Xiaoze Xie: The Weight of Memory in Photorealistic Landscapes Xiaoze Xie (born 1966 in Guangdong, China) is a Chinese-American visual artist whose distinctive approach to painting—characterized by meticulous photorealism overlaid with conceptual depth—has garnered critical acclaim and cemented his place as one of the foremost practitioners of contemporary landscape art. Based currently at Stanford University where he holds the Paul L.…