Hung Liu

Hung Liu is an established painter and professor at Mills College in Oakland. I was first introduced to her work at the Oakland Museum, and later became more familiar with her when my friend Sean Boyles studied at Mills for his MFA. They were a tight-knit pair, and it gave us a warm feeling knowing that Sean had a painting mentor at Mills, a college that highly encourages New Media like installation, performance and video; placing an importance on the cerebral and conceptual over the technique and expression of making Art. Many an MFA breeze through without getting their feet wet, and I think we all know who those people are and it'd be better for everyone to leave it at that.

Hung Liu's "Three Graces", 80 x 80

Sean Boyles Bottle Bum Army - shown at Rowan Morrison in '06