Between Wind and Water - Beili Liu solo exhibition featuring site-specific installations + process drawings at Vessel Gallery

JANUARY 3-5, 11-6PM - Invitation to view the artist's process. Press are invited to film, interview, and document Beili Liu and her installation.
Exhibition: JANUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Opening Reception: JANUARY 6, 6-9PM

Vessel Gallery Artist Talk Series: JANUARY 7, 2-4PM
Beili Liu speaks about her work as a multidisciplinary artist, and on her process of creating this work at Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA Beili Liu describes her process in making and planning for site specific installation work and elaborates on her new wind drawings.

EXHIBITING January 6 - February 18, 2012
OPENING Reception Friday, January 6, 2012, 6-9PM

INTERVIEW and VIDEO TAPE Beili Liu: January 3, 4, 5, 11-6PM Meet the artist. We will allow documentation of the installation process and provide an opportunity to interview Beili. Please call 510 893 8800 or email info@vessel-gallery.com with the time and date you plan to join us.

Beili Liu's time and process based installations mine themes of cultural specificity and overlaps, transient or persistent energy, and conflicting and confluent forces. Thread, paper, incense, wood, salt, water, these simple materials and compounds are the vehicles by which Beili Liu hand crafts microcosms of fragility and poignancy. By working on these everyday materials, Liu manipulates their intrinsic and bare qualities to extrapolate much more complex cultural narratives. Art in America Review has commended her works for being “materially simple but metaphorically rich” (Janet Koplos, April 2009).

Beili Liu is a multidisciplinary artist whose artwork has been exhibited and published extensively both nationally and internationally. She has held solo exhibitions at venues such as the Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norwegian National Art and Culture Center, Galerie An Der Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany, Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai, Asia Unlimited Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Nordisk Kunst Plattform, Brusand, Norway, Hua Gallery, London, and the Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco. Liu has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, the Austin Museum of Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Finland and the Kaunas Biennale—a survey of international cotemporary fiber art, hosted by the National Art Museum in Lithuania.

Liu’s work has received critical reviews in Art in America, Sacchi Review, UK, Helsinki Sanomat News, Finland, Stavanger News, Norway, China Daily, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Ceramic Art And Perception (Technical), Australia, San Francisco Chronicle, Art Slant Los Angeles, Buffalo News, and Detroit Metro times, among many others.
Liu has received awards and prizes including artist fellowships at Art Farm, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Fiskars Onoma Foundation Artist Residency, Finland, and Fundación Valparaíso, Spain. Her solo exhibition In Between was named one of the “Top Ten Exhibitions in Shanghai” in 2009 by Sacchi Review, UK. She received the San Francisco Major’s Award for her contribution to cultural exchange in 2008. Most recently, Liu received a Distingction award at the Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania.