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‘The word Hua means to paint, or a painting, in Chinese.’ Established in 2011, Hua Gallery specialises in the exciting and sometimes controversial space that is Chinese contemporary art. As Chinese contemporary art continues to fascinate and intrigue collectors around the world, demand and appetite for fresh and innovative art from this fast-‐changing region continues to escalate. Hua Gallery represents and exhibits cutting edge, stimulating works by established contemporary Chinese artists, as well as emerging contemporary Chinese artists who are not as yet "discovered" internationally. Hua Gallery adopts a distinctive business strategy by acquiring works from artists before selling them, as well as by exhibiting and selling works by artists on a commissions basis -‐ an approach which demonstrates a passion, dedication and commitment to the artists and also, importantly, provides confidence to art collectors who trust the gallery to help expand their collections. Hua Gallery’s founder and director, Shanyan Koder, has developed strong relationships with her artists, and hopes to build a Chinese contemporary art collection in her gallery that is different and inspirational. Every artist represented by Hua Gallery is chosen for their artistic individuality, the creative symbolism in their work, and the emotional energy their work creates. Hua Gallery is situated on the Albion Riverside, a prestigious residential block on the Battersea riverside, designed by world-‐renowned architects Foster and Partners. With close to 2,000 square feet of gallery space, Hua Gallery is London’s only Chinese contemporary art gallery with a permanent exhibition space of this size and scale.
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Beili Liu Rise and Fall Solo Exhibition
Spellbound Creations
AUSTIN, TX, February 13, 2012 – Multidisciplinary artist Beili Liu is a Chinese-‐American artist who has exhibited widely in the US, Europe and China. Liu’s upcoming solo exhibition, Rise and Fall, will be held at Hua Gallery, London, UK, from March 22 through May 31, 2012. The London installation, entitled Lure/London, will be a new site-‐responsive composition of Liu’s Lure Installation Series. Two Dimensional works that will also be featured include Liu’s “process drawings”—Incense Drawings, a new Wind Drawing series, and graphite works. Liu’s Lure Installation Series is inspired by “The ancient Chinese legend of the red thread, which tells that when children are born, invisible red threads connect them to the ones whom they are fated to be with. Over the years of their lives they come closer and eventually find each other, overcoming the distance between, and cultural and social divides.” Liu’s past Lure installations have received numerous critical reviews from prominent publications. Saatchi Online Review, UK praised the work as: “(Liu’s) intensely sensual exhibition about transformation, memory and their relations was captivating precisely because of its lightness, most notably the work ‘Lure/Return’ (Shanghai, Chris Moore, 2009). San Francisco Examiner referred to the work as “legend made visible”… and “a remarkably original installation”. (Janos Gereben, 2008). Lastly, Art in America commended Liu’s works for being “materially simple but metaphorically rich” (Janet Koplos, April 2009).
About Beili Liu
Beili Liu is a multidisciplinary artist whose artwork has been exhibited and published extensively both nationally and internationally. She has held solo exhibitions at venues such as the Norwegian National Art and Culture center; National Art Museum, Lithuania; Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai; Galerie an der Pinakothek de Modern, Munich; Onoma Foundation Granary gallery, Finland; Hå Gamle Prestegard; Asia Unlimited Gallery, Berlin, Germa1ny; Nordisk Kunst Plattform, Brusand, Norway; Hua Gallery, London; and the Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco. Liu has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, the Austin Museum of Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, San
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Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids Museum of Art and theKaunas Biennale—a survey of international cotemporary fiber art. Beili Liu’s work has received critical reviews in Art in America, Saatchi Online Review, UK, Helsinki Sanomat News, Finland, Stavanger News, Norway, China Daily,Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Ceramic Art And Perception (Technical), Australia, San Francisco Chronicle, Art Slant Los Angeles, Buffalo News, and Detroit Metro Times, among many others. Beili Liu has received awards and prizes including artist fellowships at Art Farm, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Fiskars Onoma Foundation Artist Residency, Finland, and Fundación Valparaíso, Spain. Saatchi Review, UK (http://www.saatchionline.com/) named her solo exhibition In Between one of the “Top Ten Exhibitions in Shanghai” in 2009. She received the San Francisco Major’s Award for her contribution to cultural exchange in 2008. Liu received the 3rd Prize during the ArtPrize Competition in 2009 Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2011, Beili Liu received a Distinction award at the Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania. Beili Liu received her MFA in Mixed Media from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is an associate professor of art at the University of Texas in Austin. Liu works and lives in Austin, Texas.
