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Hung Liu: Prodigal Daughter

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May 24 – July 21, 2008 Reception for the artist: Saturday, May 24, 3 – 6 pm

F2 Gallery is honored to present “Prodigal Daughter” by Liu Hung, an artist possessing a prominent voice in both the American contemporary art and academic worlds. This exhibition is the first presentation of her work in Beijing since leaving China for North America in 1984. The series of fourteen paintings, each inspired by the 1949 film, Daughters of China, is the continuation of her relentless survey of Chinese history through personal reflections. Known for paintings drawn from Chinese photography and still images taken from Mao-era Chinese propaganda films, Liu often depicts such elemental human activities as laboring and, fighting and, journeying from particular historical circumstances with an overlay of traditional Chinese birds, flowers and insects to elevate her subjects with their own rich heritage to be epic, trans-historical and allegorical.

Born in 1948 in Changchun, China, Liu received her education in Beijing in the 1960s and 70s. Among the first generation to be raised within the Communist People’s Republic of China, Liu watched Daughters of China at an early age and believed the rhetoric and propaganda promoted by the film. Fifty-eight years after the film was released, and twenty-three years after having lived and worked in the United States, Liu revisited the film from a very different perspective. Liu Hung’s work is included in the Logan Collection, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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This series of 14 paintings, all inspired by the 1949 film "Daughters of China," marks Liu's first exhibition in China since leaving for North America in 1984. An internationally exhibited artist, Liu's work draws integrates images from Chinese photography and film to elucidate Liu's relationship to her homeland.