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Hung Liu:
Hung Liu is an accomplished painter and professor of art. She has shown in well over fifty solo shows, including her most recent, "Hung Liu: Towards Peng-Lai (Paradise)," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA in 2003. Her work is part of nearly thirty public collections, including Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, AT&T Corporation and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was born in China and received her art education in both China and the United States, where she has lived since 1984. She currently teaches at Mills College, Oakland, California and is represented by Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco.
"On my heart, I used motifs from traditional Chinese paintings. In this case, birds are the subjects. There are numerous bird images throughout Chinese art history, in fact, many other Asian art histories as well. The winged creatures are both beautiful visually and meaningful symbolically. They are like witnesses and messengers from long ago, far away, making connections to us, our time and space. I'm sure it's also true among many non-Asian cultures.
All the wet color washes and drips followed the order of gravity gathered around the pointed tip(the bottom) of the Heart, like many rivers flow into the sea, or many blood vessels meet at the heart. The circles are abstract components, free float like bubbles, Daoist(Taoist) symbols for both wholeness and emptiness the same time, the entire universe.
In specific, my birds came from the Song (960-1279) or Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)."-Hung Liu
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