Questions from the Sky: New Work by Hung Liu

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The San Jose Museum of Art will present a surprising new installation by noted Bay Area artist Hung Liu this summer. Questions from the Sky represents a personal direction for Liu’s work, as well as a different medium. Liu is best-known for her lush paintings based on historical photographs of China. She contemplates the cycles of life, death, and memory in an installation of three videos: Black Rain, Candle, and Between Sky and Earth (all 2013). The videos will be accompanied by paintings and digital prints on aluminum, as well as by a large wall painting that Liu will complete in a public performance on June 20. Questions from the Sky is SJMA’s contribution to a Bay Area tribute to Hung Liu’s work that began with Mills College Art Museum’s presentation of Hung Liu: Offerings (January 23–March 17, 2013), followed by the Oakland Museum of California’s Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu (through June 30, 2013).