Experiments with reality

A Beijing gallery celebrates 10 years of adventures into the abstract, Chen Mengwei reports.

For Shivani Dugar and other start-up painters like her in New York, it's a big deal to have a solo exhibition in Beijing, capital of the world's second-largest economy and an important art market.

The 35-year-old Indian mom with two children presents 25 paintings, mostly in bright, rich colors infusing "abstract landscapes" in a mosaic style, in a solo show titled Four Seasons in Beijing's Being 3 Gallery, which is running through Jan 12.