1st solo show: Experimental Relationship
March 28th, 2008
Yes! I can’t believe it’s next Friday. Thanks to Britt Jenkins (a student from Rhodes College’s gallery management class), I’m lucky enough to have my first solo show in Adam Shaw Studio, a very lovely space. Here’s the press release:
Adam Shaw Studio and Britt Jenkins are excited to announce a solo photography exhibition:
Pixy Liao: Experimental Relationship
Experimental Relationship will run from Friday April 4th until Wednesday April 9th
The reception for the show will be held in the gallery (2547 Broad Avenue) from 6 - 9 p.m., Friday April 4, 2008.
A performance will take place in the gallery from 7 – 7:30 p.m.
Experimental Relationship will feature seven recent photographs from the talented young photographer, Pixy Liao. Hand processed color photographs radiate seductive colors that add to the intimate nature of the work’s content. These sensual color photographs show the artist’s investigation into the facets of relationships, but not necessarily her own. Consequently, a dynamic tension is achieved because of the work’s performance aspect. A summation of the work is best expressed from the following excerpt taken from her project’s description, “This project is more like an experiment to me, not a real document of my relationship. It may even have nothing to do with me or my boyfriend. It’s more like me throwing out questions and ideas about relationships. I have always doubted the routines of human beings. Why should a couple be a man and a woman? Why does man have to be a certain way? Why should woman be a certain way? I feel relationships are for more complicated and always changing, and it has lots of possibilities.”
Yijun Liao (Pixy) was born in Shanghai in 1979. She graduated from Shanghai International Studies University in 2002. After graduation she worked as a freelance graphic designer for three years before moving to the United States to study photography. She is currently a third year graduate student at the University of Memphis and will receive her MFA in December of 2008. She has participated in several group shows, including the Lantana Project’s class of 2006 and 2007 group exhibitions and in the Project’s 2007 Emerging Artists Series. Her work has been shown in the 2007 and 2008 Annual Juried Student Exhibition at the University of Memphis and in the “This and That”, exhibition at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Her work has also been featured in the Chinese publications of Computer Arts and After 17 web magazine.
Adam Shaw Studio is free and open to the public and is located on 2547 Broad Avenue. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The gallery is closed on Saturday and Sunday. If you should have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Britt Jenkins via email at jenbl@rhodes.edu.
This exhibition is sponsored in part by the Center for Outreach and Development of the Arts at Rhodes College.
Jpg information: “PixyLiao_pr.jpg” is “How Long Can We Kiss?” from Experimental Relationship 2008, Image courtesy the artist.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
congratulations~ !!!
March 29th, 2008 at 12:09 am
祝贺
March 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
congratulations!
March 29th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
ah! how i wish i could be there!
March 31st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
要送花藍嗎？
April 6th, 2008 at 12:40 am
The show looked great Pixy!