http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/05/hung-liu-rena-bransten/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/05/hung-liu-rena-bransten/comment-page-1/#comment-3419 Rear View Mirror: 2010 | SquareCylinder.com Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:21:48 +0000 http://www.squarecylinder.com/?p=4782#comment-3419 [...] Hung Liu @ Rena Bransten. Hung Liu’s latest cycle of paintings feels, at first, like a departure.  But is it? People are absent, and so is her usual narrative structure.  But like the elegiac, rivulet-stained oil paintings of nineteenth century and pre-Revolutionary women that, for decades, she has been painting from period photos, these pictures carry a heavy load:  the weight of mortality. Liu grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and witnessed all kinds of suffering; but she has never, as far as I know, taken on mortality directly.  She does so here using animals as surrogates. Read the full story… [...] [...] Hung Liu @ Rena Bransten. Hung Liu’s latest cycle of paintings feels, at first, like a departure.  But is it? People are absent, and so is her usual narrative structure.  But like the elegiac, rivulet-stained oil paintings of nineteenth century and pre-Revolutionary women that, for decades, she has been painting from period photos, these pictures carry a heavy load:  the weight of mortality. Liu grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and witnessed all kinds of suffering; but she has never, as far as I know, taken on mortality directly.  She does so here using animals as surrogates. Read the full story… [...]

]]> http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/05/hung-liu-rena-bransten/comment-page-1/#comment-579 Merrilee Mitchell Mon, 10 May 2010 02:11:37 +0000 http://www.squarecylinder.com/?p=4782#comment-579 I see deer hit by cars on Skyline and live deer and new fauns every spring in the park in back of my house - this will change my view of all of them. Fascinating exhibit even if a bit disturbing. I see deer hit by cars on Skyline and live deer and new fauns every spring in the park in back of my house – this will change my view of all of them. Fascinating exhibit even if a bit disturbing.

]]> http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/05/hung-liu-rena-bransten/comment-page-1/#comment-557 Frances Baler Sat, 08 May 2010 05:26:55 +0000 http://www.squarecylinder.com/?p=4782#comment-557 The deer. The robin. The unliving engage my mind in troubling ways. I say Bravo! The deer. The robin. The unliving engage my mind in troubling ways. I say Bravo!

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