Installation View: Girl with Dog and Chinese 2 Birds Midst Flowers both 2012, oil on canvas, 79 x 79 in. Detail: Girl with Dog, 2012 Cleopatra, 2012, oil on canvas, 79 x 79 in. From the Press Release : Mike Weiss Gallery is pleased to present Treasury , a new exhibition of paintings by Belgian artist Jan De Vliegher. For his first solo exhibition in the United States, De Vliegher creates a series of monumental paintings which reference the artist’s obsessive hunt for otherwise overlooked porcelain plates. United in their ritualistic and repetitive compositions the series of circular abstractions reveal De Vliegher’s fascination with the painting experience while also speaking to broader themes of contemporary collecting. Like a cultural anthropologist, De Vliegher meticulously documents his varied sources of inspiration in their traditional museum context. The lush colors, dramatic brushstrokes and overpowering scale of his work, however, starkly diverge fr...