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BIOGRAPHY 1994 Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Literature and Communication from Shenzhen University, China 2001 Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2003 Master of Fine Arts in Mixed Media from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Exhibitions and Provenance 2012 Rise and Fall, Hua Gallery, London, UK Between Wind and Water, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA 2011 Installationen & Wandarbeiten, Galerie An Der Pinakothek Der
Moderne in Munich, Germany Recall, Hå gamle prestegard, Norwegian National Art and Culture
Center, Norway Drawn, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln The Mending Project, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin TX Extent, Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, WA 2010 Fray, Asia Unlimited Gallery, Forum für Internationalen
Kulturaustausch, Berlin, Germany
half empty . half full, Nordisk Kunst Plattform Gallery, Brusand, Norway
One, Another, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY 2009 Mapping Memories, Beili Liu and Takafumi Ide, (two person exhibition),
Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY Bound, d berman Gallery, Austin, TX
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In Between, 之间, Elisabeth de Brabant Gallery Shanghai, China Three Thousand Troubled Threads, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Miasma, Three Walls Gallery, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San
Antonio, TX 2008 LURE / 惑, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Beili Liu: LURE, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2006 Recall (shadow), Gallery One, Ann Arbor, MI
Recall (barn), A site-‐specific installation, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
Aline, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2005 Breadth, A site-‐specific installation, Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2004 The little House Stands on the Prairie, A site-‐specific installation, Art Farm, NE 2003 In-‐prints—Recent 2-‐D work by Beili Liu, Center for the Education of
Women, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fixtures, in collaboration with Kendall Babl, The Institute for the
Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2002 Beili Liu: Wayfinding, Michigan Guild Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Beili Liu: Solid State, Warren Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
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Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 Texas Draws II, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX 2011 Across the Divide, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE 11, National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania Obsessive Worlds, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX The Mona Lisa Project, Austin Museum of Art, and Grand Rapids Museum of Art 2010 Combined, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin ArtPrize Exhibition, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI Nature/Culture, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY Unraveling Tradition, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM Mind, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan By A Thread, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA 2009 IT IS BEAUTIFUL HERE, Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Finland
Fall Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at
Austin IF/ELSE, Detroit Industrial Project, Detroit, MI A Strange Land, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX The Storm Show, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI 2008 San Francisco International Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
11th Annual United States of Asian America Festival, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
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Ying-‐Inspired by Chinese art ad History, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA Aging with Attitude, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2007 Crisis, Detroit Industrial Project, MI
Earth World, Bu-‐Con, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, MI Turning Point, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI Transparent, Granary Gallery, Onoma foundation of Finland, Fiskars,
Finland in.stal.la.tion, Anton Art Center, Mount Clements, MI 2006 12+12, Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Minimal and Maximum, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
Just a squirrel, trying to find a nut, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI
Adam and Eve, Holland Arts Council, MI, Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI, Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI
2005 Collaborators’ 2, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
The Nature of Paper, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL Plexus, 4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI
2004 Art Harvest, Art Farm, Marquette, NE
42nd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival installations, Historical Michigan
