#RecentAcquisition ✨ Cui Jie's paintings incorporate diverse, real, and fantastical elements to explore geopolitical contexts and urban environments. In works like "Shanghai East China Electric Power Building #2," the artist (b.1983) meticulously executes each sculptural and architectural layer to represent the process through which the modern world has undergone enormous and monumental changes. "Architecture is experiencing history just as human beings. My paintings can be seen as my reinterpretation and re-perception of history." — @cuijie83 The cities Cui Jie depicts are closely associated with her personal history: one can identify in the subject matter Bauhaus architectural principles, ideologies of Chinese propaganda art, Soviet communist aesthetics, or the Japanese Metabolism architectural movement, among others. _______ (1) Cui Jie, "Shanghai East China Electric Power Building #2," 2016, detail. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Gift of Romero Pimenta. © Cui JieImage courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London. Photo by Alessandro Wang. (2–4) Cui Jie in her studio. Photo: Jian Gao for Avant Arte. #ICAMiami #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryPainting #ContemporaryPainter #MiamiArt #MiamiMuseum #UrbanPainting #ShanghaiArchitecture