Time & Location
Feb 28, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Hawthorn Contemporary, 706 S 5th St, Milwaukee, WI 53204, USA
About the event
Hawthorn Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Ye Zhu’s solo exhibition CONTINUATIONS. Drawing upon the figure of the Arhat in Buddhism as a contemporary analogy for liminality, hybridity, and spirituality, artist Ye Zhu (b. 1986 in Taishan, China and based in New York, NY) assembles a body of work across relief painting and sculptural installation. For CONTINUATIONS, Zhu unearths a series he began during his MFA at Yale in 2020, while he was inquiring into religious iconography and its global transmission through aesthetic forms.
Beginning with the religious object, ideas live on through art. These works by Zhu remind us how beliefs are transmitted across time and space, from internal to external, from body to body, mind to mind. They recall too, the sacredness held in our everyday functional objects, if treated as kin. And amidst Zhu’s compositions churning of samsara—the cycle of death and rebirth to which life…