Chicago Reader61%
Jiashun Zhou weaves an expansive world 47%
By Lori Waxman56%
7/23/2026, 7:10:59 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 43.9% saturation with 97 hits. Analysis detected 222 faulty-reasoning hits from 221 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.6% and a BS Rank of 47% (11,690 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.40% of the article peer group.
In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby.
For this iteration, Waxman reviews a recently completed project by Chicago-based artist Jiashun Zhou.
Jiashun Zhou
Over the past year, Jiashun Zhou completed his most ambitious work yet—a quartet of floor loom weavings that envision an idyllic building ringed by a deep outdoor walkway, columned in pink and covered in purple-red roofing.
Yellow grounds and green foliage extend the landscape with endless gardens, in an aesthetic that moves between de Chirico and Arts and Crafts.
The mural-size Hallway, so large it extends around two corners, feels expansive enough to walk right into.
Threshold Space lets the weather in, blustery and unruly.
The diptych Staying offers a calming view from the inside.
Thaw, the smallest of them all by many inches, is also the most stunning, out of focus like a day that’s too bright and hazy, warp threads hanging as if melting in the sun.
From afar, Zhou’s imagery achieves a trompe l’oeil effect; up close, the tapestries break down into their individually colored threads.
I want to be there.
—Lori Waxman 7/16/26 4:26 PM
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