Studio Art Professor Beili Liu is featured in a group exhibition at Texas Tech School of Art in Lubbock, Texas titled FEMINUM. Curated by Loren Schwerd, associate professor of art at Louisiana State University, FEMINUM features sculptures by ten women artists (with one male collaborator) from Texas and Oklahoma, whose work explores intimate and equivocal negotiations of oppression and sovereignty. The exhibition will be on view from January 27 - March 4, 2018.
Artists in FEMINUM include Crystal Campbell, Erin Cunningham (MFA in Studio Art, 2007), Alicia Eggert & Joshua Williams, Rachel Hayes, Shana Hoehn, Kathryn Kelley, Liss LaFluer, Jennifer Ling Datchuck, Beili Liu, and Alyssa Taylor Wendt.
Additionally, in March 2018 Liu will present research on her practice at MAKE 2018: Making in Art and Architecture symposium hosted by CIT Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland. The 2018 symposium will focus on making in the interplay between art and architecture. The symposium features talks from Juhani Pallasmaa (Finland), architectural theorist and author; Mark Garry (Ireland), artist and fulltime lecturer at Dublin School of Creative Arts at DIT; Torsten Blume (Germany), Bauhaus Dessau researcher and curator; and Isabel English (Ireland), Irish visual artist.
Beili Liu will present the research and conceptual development underpinning a series of her acclaimed large installation projects, such as House Phase Series and Red Thread Legend Series, which use a wide repertoire of symbolic objects and materials. Issues of site, culture, and history influence these works that are often also site-specific and sensitive to time and the environment.