Tiffany Liu

Tiffany Liu has crafted a compelling and absorbing visual world - a playful and sometimes macabre phantasmagoria filtered through the eyes of an adult artist who demonstrates that the adoption of a ‘childlike’ point-of-view need not be one merely based on reductionism. Liu has been surrounded by art her whole life: both of her parents are artists, and she recalls that much of her youth was spent staring at paintings in the family-owned art gallery/studio as she learned to draw. At the age of six, her options for a future career had already been narrowed down to three choices: an artist, a singer or an astronaut. In the end, Liu opted for art.

Liu’s canvas is her playground. Awash in rainbow hues and populated with a veritable circus of cute (and freaky) creatures, her candy-coloured acrylic paintings are at once both strangely familiar (they reference the visual style of vintage storybooks, board game graphics, and nursery décor), and oddly jarring. Liu's are booby-trapped images wherein things are seldom as they seem, with disturbing complexities often lying just below their colourful surfaces. Yet, the apparent disconnect between visual style and subject matter finds synthesis in Liu's assured and masterful rendering of her strange little world.

Tiffany Liu was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1981. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Exhibition History

2009 CoproNason Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (December): Solo Show: Gold Dust
2009 Nucleus, Alhambra, Los Angeles (December): Power By Numbers Show
2009 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (December): Multi-Plane Show
2009 GhettoGloss Gallery, Los Angeles (September): The Human Pyramids Artist Collective Show
2009 ExhibitAGallery, Los Angeles (August): Bipolar Show
2009 Nucleus, Alhambra, Los Angeles (August): Sweet Streets Show
2009 CoproNason Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (July): Monsters Show
2009 London Miles Gallery, Notting Hill, UK (July): Candy Coated Canvas Show
2009 Rivet Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (July): We’ll be back... after these messages.
2009 Subtext Gallery, Comi-Con, San Diego (July): Meanwhile... at the Hall of Justice.
2009 Atticus Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (January): Nobody walks in LA.
2008 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (July): Solo Show: Life, Death and the Imbetween
2007 Project Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (December): Christmas Show.
2007 Subtext, San Diego, Los Angeles (November): Kokeshi Show.
2007 Gallery 1988, San Fransisco (August): Back for Seconds.
2007 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (August): Literartistry.
2007 CoproNason Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (May): Solo Show: It was all a dream.
2007 Black Maria Gallery, Glendale, Los Angeles (March): Cult of Childhood.
2007 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (Febuary): Paint by Number’s Show.
2006 Wax Poetic Gallery, Burbank, Los Angeles (November): Christmas Show.
2006 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (October): Mommy, Mommy! Theres an Artist Under My Bed Show.
2006 Thinkspace, Silverlake, Los Angeles (September): Picks Of the Harvest Show
2006 Black Maria Gallery, Glendale, Los Angeles (June): Group Show
2006 Bamboo Lane Gallery, China Town, Los Angeles (April): Near Reality Four - Man Show
2006 Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, Los Angeles (March): Unicorn Show
2006 Gallery ThinkSpace, Silverlake, Los Angeles (March):Traimese Show

Artwork

Hybrid Flower Family
The Celebration of the Money Tree
Together in Heaven

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