Voluptious in appearance, Filled with light and shimmer, the "Za Zhong" (or literally, "bastard paintings",) break new territory for the artist as she honors her traditional subject matter of women and historical images from China

In a traditional print, all the layers (of whatever the media) are on top of one another. That is to say, each color of a print is printed as a seperate layer. A twenty color print has twenty layers. In Hung Liu's "Za Zhong" pieces, each mounted on a wooden box, the layers are separated by 1/8 inch of resin. Like the progeny of paintings, these works begin with a digital base image sampled from the artist's own oeuvre, a pigment print on transparency creates one layer coated in resin. This allows Liu to redraw her image, alter it and transform it from the original painting's source, setting the stage for the subsequent layers of cast resin, painting in oil, ink or collage elements from historical sources or from the artist's own paintings. Thus, each "Za Zhong" Takes on a life of it's own. Each piece is unique.

Click Here to download a PDF showing the process of making a Za Zhong piece at Trillium Graphics, or download Hung Liu's Artist's Biography.

Voluptious in appearance, Filled with light and shimmer, the "Za Zhong" (or literally, "bastard paintings",) break new territory for the artist as she honors her traditional subject matter of women and historical images from China

In a traditional print, all the layers (of whatever the media) are on top of one another. That is to say, each color of a print is printed as a seperate layer. A twenty color print has twenty layers. In Hung Liu's "Za Zhong" pieces, each mounted on a wooden box, the layers are separated by 1/8 inch of resin. Like the progeny of paintings, these works begin with a digital base image sampled from the artist's own oeuvre, a pigment print on transparency creates one layer coated in resin. This allows Liu to redraw her image, alter it and transform it from the original painting's source, setting the stage for the subsequent layers of cast resin, painting in oil, ink or collage elements from historical sources or from the artist's own paintings. Thus, each "Za Zhong" Takes on a life of it's own. Each piece is unique.

Click Here to download a PDF showing the process of making a Za Zhong piece at Trillium Graphics, or download Hung Liu's Artist's Biography.

Prints and Portfolios:

In Addition to the Za Zhong pieces, Trillium Graphics has published more traditional prints and portfolios of Hung Liu's art.

We have done serial monoprints, lithographs and archival pigment print editions, Please click on the thumbnail images on the right to see the prints and portfolios

download Hung Liu's Artist's Biography.