Hung Liu

Born February 17, 1948 in Changchun, People's Republic of China, and immigrated to the United States in 1984. Hung attended Beijing Teachers College in 1975 and studied mural painting as a graduate student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She is a class of '86 alumna of UC, San Diego. Her paintings and prints often make use of anonymous Chinese historical photographs, particularly those of women, children, refugees, and soldiers as subject matter.

Trillium has had the great privilege of working collaboratively with Hung on several projects some of which are represented on this site. Recently we were honored to create a body of work with her that was shown at the Di Rosa Preserve in Napa Valley California, as well as many others. To find out more about our work with Hung please contact us, PS. we are available for tours!

Featured Work:

Wings II, 2011
41 x 41" Mixed media on panel - "Za Zhong"

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Hung Liu

Editions:

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 available prints

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Hung Liu

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.

To find out more about the artist, including other works and to find out the galleries who represent her check out her website here

Hung Liu

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.