Ferris Gallery presents The Color of Pomegranates, a new body of work by artist Yan Shanchun. The solo exhibition of the same title will open on February 7, 2026, and remain on view through April 18.

The pomegranate is an enduring motif—rich in symbolism and charged with human longing. Across different historical periods and cultural contexts, it has achieved a shared spiritual resonance.In this new series initiated through copperplate printmaking, Yan Shanchun turns his focus to the pomegranate, unfolding a symbolic narrative grounded in an Eastern cultural context. Each work functions as an independent visual poem: split-open fruits and accumulated seeds gesture simultaneously toward the fragility of life and its abundant vitality. As a visual motif, the pomegranate has long traversed both Eastern and Western art histories. With The Color of Pomegranates, Yan Shanchun extends this tradition, rearticulating the fruit’s polysemy through the medium of copperplate etching. More than a series devoted to fruit and color, the works form a declaration that crosses cultures and time.