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Calendar Girl, 2022

Mixed media resin on panel

20.5" x 20.5" x 2"

ready to hang

Signed by Jeff Kelley on behalf of the Hung Liu Estate

Hung Liu (Chinese, b.1948) was a renowned painter, born in Changchun, China. In 1975, she attended Beijing Teachers College in Beijing, and after that she studied mural painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. As a young woman, Liu was sent to the Chinese countryside for four years during the Cultural Revolution. Enrolling at the University of California in San Diego, La Jolla, CA, she had to wait four years to receive a passport and finally graduated with an MFA in 1986. Most of Liu's paintings have their basis in anonymous Chinese historical photographs.

In 2003, Hung Liu began working with David Salgado, of Trillium Graphics, to create hybrid works combining aspects of painting and printmaking. Together they developed an elaborate process for embedding images - from Liu's own paintings, historical photographs, traditional Chinese motifs - in layers of translucent resin upon which Liu would then paint in her signature improvisational style. This resulted in a extended body of mixed-media panels that allowed Liu to experiment with process while painting "by other means."

Liu held numerous solo exhibitions in different places, including Foreign Students Dining Hall, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (1981), Brazos Gallery, Richard College, Dallas, TX (1988), and Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, IL (2010). In addition, she has also participated in many group exhibitions in diverse places, such as Winter Palace Gallery, Beijing, China (1978), Asia Society Galleries, New York, NY (1994), and Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (2010).

Liu was an accomplished artist, and over the years, she received many awards, grants, and recognitions. Some of these include the Capp Street Project Stipend, San Francisco, CA (1988) and the Contemporary Art by Women of Color Artists' Award, Guadalupe Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX (1990). Since 1990, Liu was a professor of painting at Mills College, Oakland, CA. She was represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, the Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL. Liu lived and worked in Oakland, CA.