Hung Liu: Drawing From Life and Death May 21, 2010

In a departure from her traditional referencing of historical photographs, this new body of work is comprised of paintings, drawings, and ceramic tiles that directly depict the dead -- they are studies or contemplations of the ultimate still-life. Liu encountered her subjects, which have already crossed over to the "other side," on hikes near her Oakland home -- two deer, a fawn -- or, in the case of a Robin Red-Breast, the parking lot of her studio, or on several visits to a local medical facility where she was invited to view human cadavers.