Theater, Ann Arbor, MI 2003 Sound, Image, Story, Media Union Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
MFA Thesis: Above, Below, J. P. Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor 2002 A Room of Your Own, Michigan Guild Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
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Works in Progress: Spiral, J. P. Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor Earplay, Media Union, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Individual’s Culture, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
2001 Revisioning the Great Lakes, Media Union Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Air Bubble (two person show), 1010 Gallery, Knoxville, TN
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Selected Awards and Prizes 2011 Walter and Gina Ducloux Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Distinction Award, Kaunas Biennale, TEXTILE 11, Kaunas Lithuania Austin Critics Table Award: Outstanding Artist Austin Critics Table Award: Out Standing Works of Art: Installation 2010 3rd Prize, ArtPRIZE 2010, Grand Rapids, MI Austin Critics Table Awards—Outstanding Solo Exhibition, Bound, D Berman Gallery 2009 Artist of the Year Award, 3D Medium, Presented by the Austin Museum of Art and Austin Visual Arts Association Artist Residency Fellowship, Fundación Valparaíso, Spain 2008 Certificate of Honor, San Francisco Major’s award
City of San Jose San Jose Commendation, presented by Kensen Chu,
Council member Ronald Colins Distinguished Faculty Award, Eastern Michigan
University Josephine Nevins Keal Fellowship, Eastern Michigan University 2007 Artist Residency Fellowship, Onoma Foundation Fiskars Artist Residency, Finland Artistic Recognition Award, Eastern Michigan University World College Travel Grant
Best of Show—75th Anniversary All-‐Media Exhibition, Detroit Artist Market
2006 Artist Residency Fellowship, Djerassi Foundation, CA Efellows Grant Award, Eastern Michigan University
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Josephine Nevins Keal Fellowship, Eastern Michigan University 2004 Artist Residency Fellowship, Art Farm Artist residency, NE 2002 Barbour Scholarship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship, Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan, MI
2001 Best of Show Award and Fine Art Purchase Award, 54th Annual School
of Art Competition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2000 First Prize, 2-‐D Exhibition Competition, Union Center, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville Selected Press and Reviews 2011 Step into Obsessive Worlds, Steve Junious, 09.22.11, Beaumont Enterprise,
Beaumont TX Chinese Artist Beili Liu’s Mending Project, 华裔艺术家刘北立的缝补工程, 雅昌艺 术网/Arton.net, China Poignant Misfortune: Exhibition cultivating stillness and uncertainty, 06.30.11, S tavenger Aftenblad, Norway Inspired by the Homeland, Eli Naesheim, 06.11.11, Stavenger Aftenblad, Norway “Fresh Art”, Rita Eritsland, 06.10 11, Jærbladet, Norway Recall, virtualwallworld, Stavanger, Norway Suspenseful—Beili Liu’s ‘Mending Project’, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, 03.14.11, Austin American Statesman Flow of Energy—Beili Liu, 03.11,11, Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle An Artist Bridging Cultural Differences, Marilyn McCray, March 2011, Austin Women Magazine Beili Liu: The Mending Project preview, American Craft Magazine
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Beili Liu at Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, Washington, Adrianna Grant, April 2011, Visual Art Source, Seattle Featured Visual Artist: Beili Liu, 02.27.11, The Monarch Review, Seattle 2010 Art Now—The Regionalism of American Contemporary Art Environment, Abby Chen, ArtChina 艺术当代 Magazine Hand-‐coiled thread installations by Beili Liu, 12.17.10, BOOOOOOM! Michigan Artist Wins Top ArtPrize Award, 10.8.10, The Associated Press, ABC News Not just an eyeful -‐ ArtPrize finalists that actually encourage meditation, 10.4.10, Brian J. Bowe, The Rapidian At UICA, Expect the Unexpected, Highlight: Beili Liu, Jeffery Kaczmarczyk, 9.14.10, Grand Rapids Press "Inn i kunstnen"/In Side the Art, Sigrun Hodne, 06.09.2010, Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway From Berlin to Brusand, John Pertter Nordbo, 05.14.2010, Jærbladet, Norway Threads Bared in SoFA at MACLA and ICA, Jane Prybyz, 04.06.2010, ArtShrift San Jose Ties That Bind, Colin Dabkowski, 01.22.2010, The Buffalo News San José Institute Of Contemporary Art Presents “By A Thread”, 01.12.2010, Design Taxi, The global creative network 2009 Beili Liu, Top 10 Exhibitions in Shanghai 2009, Chris Moore, December, Saatchi Online Review, UK East is bound to West in artist's work, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, 09.27.2009, Austin American Statesman 一针一线,一阴一阳/A Needle and A Thread, the Yin and the Yang, 杜方舒, September, The Bund Culture, Shanghai, China
