BUST: Conceptual Artist Michele Pred's New Exhibition →

September 15, 2022

Conceptual Artist Michele Pred’s New Exhibition Takes On Race and Gender-Equality In Fine Arts

Swedish-American conceptual artist Michele Pred is taking the movement for women’s rights to a whole new, brighter level (literally). Beginning September 8 and running through November 5, 2022, Pred’s latest exhibition entitled Equality of Rights will be on display at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York. There will be an Equal Pay performance at 7pm on September 15 and a reception open to the public held that same evening from 6-8pm.

WHITEWALLER: Michele Pred: Equality of Rights →

September 08, 2022

Michele Pred: Equality of Rights

Nancy Hoffman Gallery is presenting Michele Pred's "Equality of RIghts," following the artist's ongoing fight for equal rights for women.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 - NOVEMBER 5, 2022

*Frank Owen, Venture (2022) and Definer (2022), both acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 inches. Photo by Jason Andrew*

Two Coats Paint: Frank Owen, trailblazing innovator

August 17, 2022

Contributed by Jason Andrew / I first came to know the work of Frank Owen over two decades ago through the sculptor Joel Perlman. I stepped off the elevator at Perlman’s studio on West Broadway and immediately encountered an Owen painting. It seemed fitting to discover such a physical painter as Owen through a sculptor. Only recently I learned that the title of that painting was Augmented Position, also fitting insofar as Owen has challenged and changed the way one can experience painting. The proof is in his current show “Retrospection,” on view at Nancy Hoffman Gallery.

Michele Pred in Art News - May 4, 2022

May 05, 2022

San Francisco–based artist Michele Pred, whose works utilize women’s clothing to highway billboards to address reproductive rights, says she is focused on disseminating information about access to abortion pills at an upcoming show at Nancy Hoffman gallery in New York. “We have to consider every body and all women’s bodies in this country.”

Judy Fox Receives Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

April 28, 2022

The American Academy of Arts and Letters awards Judy Fox a 2022 Arts and Letters award in recognition of artistic achievement.

Hung Liu Portraits of Promised Lands

March 03, 2022

Unveiled on August 27,2021, just weeks after the passing of Hung Liu from pancreatic cancer, “Portraits of Promised Lands” was not just a highly anticipated celebration of the artist’s career of five decades, but a vital opportunity for insights into Liu’s life and artistic concerns, including issues of identity.

Forbes: Hung Liu’s Crying Canvases Reframe Immigration Stories At Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery →

October 27, 2021

Hung Liu’s Crying Canvases Reframe Immigration Stories At Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Chadd Scott Contributor

Arts

The popular American immigration fantasy focuses on the positive. On the receiving end. On America’s welcoming arms for “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Horatio Alger success stories.

This conversation positions migrants as eager American citizens starting exciting new lives, not as people with full–and generally tragic–histories before wanting–and generally needing–to uproot themselves and go to America.

Immigrants dating all the way back to the European colonizers of North America didn’t pull up stakes to try making a new life here because it was their preferred option. They were forced to leave by religious persecution, famine, poverty, plagues, war, natural disasters–traumas. Precious few people choose to dislocate themselves and their families from their homes to roll the dice on a new life in a country where they don’t speak the language, have little money and often aren’t welcome for the “adventure” of it.

HYPERALLERGIC: A Final Show Honors the Legacy of a Bay Area Art Legend Hung Liu, an artist who “defied the stereotype that’s thrust on Asian women.” →

October 12, 2021

A Final Show Honors the Legacy of a Bay Area Art Legend Hung Liu, an artist who “defied the stereotype that’s thrust on Asian women.”

by Emily Wilson

SAN FRANCISCO — “Resident Alien 2021” is the “brilliant linchpin” of Hung Liu’s solo show, Golden Gate (金門), at the de Young Museum, says curator Janna Keegan.

For the show, Liu updated this piece, which she first exhibited in 1988 at San Francisco’s Capp Street Project. Based on her green card, it takes up the whole back wall of the museum’s atrium, with “Cookie, Fortune” replacing her name, and the year of her birth changed from 1948 to 1984 — the year she moved to the United States.

The show, up through next March, explores migration, and is anchored by Liu’s story. Born in Changchun, China, the artist was sent to work in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and studied mural painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She immigrated to the United States when she was 35 years old to get her MFA at the University of California, San Diego. Along with “Resident Alien,” the show includes “Chinese Shrimp Junk II” (1994), originally part of the exhibition Old Gold Mountain at the de Young (1994), which dealt with the histories of Chinese immigrants in California during the Gold Rush, before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Old Gold Mountain featured 200,000 fortune cookies heaped on top of railroad tracks.

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Smithsonian Magazine: The Revolutionary Portraiture of Hung Liu For this large-scale retrospective of the Asian American artist, who died this summer, east meets west in an exquisite collision →

October 07, 2021

Two years ago, the works of artist Hung Liu were readied for a major exhibition in China, the country of her youth. Mere months from opening day, the show was censored by the government, import permits denied.

Liu’s adopted homeland is much more open-minded and forgiving.

A retrospective exhibition "Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands" at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery features Liu’s autobiographical paintings and images of nameless outcasts—migrants, refugees, orphans and prostitutes—in which she seeks to give voice to her marginalized subjects. The first major show of Liu’s work on the east coast after years of acclaim closer to the Pacific, where for more than two decades she was a professor at Mills College in Oakland, California, is also the first retrospective for an Asian American woman artist at the museum.

Martha Stewart Living - October 2021

October 05, 2021

The first time Purdy Eaton visited Sharon, Connecticut, she’d come to see a friend - on what turned out to be “a brutally cold February weekend,” she says. Despite the weather, Purdy, an artist whose work is shown in galleries across the country, was smitten the town of about 2700, situated just east of the New York border. To her, Sharon offered “all the good things of a small town - friendly people and access to nature,” plus an easy commute from New York City, where she and her husband, Josh, who runs an investment firm, live in a Tribeca apartment with their children, Sawyer, 14 and Huxley, 11. By the weekend’s end, she’d decided to book a place in town for the summer.