by Tonya Turner Carroll | Aug 1, 2014 | Igor Melnikov, Hung Liu, News
The month of August finds us featuring artists we have shown for a very long time along with artists more recently represented. All have the common experience of growing up in single-party states where they ran up against the authorities. Most have since emigrated...
by Michael Carroll | Jul 3, 2014 | Igor Melnikov, News
“For me, these are not portraits of children, but portraits of human souls,” says Moscow-born artist Igor Melnikov. Each is a picture “of a soul immersed in itself, reticent, perplexed, searching for and preserving a hope. If you take the message of this portrait to...
by Tonya Turner Carroll | Apr 8, 2014 | Hung Liu, Squeak Carnwath, News
Hung Liu’s etching “Luzao (Stove)” featured in the SF Chronicle review of West Coast Ink at the Sonoma Museum. Link to the article is here. In addition, Hung is in conversation with Peter Selz at University Press Books in Berkeley, California on 16 April...
by Michael Carroll | Oct 15, 2013 | News, Drew Tal
DREW TAL: WORLDS APART 1. When you were a young boy growing up in Israel, what did you think of becoming when you got older? I was very visual from an early age but I did not know where it was going to take me. It wasn’t until I got to New York City, in my early...
by Tonya Turner Carroll | Aug 23, 2013 | Hung Liu, News
Hung Liu had a great write-up in Visual Art Source this August. The journal VAS gave her solo exhibition at Turner Carroll an Editorial Recommendation in light of the cohesive and deep body of self-portraits she created documenting her years in China and her work in...
by Tonya Turner Carroll | Jun 13, 2013 | Hung Liu, News
The second installment of Hung Liu’s touring solo museum shows opened last week at the San Jose Museum of Art. According to the SJMA “This exhibition showcases surprising new, intimate work by Liu. She contemplates the cycles of life, death, and memory in...
by Tonya Turner Carroll | Apr 26, 2013 | Hung Liu, News
SquareCylinder.com ran a great article on Hung Liu and her solo retrospective at the Oakland Museum of California and its now finished companion exhibition at the Mills College Museum of Art. The article gives us very good information about Hung’s past, and how...
by Michael Carroll | Oct 17, 2012 | Georges Mazilu, News
”I was born in Romania in 1951 and earned my Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the Grigorescu Art Institute in Bucharest. In 1982 I escaped Ceausescu’s dictatorial regime and settled down in France. Some features of my present art as absurdity and grotesque could...