Teng Fei's Point of Arrival I

A monumental oil on canvas, *Point of Arrival I* arrives with the quiet authority of a work that has earned its place on the wall rather than simply filled it. Teng Fei's composition is presented within a black wood frame of considered depth — sixty-one inches tall, forty-nine wide — a scale that commands the eye without demanding it. The relationship between the painted surface and its architectural surround is one of deliberate tension, the dark framing acting as a threshold between the room and whatever interior world the artist has rendered in oil. From John Richard's collection, it is the kind of piece around which a room's entire conversation is organized.