Hung Liu: Seedlings

from Hung Liu: Seedlings

by Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

HUNG LIU: "Seedlings"

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The title of Hung Liu’s current show of editioned works on paper, Seedlings, has a double reference, both to young plants and to children. The exhibition at the Sherry Leedy Gallery is comprised of twenty archival pigment prints and hand-leafed monoprints, in which images from Liu’s paintings are layered on paper surfaces with gold- and silver-leaf. Drawing from the Dustbowl era photographs of young children (and sometimes their pets) by Dorothea Lange, as well as from her own closeup shots of dandelions about to go to seed, Liu’s paper works reflect the transitory forces of life, and the tender effort to stand against them for as long as possible. Whether migrant children of the Dustbowl or dandelion seeds, sooner or later all will be blown, like seedlings, to the winds. The hope embodied in these little dispersions is that their seeds will be sewn among other families and upon other hillsides. In this sense, the artist’s use of paper – rather than canvas or resin – is itself an expression of a certain lightness of being.

Jeff Kelley 5.21.20

South, 2017 Archival pigment print 38.75” x 32” Edition of 8/9

Cotton Carrier (silver), 2019 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 7/9 9.

Book Club (gold), 2019 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 9/9 11.

Migrant Child: With Cat (silver), 2018 Monotype with hand leafing 28.75” x 24.75” Edition of 5/9

Tobacco Sharecroppers (silver), 2017 Monotype with hand leafing 33” x 32” Edition of 9 (PP)

Young Okie (gold), 2019 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 6/9

Migrant Child: With Puppy (silver), 2018 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 7/9

Dandelion with Small Bird (gold), 2019 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 3/9

Dandelion with Fishes (gold), 2019 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 3/9

Dandelion with Praying Mantis (gold), 2019 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 6/9 23.

Dandelion with Red Bird (gold), 2017 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 9/9

Angel Wings (silver), 2019 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 3/9

Water Catcher (Quenching), 2018 Archival pigment prints 32” x 31” Edition of 5/9

South - Gold, 2018 Monotype with hand leafing 36” x 35” Edition of 9/9

Migrant Child: With Kitty (gold), 2018 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 7/9

Migrant Child: With Bunny (gold), 2018 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 31” Edition of 3/9

Cottonfield (silver), 2017 Monotype with hand leafing 32” x 41” Edition of 7/9

Open Sky, 2017 Archival pigment print 32” x 31” Edition of 6/9

HUNG LIU: "Seedlings"

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