VOICE FROM THE EAST - LU LAN'S BIBLICAL PAINTINGS

Today we visited Will Scott's church St. John's McLean. The St. John's Church Committee on the Arts was delighted to share the biblical paintings of Chinese American artist Lu Lan. The exhibit was seen in the Upper Floor Gallery and is available from August 28 through November 3. Lu Lan was born in Nanjing, Mainland China, in 1972, where she grew up in a family that encouraged her pursuit of the arts in her work and study. Her mother is also an artist. She graduated from Najing College of Arts with a Bachelor's degree. After graduation she worked for the Amity Christian Art Center for five years and spent most of her spare time doing Biblical Story Painting. She has been influenced by Chinese traditional pattern, form and style, and also by some of the Chinese minority art. In these paintings she uses bright colors, vivid images and traditional costumes, which convey a Chinese message in visual context. Lu Lan has attended locally Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., where she received a Master of Theological Studies in Religion and Art in May 2002. She has had an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at the Henry Luce III Center for Art and Religion at Welsey. Her work was The First Chinese Christian Art Exhibition in China.