Alisan Fine Arts is pleased to invite you to join us in a conversation with Debra Burchett-Lere, Director of the Sam Francis Foundation as well as John Seed, Board member of the Sam Francis Foundation. Together with gallery director, Daphne King they will talk about the life and art of celebrated American abstract painter Sam Francis and Chinese Diaspora artist Walasse Ting with a focus on their life long relationship as well as their influences on each other’s work.
This event is held on the occasion of the gallery’s current exhibition Celebrating a Friendship: Walasse Ting & Sam Francis which is on view until April 30 at our Central Gallery. Organised together with the Walasse Ting Estate and in cooperation with the Sam Francis Foundation, the exhibition juxtaposes nine action paintings by Sam Francis with nine brush paintings by Walasse Ting. Also on display are archival material as well as the iconic book 1 Cent Life, conceived by Ting and edited by Francis. The unbound folio includes the works of 28 well-known artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Tom Wesselmann.