‘Excavating Hung Liu’s Archive: The Refusal of Historical Erasure’ by Dorothy Moss ’95

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Join us for this 'Excavating the Image' lecture with Dorothy Moss ’95, founding director of the the Hung Liu Estate. For over ten years Dorothy Moss was a curator of painting and sculpture at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. 

Artist Hung Liu (1948–2021) was born in China and emigrated to the United States in 1984. She actively engaged her complex history and journey in her artistic practices, creating paintings and artworks that operate like archaeological sites. This talk reveals how Hung Liu juxtaposed ancient literary sources imagery from Buddhism, Chinese mythology, European literature, modern Chinese political history, acupuncture charts, and children’s books with new forms and materials. As an artist whose work was rooted in archival inquiry, Liu remembered, honored, and criticized her homeland while challenging and expanding the notion of a painter.

Sponsored by the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute and the Smith College Museum of Arts as part of the short-term project, “Excavating the Image: Dispersed Connections.”