Summoning Ghosts, featuring Contemporary Artist Hung Liu 2016.01.13

Non-CAS Event

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Sharp Auditorium, Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum

The New 2016 Curator's Circle and Asian Art Association Evening Lecture series, featuring contemporary Artist Hung Liu. Hung Liu is known for paintings based on historical Chinese photographs. her works challenges the authrority of documentary images by subjecting them to the more reflective process of painting. Much of the meaning of Liu's painting comes from the way her washes and drips dissolve the photographic images, suggesting the passage of memory into history. She works to uncover the cultural and personal narratives fixed--but often concealed--in the photographic instant. In this jointly sponsored lecture, Hung will present a brief survey of her art work over the last four decades, from China to the US, from Socialist Realism to Social Realism.

Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948 and grew up under the Maoist regime. Initially trained in the Socialist Realist style, Liu studied moral painting as a graduate student at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing before immigrating to the United States in 1984 to attend the University of California, San Diego. Liu currently lives in Oakland, California, where she taught for over 25 years and is presently Professor Emerita at Mills College.

Liu's works have been exhibited extensively and collected by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; and Los Angeles Country Museum of Art; among others.

RSVP by 4:00 p.m., January 7, by calling 720-913-0130

For questions, please contact blittle@denverartmuseum.org (720-913-0040), or kmaestas@denverartmuseum.org (720-913-0137).