Throughout his career, Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961, Shanghai, lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area) has held classical Chinese ink tradition and Western pictorial abstraction in productive mutual tension. Exploring and deconstructing their conventions and constituents — figure, texture, space, geometry, gesture, materiality — he has developed a distinctive body of work that makes the vitality of matter directly perceptible. Central to Zheng’s art is the notion, inherent in pre-modern Chinese and Daoist thought, of the world as always in flux.