Li Shanmei, “The silence brought by ‘light’”
January 11th – February 16th, 2025
Northport, NY– Haven Gallery is honored to present “The silence brought by ‘light’”, a solo show of new work from China based artist Li Shanmei. “The silence brought by ‘light’” is Shanmei’s third solo show at the gallery and features eight new oil paintings depicting her youthful yet wise archetypes as they search themselves for their inner light and purpose. Stripped of both civilization and materialization yet surrounded by it, Shanmei’s sitters meditate in their own radiating light to find and familiarize themselves with their own self and better understand the human condition.
Mandalas continue to play an important role in many paintings, reflecting a motif of healing and focus on the journey, rather than the result. A reminder to focus on true matters of the heart and not let surface follies get in the way of one’s true self.
ABOUT LI SHANMEI Li Shanmei is a Chinese artist born in 1989. She graduated from Yanbian University in 2014. Her oil paintings are known for depicting otherworldly children whose spirits and physical form are one with nature and life. Li’s paining technique is realistic yet illustrative, with an aesthetic embrace of computerized graphics. Her use of bold colors, geometry and mandalas are nods to systems of mathematics yet also embody tools of spiritual guidance and ascension. Li’s painted children represent new age deities that adapt to the innovations of technology while also maintaining homeostasis with their natural world.
