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As a new year approaches and many hope for better times ahead, west coast painter Hung Liu<\/a> marks time in a personal and captivating way in two new paintings at Nancy Hoffman Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0 Every twelve years, at the start of the Chinese zodiac and in the Year of the Rat in which she was born, the artist creates a self-portrait paired with an important symbolic animal or object.\u00a0 In 2020, the most recent year of the rat, the artist marks her 72nd<\/sup> year with an image of herself draped in and masked by the US flag, a contrast to the red scarf she wears in her 1972 portrait as she lived through China\u2019s Cultural Revolution.\u00a0 To the right, she repeats a five-stroke Chinese character to recall the prisoner\u2019s act of marking time in strokes on the wall.\u00a0 (On view through Jan 2nd<\/sup> in Chelsea.\u00a0 Masks and social distancing are required.)<\/p>\n

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Hung Liu, Ray Year I: Counting Down, oil on linen, mixed media on wood, 64 x 100 inches, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a new year approaches and many hope for better times ahead, west coast painter Hung Liu marks time in a personal and captivating way in two new paintings at Nancy Hoffman Gallery.\u00a0 Every twelve years, at the start of the Chinese zodiac and in the Year of the Rat in which she was born, … <\/p>\n

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