For her first solo show in Asia, mid-career American artist Frances Barth presents imaginary landscapes that are at once confounding and sublime. Her radically abstract paintings possess a startling graphic clarity and are made of lush combinations of unnamable surprising new hues.

A professor of painting, drawing and critical issues at Yale University from I986 to 2004, where she influenced a generation of young artists, and now a director of the Mt. Royal School of Art. Maryland Institute. Barth has exhibited extensively across the United States. She was elected into the National Academy in 201 1 and four other works wil be on view at the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York through April 2012. Her paintings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants.

A catalogue with an essay by noted critic and author Karen Wilkin, frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Art in America, accompanies this exhibition.