“Recognized as America’s most prominent Chinese artist, Hung Liu is mostly known for paintings based on historical Chinese photographs. Over the years, her subjects have included prostitutes, refugees, street preformers, soldiers, laborers, and prisoners, among others.”

“At first glance, the idea of Hung Liu creating a series of paintings based on the photographs of Dorothea Lange might seem a strange departure for a Chinese-born artist whose best-known work has largely centered on her native country.”

“Hung Liu’s grandfather, Liu Weihua - who helped raise and educate her - was China’s most important scholar on the subject of Qianshan, a cluster of nearly one thousand mountain peaks in Northern China where Taoist and Buddhist monasteries have co-existed for centuries.”

“This catalog includes Hung Liu’s most recent oil paintings created for Apsaras, her monumental one-person exhibition at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery.”

“Hung Liu’s first American museum exhibition features intimate scale drawings, watercolors, and oils from the Cultural Revolution juxtaposed with monumental oil paintings from 1996 to 1997 created in her Oakland, California studio.”

“A catalogue accompanying the first major exhibition of Liu’s multi-layered resin and pigment works with images inspired by historical Chinese photographs.”