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 Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Ink, Oil, Archival Paper, Etching
1980s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Etching, Ink, Oil, Archival Paper
1990s Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Lithograph, Paper
1990s Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Archival Paper, Lithograph
1980s Modern Katherine Chang Liu Art
Etching, Paper, Ink
1980s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
1880s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
1910s Modern Katherine Chang Liu Art
Etching
Early 20th Century American Modern Katherine Chang Liu Art
Resin, Aquatint
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
1930s American Modern Katherine Chang Liu Art
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
20th Century Abstract Impressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Katherine Chang Liu Art
Offset, Parchment Paper, Lithograph
2010s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Emulsion, Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color,...
1930s Abstract Katherine Chang Liu Art
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Etching
1980s Abstract Expressionist Katherine Chang Liu Art
Ink, Oil, Archival Paper