ColorBox 2017 Original Illustration & Handbook Works Open Call!

Until October 28, 2017

Beijing 798 Art District - Man Art Space

"ColorBox 2017 Original Illustration & Handbook" aims to discover young emerging illustrators, by presenting their inspiration and ideas in a concrete way to the public and providing a space for communication and learning...

ColorBox Space Fabric Workshop

September 17, 2017

ColorBox Space, Hangzhou

Let our instructors take you into the fabric world and design your own non-woven product. You’ll learn the complete primary production process to the final stages. This is a free form class and students are encouraged to let their creativity flourish with their designs...

ColorBox Space Magic Shrink Jewelry Workshop

September 10, 2017

ColorBox Space, Hangzhou

You’ll learn the basic DIY steps of handling the heat shrink film, complete the primary production process and heat treatment, then we’ll teach you to design your own thermal film jewelry line...

"Broken" is the first high school artist exhibition, co-sponsored by VISUALIZEstudio and Hangzhou line. The art exhibition provides a platform for high school students to show their artistic ability in fine art, photography, and 3D works. The space is inspired by experiential workshops, allowing viewers to immerse in the atmosphere and its artistic creations.

ColorBox Exhibition / Break

ColorBox Hangzhou is pleased to present “This is not landscape,” a collaborative group exhibition featuring three independent artists in our incubative art gallery, ColorBox Space.

Landscape painting has always been a subject matter in both mainstream Eastern and Western art history. Whether in the form of a traditional Chinese landscape painting, pre-15th Century commissioned works for churches or rich nobles, or from the romanticism of J.M.W. Turner to Mark Rothko’s color field series, landscape paintings have gone through multiple renditions of interpretation as time evolved.

Belgian surrealist artist, Rene Magritte, once raised a poignant question about the relationship of images and words to his audiences in his most notable painting, The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) (1929). The two paintings of the Pipe he created successively, initiated a discussion about the dialectical relationship between “words”, “image” and “object.”

In contemporary art today,traditional systems of reality, visual, and concept is constantly being reinterpreted by new ideas. Through the art of these three artists, who were primarily inspired by nature and landscape, we once again juxtapose the relationship between“reality”, “visual”, and “concept.” These terms correspond with the fundamental concepts that make up nature, abstract landscape painting, and landscape painting.

The exhibition questions the audience: Is what you are viewing a direct interpretation of a landscape painting? Or is it a result of the subtextual relationship between reality, visual, and concept?

“Landscape” explores not only its long history in mainstream art, but also what it means to viewers in its endless possibility of representation with nature. It challenges the audience to speculate the dialectical relationship between the three artists and their conceptual interpretations of landscape painting.

Expanded Habitat ColorBox Hangzhou is pleased to present “Expanded Habitat,” a collaborative group exhibition with Unlisted Projects at ColorBox Space.

Habitat, a term typically referring to a space in which an organism lives, find food, shelter, protection and reproduce, the exhibition explores the constant changing and expanding concept of the habitat. It is not only defined by all the physical interactions within biological or social spaces, but it is also redefined conceptually through transformative processes created by a collective experience or personal memories.

On May 19, 2017 at 7:00 pm, ColorBox Hangzhou and Zhejiang University of Technology’s International Education Institute jointly organized the 2017 Clothing and Apparel Design (Sino-US cooperation) exhibition, featuring the outstanding graduation works of its young designers in our inaugural ColorBox Space in Hangzhou’s West Lake District. The opening event was hosted by Bu Tian and attended by guest speakers Zhejiang University of Science and Technology Associate Professor Liu Lixian, designer Lin Yifei, and ColorBox General Manager Meng Fanqi.

April 8th and 9th, ColorBox "Behind The Form" 2017 Public Architectural Tour in Hangzhou and Beijing came to a successful finale! ColorBox collaborated with University of Pennsylvania architecture instructors and New York’s Pratt interior design mentors to approach college students. On April 8th in Hangzhou station, tutors went to Zhejiang University of Technology’s Ping Feng Shan campus; Thereafter on April 9th at Beijing Railway Station, the instructors brought the tour to ColorBox’s Beijing headquarters. The event was raved about by students as they got to learn in-depth knowledge from the mentors and tutors outside of their traditional lecture halls.

We are pleased to present TimeLine—2017 Lunar New Year Art Show, an exhibition of works by a group of Chinese artists on January 19 - 20, 2017, at Rogue Space, Chelsea, NY.

In our contemporary era, it becomes difficult to distinguish the lasting artistic accomplishments and groundbreaking work with each passing year. Art has underdone the“fast food” phase to become “fast art.” In the context of Chinese art, from Republican to the Maoist years and into the Reform and new ink art era, we find ourselves immersed in an era categorized by digital art and new media today. In this exhibition, we invite eight artists who exemplify outstanding characteristics in distinct fields. Their work, while diverse in medium and output, comes together to present an important view on how Chinese contemporary artists expound their views on society, nature, information, and beliefs.

The United States is one of the world's most robust commercial illustration industries. The Illustrator Career Development Seminar will focus on the academic and commercial perspective of the major US institutions and its market for professional illustrators by providing a detailed analysis of the industry’s career track.

Through seminars held by industry leaders, student turned professionals, and practitioners, individuals can learn and be inspired to develop their own career planning framework. Educators can also utilize its content as a model reference for classroom teachings.

As the co-organizer of WAVELENGTH, ColorBox strives to promote cutting-edge designers and artists for educational experiences. During the opening reception of the exhibition, we will be celebrating with a fashion art theme party, attended by our ColorBox Advisor, Mr. David Leung, who is also the first Chinese designer of Versace. You will have opportunities to mingle with industry leaders from art and design world to fashion entrepreneurs.