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BEILI LIU AND ARAM HAN SIFUENTES
March 12, 2020
6 – 8 PM
Doors open at 5:45 PM
Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas
Dallas Arts District Location
2010 Flora Street
Dallas, Texas 7520
6:00 – 6:30 PM
Beili Liu In-Gallery Performance for Each and Every/Dallas
On the occasion of the launch of the Museum’s Texas Asian Women Artist series and inaugural opening exhibition Beili Liu: One And Another, and in conjunction with her installation Each and Every/Dallas,
Austin-based visual artist Beili Liu incorporates a performance in
which she sits in protest alongside the installation in silent
meditation, mending worn articles of brightly-colored clothing, and
using the repetitive act of mending cloth to explore cultural ideas of
feminine labor, healing and hope. As an artist, mother and immigrant,
the installation and corresponding performance piece was conceptualized
in response to the migrant children crisis and the separation of migrant
children from their parents at the southern border of the United
States.
7 PM
Artist Conversation with Beili Liu and Aram Han Sifuentes
On the occasion of the launch of the Museum’s Texas Asian Women Artist series and inaugural opening exhibition Beili Liu: One And Another,
Austin-based visual artist Beili Liu and Chicago-based fiber and
performance artist Aram Han Sifuentes will both speak and provide unique
insight into their work, influences, and practices. Moderated by
Janeil Engelstad, Founding Director of Make Art with Purpose (MAP), this
conversation is part of the festival MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The
More We Gain, which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution with art and public
programs throughout Dallas and Fort Worth, including at the Crow Museum
of Asian Art. This conversation will explore how the artists address the
themes of migration, immigration, motherhood and identity in their work
and invite participation from the audience.
About the Artists:
Beili Liu is a visual artist who creates material and
process-driven, site-responsive installations. Working with commonplace
materials and elements such as thread, scissors, paper, stone, fire, and
water, Liu manipulates their intrinsic qualities to extrapolate complex
cultural narratives. Liu’s work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe, and
across the United States. She has held solo exhibitions at venues such
as the Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norwegian National Art and Culture Center;
Hua Gallery, London, UK; and the Chinese Culture Foundation in San
Francisco. Liu has been awarded the 2016 Joan Mitchell Painters and
Sculptors Grant, and named the 2018 Texas State Artist in 3D medium by
the Texas State Legislature and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Liu’s
work has received support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant (Women and Their Work, 2013)
and the National Endowment for the Arts (Museum of Southeast Texas,
2014).
Born in Jilin, China, Liu now lives and works in Austin, Texas. She
received her MFA from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is
currently a Professor of Art at The University of Texas at Austin.
Aram Han Sifuentes is a fiber and performance artist
who works to claim spaces for immigrant and disenfranchised communities.
Her work often revolves around skill sharing, specifically sewing
techniques, to create multiethnic and intergenerational sewing circles,
which become a place for empowerment, subversion and protest. Solo
exhibitions of her work have been exhibited at Jane Addams Hull-House
Museum (Chicago, IL), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Chicago
Cultural Center (Chicago, IL), Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA),
Table Art Center (Charleston, IL), University Galleries at Illinois
State University (Normal, IL), and Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis,
MO). Her solo exhibition, Talking Back To Power, will be on exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA) October 2020 to March 2021.
Aram is a 2016 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, 2016 3Arts Awardee,
and 2017 Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee. Her project Protest Banner
Lending Library was a finalist for the Beazley Design Awards at the
Design Museum (London, UK) in 2016. She earned her BA in Art and Latin
American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and her
MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
