Studios INC presents “Mind the Gap”, a solo exhibition by Kathy Liao. The exhibition is a culmination of her 5‑year residency at Studios INC.
Through her work, Liao engages in rituals to keep memories alive. As a Taiwanese American artist, she looks for patterns and repetitions woven through the immigrant family experience in her mixed media work. As families separate and migrate, she recognizes the invariable loss and the struggle to justify and
reconcile the distance (gap) in between.
In our collective psyche and especially through the recent pandemic, we rely more on virtual means to stay in touch with distant loved ones, the wall of the digital screen blinds us to those close by and makes us lose touch with reality. This translates into Liao’s work as she touches, wipes, rubs, peels, and caresses her surfaces — giving the figures skin and weight. With each piece she is constantly re-establishing her relationship to family, being conscientious of her distance from them physically and emotionally. Her recent paintings, sculptural works, and wall drawing installations document the fluid state between experience, memory, and place. Like well-worn film negatives, she revisits images, snapshots, and memories through iterations, until they begin to morph, overlap, and degrade. The result may be an invitation to enter into an overwhelming yet familiar space, or only a flat wall with traces of history left visible.
For more information about the artist, please visit http://www.kathyliao.com/
Exhibition hours: Wednesday through Friday from 10 – 4 pm and Saturday from 12 – 4 pm
