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Through the Thicket
Kristen Liu-Wong
Solo Exhibition
Opening reception - January 24th, 7-9pm
January 24th - February 2nd, 2014
BROOKLYN, NY (RELEASE January 17th, 2013) — Bunnycutlet Gallery is pleased to present Through The Thicket, a 10-day pop-up featuring new works by Kristen Liu-Wong, in what will be her first solo exhibition at the gallery.
The title Through The Thicket came to the artist while creating her first piece for the exhibition, a small acrylic painting containing images of trees, a strange farm, naked figures, and a sense that within a bright and joyous scene there looms something sinister. As the artist describes, "When you look through a thicket you'll see something that was obscured… the 'thicket' is my head, and I'm letting people see all the stupid, funky things that are in it." Liu-Wong's imagery emerges viscerally, depicting a multitude of thoughts, experiences, visual provocations, and feelings that pass through her mind. Her painted record of these things is not clear or linear, but rather concealed by her mind's interpretations - her filtering and imaginative "thicket" through which she allows us to gaze.
Employing fluorescent acrylic paints, glitter, and resin, Liu-Wong's paintings take on a candy-like and gleeful quality. Her imagery, which is often wicked or disturbing, is offset by these kinetic color and media choices. Liu-Wong takes inspiration from traditional American folk art, but paints through her own lens of contemporary urban life. This mixture of color, media and stylistic approach is evocative, charming, and idiosyncratic to this artist.
Liu-Wong's ability to present dark, secret, and deep-rooted feelings with visual euphoria is disarming. Mischievous characters and blunt, angular compositions become a symbolic foil for her tumultuous inner consciousness. The artist, describing her painting entitled "Grief," explains, "Viewers look past a tree onto a clearing where a church stands. This church hides something that arouses a girl, masturbating on the balcony. Another girl grieves for her slaughtered animal-friend as his executioner stands in triumph over her. This piece is about loss and duplicity." |
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ARTWORK ON VIEW
email bunnycutlet(at)gmail(dot)com for availability
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Anatomy of a Robot
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
18 x 24 inches
$900
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Atlantis
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin, Glitter
8 x 8 inches
$350
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Atrium House
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin
9 x 12 inches
$550
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Bees Help Support the World
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin
5 x 7 inches
$200
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Bennett
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin, Glitter
11 x 14 inches
$750
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Kristen Liu-Wong
The Study of Botany
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin
6 x 6 inches
$250
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Float
Acrylic on Wood, Resin
8 x 8 inches
$350
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Grief
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin
11 x 14 inches
$750
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Kristen Liu-Wong
The Ward Home
acrylic on wood panel, resin
16 x 16 inches
$850
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Kristen Liu-Wong
I Can’t Dive
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin
11 x 14 inches
$750
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Meatfarm
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin, Glitter
18 x 14 inches
$850
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Molepeople
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin, Glitter
8 x 10 inches
$500
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Kristen Liu-Wong
The New Idiot
Acrylic on Wood, Resin
12 x 9 inches
$500
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Nude Bear
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin
6 x 6 inches
$250
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Room
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin, Glitter
8 x 8 inches
$350
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Stairs
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin, Glitter
5 x 7 inches
$200
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Still Life
Acrylic on Paper
4.75 x 7 inches
$300
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Still Life With Fly
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin
7 x 5 inches
$200
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Tree House
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin, Glitter
18 x 24 inches
$1,000
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Kristen Liu-Wong
Triangle Man
Acrylic on Wood Panel, Resin
6 x 6 inches
$250
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kristen Liu-Wong is a Brooklyn based artist from San Francisco, CA. She studied illustration at at Pratt Institute. This is Liu-Wong's first solo exhibition at Bunnycutlet Gallery.
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Kristen Liu-Wong installing her mural at Bunnycutlet for Through The Thicket.
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OPENING
DJ Nithya Rajendran
Photography Annie Tao
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Kristen Liu-Wong during the opening of Through The Thicket.
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