Katherine chang liu biography of donald

Affectionately called the “Art Whisperer,”.

  • Affectionately called the “Art Whisperer,”.
  • As an artist, Katherine Chang Liu is an anomaly.
  • Katherine Chang Liu has been teaching for more than three decades, and she still derives pleasure from helping her students develop their own art language.
  • Katherine Chang Liu, combines abstractions with collaged elements to produce strong personal narratives and wonderful painterly works.
  • Liu, an accomplished, award-winning concert pianist, knows all about embracing flexibility.

    • Katherine Chang Liu has been teaching for more than three decades, and she still derives pleasure from helping her students develop their own art language.!

    C. L. Wysuph

    Catalogue Essay

    J J Brookings Gallery, San Francisco

    1997

     

    Katherine Chang Liu

     

    As an artist, Katherine Chang Liu is an anomaly.

    Her graduate degree in science did not prepare her to become the artist she is. Yet some fortuitous confluence of art, science and socio-cultural maturation - the threads from which the fabric of her art are woven, the stuff of life which, though informed by reason, is by definition unreasoned - form the corpus of Liu's iconography.

    That is not to say that her art springs from some ethereal void.

    Katherine Chang Liu, an internationally renowned painter and teacher.

    She has studied art formally and informally all of her life, leading to grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission of Arts and Humanities, to name only two of her long list of achievements. In addition, she has been a museum co-curator, lecturer and teacher of considerable international influence.

     

    Katherine grew up in Taiwan in a more or less traditional Chinese family.

    But in