high school before moving to New York for graduate school. Following a successful debut exhibition at Lubov in 2024, their current exhibition, Fluffing the foliage at CLEARING, features five diaphanous paintings (all…