Lu Cong 1978 —

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Lu Cong was born in Shanghai, in February 1978. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1989. After graduating from the University of Iowa with degrees in Biology and Art in 2000, Lu chose to pursue portrait art over medicine. He quickly attracted attention with his early paintings - large figurative works that are intensely emotive, border on sensational, yet the subjects are painted with a sensitivity that the viewer often finds meaningful and memorable. As he progresses, Lu focuses on establishing an authentically felt engagement between the painting and the viewer. His paintings are regarded as an original approach to contemporary portraiture, and are beginning to make an impact on academic and popular art culture.
About my portraits

My recent paintings depict young adults, at around the coming of age. I painted them in ways that I feel is most relevant to my experiences. I don't make art with the overt intension to critique or dissent. However I am aware that what I feel to be authentic is often a reaction against what I feel isn't. In this case, my approach to painting is in part shaped by my apathy towards the ‘intellectually respectable' ways of painting; and in part provoked by commonplace and repetitive visuals of ‘mass media.' My concern when painting is how real it is; not in its actual likeness, but in its immediacy and meaningfulness to myself.

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