A choice of new work from artist Crystal Liu (formerly showcased below). Born in Toronto, Canada to Chinese immigrants, Liu majored in photography at Ontario School of Art & Design and style and obtained an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. Whilst her key muse is nature, her perform often attracts on the custom of Chinese landscape painting and her personal everyday lifetime activities — her associations and curiosity — to communicate to the complexities of human conduct and emotion.
For illustration, her collection “our place” was established in reaction to the sudden decline of Liu’s father all through the starting of the pandemic. Looking for consolation from her extensive walks in mother nature, Liu generates a desire back garden comprehensive of white chrysanthemums, poppies, forget-me-nots, bluebells, and echinacea for her and her father to fulfill. These several flower species, rendered in her boldest use of color to day, point to bigger tips of appreciate and the assure to remember. Liu’s minimalist silk works — “catch the light” — are likewise billed with a distinctive individual narrative, inviting viewers to derive consolation, healing and perception from Liu’s dreamy planet.
Verify out extra photographs below from Liu’s newest exhibition, “too before long for so prolonged,” below or on exhibit at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York Town right until November 12.