David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at The Pocantico Center — Attraction in Town of Mount Pleasant

The journey from New York City to Pocantico unfolded like a gentle prelude — a shift from the urban tempo to autumn’s quiet cadence. Set amidst the Rockefeller estate’s rolling landscape, Shen Wei: Still / Moving opened with a private tour at The Pocantico Center, introducing the first half of a two-venue exhibition commemorating thirty years of Shen Wei’s creative evolution as dancer, choreographer, painter, and cultural ambassador.

Inside the Pocantico galleries, the atmosphere was meditative. Shen Wei’s monumental canvases — layered with washes of ink, mineral pigment, and light — seemed to hover between painting and motion. They evoked the shan shui tradition yet dissolved its stability, resembling landscapes seen in breath rather than line. His gestural surfaces possessed a gravitational stillness, as if choreography had been absorbed into pigment. Standing before them, one could feel the quiet rigor of Tai Chi, calligraphy, and modern abstraction converging.

The second act unfolded at the Katonah Museum of Art, where the performance Connect / Transfer activated Shen Wei’s philosophy of painting through movement. Dancers in vivid, skin-tight suits transformed the courtyard floor into a living scroll, their motions leaving trails of color that blurred the divide between dance and visual art. Surrounded by tall evergreens, the performance resembled a ritual of becoming — movement turning into mark, color breathing into sound. The audience watched not just a choreography, but the act of creation itself.

A twilight reception followed — wine, flowers, and laughter under the trees — yet even in conversation, the body remembered the rhythm of what had just transpired. The exhibition’s title, Still / Moving, lingered as a paradox resolved: that stillness can hold motion, and movement can summon silence.

As the bus wound back to the city, the experience felt less like a day trip than a pilgrimage into the essence of Shen Wei’s interdisciplinary world — one where art, nature, and the human body flow within the same...

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