A crowd of students, faculty and community members gathered in Rieth Recital Hall on Sunday to listen to Hung Liu lecture about topics and issues in art. Liu is known for her paintings drawn from Chinese historical photography. She focuses on what she calls “mythic poses” of photographs, including the human activities of “laboring, eating, journeying, leaping, fighting, dreaming and carrying one’s burden.” Liu grew up in Communist-controlled China, which didn’t allow women to attend universities. “We once truly believed in Communism, in a socialist Utopian dream and in heroism,” said Liu. “I have since replaced those beliefs with a...

By Alysha Landis • February 18, 2009 • Arts

Hung Liu, this year’s Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist, will present a public lecture on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Rieth Recital Hall. Liu, a native of China, is an internationally-acclaimed artist whose work has been featured in the Smithsonian Institution, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the National Museum of American Art. Liu’s art combines traditional Chinese imagery and symbolism with her own unique, modern twist. She currently works as a professor of visual arts at Mills College in Oakland, California. The lecture is free and will be followed by a reception with the artist and her work in...

By Ben Noll • February 11, 2009 • Arts

With bold prints, current Hershberger Gallery artist Hung Liu questions history, issues around feminism, Chinese politics and the universe. Born in 1948 in Changchun, China during the time of the communist Mao Zedong regime, Hung was sent to work in the rice fields for four years as a high school senior. Ordered to paint art glorifying the Mao regime, Hung found a correlation between the hopeless faces of present-day Chinese women workers and the old photographs of past Emperors and their wives, inserting challenging references in the propaganda she painted. Hung studied art and earned her bachelor’s of fine arts...

By Andrea Kraybill • January 28, 2009 • Arts

Kristi Glick, a 1997 Goshen College graduate, and Anne Binder, a local artist, combine artistic work and vision in a two-part exhibit currently on display in the Hershberger Art Gallery, located in the Goshen College Music Center. The exhibit opened in November and will continue through Jan. 18. Glick and Binder will give their Topics and Issues talk on Sunday, Jan. 18, at 1:30 p.m. in the gallery and will discuss their work in the process of creating. According to Judy Wenig-Horswell, associate professor of art, Glick, a former student, was actually an interdisciplinary major with a concentration in art,...

By Elizabeth Beachy • January 14, 2009 • Arts