2005
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
Lives and works in San Francisco

Crystal Liu's drawings of flowers, roots, trees and houses symbolise different facets of our psyche, evoking perilous seduction and danger. Liu's out of love , 2006 and from dead wood , 2007 series are fragments of the ongoing narratives of love, pain, and latent violence.

In Liu's photographs, meditations on her domestic surroundings become metaphors for her emotion. Ordinary objects are arranged and framed to create extraordinary scenes.

As in her collage works, Liu’s wool drawing series, 'prelude to where the animal lives', 2007 presents images of nature in the domestic craft of embroidery. However, it goes beyond painting a pretty picture, laying bare the very real threat that looms.

Liu has exhibited in San Francisco, New York and Toronto. Her work is in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.