Katherine Chang Liu Art
As an artist, Katherine Chang Liu is an anomaly. Her graduate degree in science did not prepare her to become the artist she is. Yet some fortuitous confluence of art, science and socio-cultural maturation — the threads from which the fabric of her art are woven; the stuff of life, which, though informed by reason, is by definition unreasoned — form the corpus of Liu's iconography. That is not to say that her art springs from some ethereal void.
Liu has studied art formally and informally all of her life, leading to grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission of Arts and Humanities, to name only two of her long list of achievements. Additionally, she has been a museum co-curator, lecturer and teacher of considerable international influence. Katherine grew up in Taiwan in a more or less traditional Chinese family. But in the postwar period of her youth, the tradition began to give way to "modernization," one consequence of which was to substitute the ballpoint pen for the ancient calligraphic brush, the primary instrument of poetic and aesthetic expression in Chinese culture. The noted curator J.S.M. Willette observed that Liu's painting/collages "have a component beyond expressionistic marking: they are resolutions of her Eastern heritage and Western training." The ancient Tibetan Lama Sumpo Khempo wrote that "since art embodies the mind, body and spirit, it must in truth be understood to be the highest form of learning." Katherine Chang Liu has learned well.
1980s Modern Katherine Chang Liu Art
Paper, Ink, Etching
1990s Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Archival Paper, Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Ink, Oil, Archival Paper, Etching
1980s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Ink, Oil, Archival Paper, Etching
1990s Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Paper, Lithograph
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Gesso, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée, Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Gesso, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Gold Leaf
2010s Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Gesso, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée
Early 2000s Abstract Katherine Chang Liu Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment
1880s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
2010s Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Gesso, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Gesso, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Gold Leaf
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Archival Paper, Giclée, Gesso, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic
1970s Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Lithograph
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Metal
1980s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Ink, Oil, Archival Paper