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Spirits Summoned for artist’s abstract discourse, Zhang Kun, 08.22.09, China Daily The Fun is in the Making, 追寻过程之美,轶城/Charles, September, iLOOK Monitor, Shanghai/Hongkong In Between: Beili Liu Solo Exhibition, 08.15.2009, Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art “Red Thread Connection”, Merja Ilpala-‐Klemm, 05.15.2009, Turun Sanomat, Finland The Beauty in A Sting, 05.09. 2009, HBL, Hufvudstadsbladet, Finland Seed the Language with Shimmering silk, 05.09.2009, Västra Nyland, Finland It is Beautiful Here, Exhibition Preview, May, Novita online, Finland Beili Liu at Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los Angles, Janet Koplos, April, Art in America “Now Art, For Real, Beili Liu at Three Walls Gallery”, Sarah Fisch, 03.10.2009, San Antonio Current Beili Liu, Three Walls Gallery, Wendy Atwell, March, …Might be Good, a contemporary art e-‐journal, San Antonio, TX The Wafting Bouquet of Artistic License, Sandra Vista, February, ArtSlant, Los Angeles Three Thousand Troubled Threads, Beili Liu, Los Angles, Steven Irvin, 02.03.2009, Buzzine, Los Angeles 2008 Don’t Miss, Featured Exhibition “Lure”, June, San Francisco Chronicle Legend made visible, Janos Gereben, 05.20.2008, San Francisco Examiner Lure: Beili Liu Explores the Ties that Bind Lovers, DeWitt Cheng, 05.18.2008, ArtSlant, San Francisco
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Beili Liu Lures Audience with Red String, Traci Vogel, 05.14.2008, San Francisco Weekly 国际艺术节 / International Arts Festival in San Francisco, 05.08.2008, Mingpao News, San Francisco 刘北立作品惑华阜展出/Beili Liu’s Lure on view at Chinese Culture Center, 05.08.2008, World Journal Daily News Change Dynasty, Maureen Davidson, 04.23.2008, Metro Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit Opening UICA, Paul Kraus, 04.01.2008, Revue, Grand Rapids, MI Great Inspirations, Christa Martin, 03.12.2008, Good Times Santa Cruz, CA 2007 Fiskars summer exhibitions, 05.17.2007, Turun Sanomat, Finland Läpi pintojen ja rakenteiden/Through the surfaces and structures, 05.25.2007, Helsinki Sanomat, Finland A master of water, William Zilke, 01.18.2007, Heritage Newspapers, Ypsilanti, MI 2006 On Display—Liu at WCC, John Carlos Cantu, 10.08.06, Ann Arbor News
Artist Beili Liu Exhibits at Gallery One, Katherine Mohammed, 09.11.06,
The Voice, Ann Arbor, Michigan Hang On, Beili Liu suspends our pleasure, Nick Sousanis, 01.18.06, Detroit
Metro Times Mixed-‐Media Marvels, John Carlos Cantu, 01.14.06, Ann Arbor News
2005 “Breadth” at U-‐M, Susan Selasky, 09.27.05, Detroit Free Press
Plexus @ 4731, Nick Sousanis, 08.02.05, The Detroiter Rebuilding Memories in Adobe Brick, Janet Miller, 03.20.05, Ann Arbor
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2004 A Path to Her Past, Chinese artist building a replica of her parent’s home at Art Farm, Krystal Overmyer, 08.01.04, The Independent, Grand Island, Nebraska Artist building replica of rural Chinese home, 08.08.04, World Herald, Omaha, NE
Artist builds Chinese-‐style hut, 08.08.04, Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska
2003 Inventive work involve shifting physical elements, John Carlos Cantu, 11.23.03, Ann Arbor News 2002 Wayfinding through space and time, John Carlos Cantu, 11.23.03, Ann Arbor News
Degrees 2003 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MFA Mixed Media 2001 University of Tennessee, Knoxville BA
Magna Cum Laude Graphic Design 1994 Shenzhen University, China Assoc. BA
Chinese Literature and Communication
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Please check with Hua Gallery about 3D works availability. 2D works are available for private commission.
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01 Lure Installation Series (2008-‐2012)
Thread, needle Dimensions variable (each coil 5-‐13cm diameter)
"Lure #1, a vast, hanging installation, is comprised of what must be the thousands spoken of heretofore. Red thread makes a delicate forest of suspended coils balanced slightly above the floor that, upon closer inspection, are grouped in pairs. I was lured and magnetically pulled in to trace the organic contour in a meditative walk. " -‐ Steven Irvin, 02.03.09, Buzzine, Los Angeles
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Lure Installation Series detail Red Thread Legend Series
The ancient Chinese legend of the red thread tells that when children are born, invisible red threads connect them to the ones whom they are fated to be with. Over the years of their lives they come closer and eventually find each other, overcoming the distance between, and cultural and social divides.
The installation makes use of thousands of hand spiraled coils of red thread suspended from the ceiling of the gallery. Each disk is connected to another, as a “couple”, and each pair is made from a single thread. Every coil is pierced in the center by a sewing needle, which enables the suspension of the disks a few inches from the ground. Subtle air currents set the red disks swaying and turning slowly as the loose strands of thread on the floor drift and become entangled.
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YunYan No.1 detail “Yun Yan” stands for “cloud and smoke” in Chinese, and refers to things temporal and fleeting in life. Each mark is drawn using a stick of burning incense lightly brushing onto the surface of the rice paper.
