Unoffical Portraits (The Bride) Edition 29/30

Hung Liu grew up in China and came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.  She spent four years in the countryside as a laborer, studied painting at the Central Academy of Art and in 1984 she received permission to come to the U.S. for schooling.  She teaches art at Mills College in Oakland, California. Using anonymous historical photographs as the subject for her work, she reconstructs an unknown story.  She embellishes the surfaces with drawings of insects, flowers and birds, painterly drips and collage elements that create a veil of time and meaning over her subjects.