5/9/08-7/5/08: Lure/惑 - Installation Art by Beili Liu
Lure/惑 by Beili Liu
劉北立大型裝置藝術展: 惑
Official Selection of the San Francisco International Arts Festival
舊金山國際藝術節指定展覽
11th Annual United States of Asian America Festival
11屆亞美藝術節指定展覽
Runs May 9 – July 5th, 2008
Chinese Culture Center Gallery
750 Kearny Street, Third Floor (inside the Hilton Hotel).
Gallery Hours Tue.-Sat, 10-4
Admission: Free
“Absolutely stunning…A must see!” - Flo Oy Wong
“Poetic…” - Jay Xu, Director of Asian Art Museum
“Don’t Miss!” - SF Chronicle/96 Hours
“Lure” is emotional, meticulous, and, yes, beautiful.” - SF Weekly
“Legend Made Visible” - SF Examiner
The Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco kicks off its new Xin Rui (Fresh and Sharp) exhibition series featuring the work of prominent, emerging Chinese-American contemporary artists with “Lure惑”, a dramatic installation by Michigan-based artist Beili Liu. In her first Bay Area solo showing, Liu explores the Chinese myth of the invisible Red Thread that binds lovers by the ankle from birth. With each passing day, the thread pulls them closer until at last they find each other, overcoming distance and social and cultural divides. “Lure 1”, the highlight of the installation, makes use of hundreds of paired coils of red thread delicately suspended in the gallery. Subtle air currents set the red disks swaying and turning slowly like water lilies as the loose strands of thread on the floor drift and become entangled. With a little effort, visitors can discover the connected “couples”, though the swaying disks have their own “moves” and “affairs” regardless of the lines and connections beneath
Beili Liu is known for her uncanny ability to transform simple, everyday materials in curious ways that are evocative of both her Chinese heritage and her experience in the United States. Her elegant installations and sculptural work explore transience, fragility and the passing of time.
Related event: Beili Liu Artist Lecture, May 10, 2008
Future of Chinese Art & Chinese Artist in US, May 31, 2008
Co-presented by Redclay Art Lovers Club
Partial Funding provided by the Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and the San Francisco Foundation
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Hi Beili,
Wonderful work!
Best regards,
Lampo
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Lampo Leong
Chair, Department of Art
Associate Professor of Art, Painting & Drawing
University of Missouri-Columbia
Dept. of Art, A129 Fine Arts, Columbia, MO 65211-6090
Office: 573-882-3761
Fax: 573-884-6807
Email: LeongL@Missouri.edu
Leong Website: http://www.LampoLeong.com
Art Dept Website: http://art.missouri.edu
University Website: http://web.missouri.edu
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Dear Chinese Culture Center:
I sent this letter to the Examiner today, about your fine installation. I hope you get lots of visitors. Thank you for hosting the exhibit.
–Will Walker
Dear Editor:
I’m writing to thank the Examiner for Janos Gereben’s enthusiastic review of Beili Liu’s installation art at the Chinese Culture Center. On the strength of his description, my wife, a friend, a I visited the Center and found the work fascinating. It’s a meditative and evocative piece.
I am hopeful that this installation will be widely viewed and appreciated, and I look forward to future exhibits in the Center’s series on contemporary Chinese-American artists.
Yours truly,
Will Walker
June 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I just wanted to write to you that the Exhibit is AMAZING!! I brought some friends there and i have heard from many other people how impressed they were by the exhibit! Congrats for getting Beili Liu and having her work at the center. the construction video is also amazing, when i have time i will comeback to watch it as i heard Mr. Zhou is the star!
July 10th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Thank you for this visual prayer, this magical journey…may we all meet our true loves and always have the resources to treat them like the royalty they are……you have given us the map. We are grateful.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Love the idea that cultural related materials are introduced in the works to deeper to cultural sense.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
This exhibit is wonderful - the red thread story and this marvelous installation are captivating. I also appreciated the video piece with the disentangling of the threads - such a metaphor of connection and sometimes the need for disconnection.