Wild Animals Invade New York Art World

Feng Shuo, "Citizens" (2007)

Let’s begin at Marlborough Chelsea, where Feng Shuo, a Chinese painter having his first U.S. show (through May 17), conjures a cast of mostly chimeric characters out of some of the most remarkable paint handling I’ve seen recently — the direction of his brushstrokes seems utterly irrelevant to what they depict — and whose content is even more memorable: Precisely what kind of orgy has this shame-faced rodent been disturbed in the midst of?

© Feng Shuo, photo by Jean Vong, courtesy Marlborough Gallery