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03 Wind Drawing Series I (2012)
Aerophytes sumi ink on birch panel, set of 4 121cm by 90cm by 2.5cm "The 'Wind Drawings' (2012) comprise two botanical bodies of work, 'Pods' and 'Aerophytes', both created by blowing black sumi ink with an air-‐compressor into what read as gray branches and floral blooms against a white acrylic background, contemporary versions of traditional calligraphy painting; the reference to aerophytes, rootless plants seemingly subsisting on air, is clever and apt." -‐ DeWitt Cheng, April/May, vol6 issue4 2012, Artillery
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Series I, Aerophytes detail Sumi ink on birch panel, set of 4 121cm by 90cm by 2.5cm “I consider most of my 2D works process drawings, process being the most important and determining factor of the visual outcomes. The new Wind Drawing pieces are created using air compressor literally pushing ink to glide alone a coated surface. These drawings capture the sweeping movement of air current; the ink drift and disburse in response to the force of the air, and imprint fleeting moments of contact between the ink and the surface.”—Beili Liu
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04 Stalemate (2012)
Maple, graphite, string, mixed media Each element 15cm by 15cm by 548cm “Sure to garner the most attention here, however, is Stalemate (2012), an installation designed for Vessel Gallery's long, nave-‐like central corridor, with skylights set into its pitched roof. Liu and her husband laboriously drilled hundreds of tiny holes into two eighteen-‐foot long, sharpened, cylindrical wooden stakes. After threading strands of fishing line through the openings, they used the filaments to hang the two missiles or lances, facing each other across a yard-‐long gap, at head height. The aggressive energy of the piece is extraordinary, but so is the stasis imposed by the restraining and supporting webs, or shock waves, described by the artist as slender, soft, feminine and persistent. " -‐ DeWitt Cheng, April/May, vol6 issue4 2012, Artillery
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Stalemate detail Two 5 meters long elements are suspended in space by hundreds of cotton strings, which radiate from the thicker end of the elements.
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05 Toil (2009) Silk Organza Dimensions variable Each element of the installation is made from a thin strip of silk organza, which is cut slowly from a piece of silk fabric using burning incense.
The strips are carefully rolled in to cone shaped elements of various lengths.
Installed perpendicularly from the wall, the thin silk cones twist and toil, as if growing out of the wall surface.
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06 Origin (2008)
Chinese Spirit Money, rolled, charred 228cm in diameter In Chinese tradition, spirit money is burnt for ancestors and spirits in the afterworld as an offering. Origin is made from hundreds of rolls of spirit money; half of these rolls are with the rich and warm texture of the spirit money, shimmers of silver and gold, and the other half charred black. The circle brings together the solid and the void, the present and the absent into one complete whole, and alludes to the balance and linkage between the current world and the afterworld.
"This yin and yang is perhaps best exemplified in Origin, a large circular wall piece made of “spirit money” rolled up and mounted in opposing forces with clean regular rolls on one hemisphere, and charred and offered ones comprising the other. As with fine jewelry, the dainty elements — silver and gold hints beckoning from the edges — provide currency not only for the living, but also, in this case, power to those spirits moved on into the afterlife." —Steven Irvin, Buzzine, LA
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07 Void (2008)
Silk Organza, 49 layers
76cm by 100cm by 38.1cm Each of the 49 layers of silk organza holds a delicate ring drawn with a burning incense. Each ring reduces in size until it recedes to a small circle. Through the void of the layering black silk, the spectator is drawn to a subtle hint of light at the end of the portal.
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08 237 Minutes (2006)
Wax, wax paper 120cm by 200cm
One piece of burning charcoal, positioned on a stack of wax paper, burnt for 237 minutes.
The gradual decline of heat and destructive power of the burning charcoal is documented on the wax paper—from large dramatic burnt holes circled with shards of black ash, to the faded yellow circle, and then to a blank sheet.
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09 Affine (2011) Hand cut paper, graphite, on birch panel, set of 3 91.5cm by 122cm by 2.5cm each "Her 2012 'Affine' series—three collages on birch panels—refers to higher-‐mathematic geometrical transformations beyond the comprehension of many. They depict or rather present delicate nets of white paper, undulating as if windblown or waterborne." DeWitt Cheng, April/May, vol6 issue4 2012, Artillery
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13 Lapse (2009)
Vellum (charred) on birch panel 60.9cm by 121cm each Lapse is made from layers of vellum mounted on birch panels. The densely layered charred edges draw the visitor from one end of the composition to the opposite. Lapse can be configured horizontally or vertically.