The Tamarind Institute Shows New Lithographs by Hung Liu

Written by Chuck Haggerstone Friday, 21 October 2011 21:17

Albuquerque, New Mexico.- The Tamarind Insitute is pleased to present "Hung Liu : Pressed Memory", on view in the gallery until December. Hung Liu, a highly respected and widely collected American artist, returned to Tamarind in early August to create lithographs for the third time with Tamarind printers. Liu’s new Tamarind lithographs will be exhibited, together with prints from her previous Tamarind projects, and prints from Shark’s, Inc. in Lyons, Colorado, and Paulson Press in Oakland, California. On view from 21st October through December.

Born in China in 1948, Hung lived in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution, when she was sent to the countryside to do hard labor as part of the Communist “re-education” effort. Although her personal artistic pursuits were temporarily derailed, she eventually attended the University of California at San Diego and developed a distinguished career in the United States as a teacher and artist. She says that she arrived in the United States “with a 4,000 year old culture on my back and a late 20th century world in my face.” Hung Liu is well-known for her hauntingly beautiful paintings and prints that address issues of marginality and displacement. Looking for the “mythic pose” behind the human figure, Hung Liu takes her subjects from Chinese historical photographs and weaves in traditional, symbolic motifs to create a dialogue between ancient and contemporary history.

The Tamarind Institute, a division of the College of Fine Arts at UNM, is a nonprofit center for fine art lithography that trains master printers and houses a professional collaborative studio for artists. Founded in 1960 in Los Angeles, Tamarind played a significant role in reviving the art of lithography in the United States and continues to provide professional training and publishing opportunities worldwide. Tamarind Institute is recognized internationally for its contributions to the growth of contemporary printmaking around the world. Originally based in Los Angeles the institute moved to Albuquerque in 1970 to became a division of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico. Over the ensuing decades Tamarind has established a stalwart reputation for producing exquisite prints while also educating and training students as master collaborative printmakers. While based in New Mexico Tamarind Institute has worked extensively with artists and arts communities around the world to broaden knowledge of their mission and to produce projects with artists. Visit the institute's website at ... http://tamarind.unm.edu/

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