Adrian Parr Zaretsky and Liu Shiming
Liu Shiming Art Foundation
A.Z is a painter, filmmaker, creative writer, and philosopher. Drawing on the affective intensity of physical and psychological sensation, she brings these into tension with the image economies of popular culture and social media. Through compositional structure she introduces relations of violence not as spectacle, but as a condition of looking: a force that organizes proximity, power, and vulnerability within the painted field.
Liu Shiming (1926–2010), among the first generation of sculptors trained in early French modernism and traditional Chinese art, developed an independent artistic language grounded in everyday life and forms. Working primarily in sculpture, he privileged expressive presence over formal exactitude, treating ordinary figures and gestures as enduring vessels of cultural memory and human experience.
Together they create a conversation around the everyday lives of women taking place against the backdrop of global social upheaval and change.
- Section Mixed Media Art
- Venue Palazzo Mora
- Based in Eugene, USA
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