Rainy Zhang [2000, Illustration]
Rainy Zhang is an illustrator, painter, ceramic artist and cat owner born in China and based in Brooklyn. Rainy’s work, softly rendered in pastel colors, brings to life an adorable and enchanting land teeming with mythological-like sentient creatures, where she subtly infuses her reflections on religion, life, death, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality. Her work truly resembles a cabinet of wonders, evocative of kaleidoscopic cultural influences, where Swedish folk art meets medieval triptych painting, and kawaii manga characters meet Chinese paper effigies. With the guise of the sweet kaleidoscope, Rainy finds shelter in a more delicate manner of self-expression, especially her dialectical, critical, and sarcastic parts.