Crystal Liu: You’re Invited
Recent San Francisco Art Institute graduate Crystal Liu shows whimsical, slightly ominous drawings from two bodies of work. The first, “My House is Dead; it’s my birthday,” is a series of stylized cakes in various stages of transmutation. Portrayed at a point sometime beyond their purest state, the individual cakes are subject to entropic forces that cause them to sink into decay, or to rearrange their sugary atoms into something else entirely, such as trees, flowers, stars, or everyday objects.
In the second series, titled “My Butter Cream Clouds,” the cake frosting has floated off and turned into clouds. Here a narrative progression emerges and clouds, rain, and stars take on a life of their own. In Liu’s anthropomorphic, metamorphic world, everything is extraordinary and anything is possible.
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Crystal Liu"Let's stick together, 'Like the mountains and the skies'", 2005ink and marker on paper7 x 7 inches
17.78 x 17.78 cms -
Crystal Liu"Let's stick together, 'I'll be in the trees'", 2005ink and marker on paper7 x 7 inches
17.78 x 17.78 cms -
Crystal Liu"Let's stick together, 'Fog'", 2005ink and marker on paper7 x 7 inches
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Crystal Liu"Let's stick together, 'Above the trees and the caves'", 2005ink and marker on paper7 x 7 inches
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Crystal Liu"Let's stick together, 'I'll meet you at the cave'", 2005ink and marker on paper7 x 7 inches
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Crystal Liu"Let's stick together, 'Forever'", 2005ink and marker on paper7 x 7 inches
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Crystal Liu"Let's stick together, 'Fog + Firecrackers' II", 2005ink and marker on paper7 x 7 inches
17.78 x 17.78 cms -
Crystal Liumy house is dead...it's my birthday, 'the night cake', 2005ink and marker on paper10 1/4 x 9 1/2 in
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Crystal Liumy house is dead...it's my birthday, 'baroque cake', 2005ink and marker on paper11 x 10 inches
27.94 x 25.4 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Wilted Flowers Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper10.25 x 9.5 inches
26.035 x 24.13 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Broken Layered Cake", 2005ink and marker on paper10.125 x 9.375 inches
25.7175 x 23.8125 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Sky Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper10.25 x 9.5 inches
26.035 x 24.13 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Porcelain Cake", 2005ink and marker on paper10.5 x 8.5 inches
26.67 x 21.59 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Three Rose Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper9 x 7.625 inches
22.86 x 19.3675 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Broken Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper10.625 x 8.75 inches
26.9875 x 22.225 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Orange Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper11 x 10.25 inches
27.94 x 26.035 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Layered Stars Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper11 x 10 inches
27.94 x 25.4 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Island Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper11 x 10.5 inches
27.94 x 26.67 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Forest Cake", 2005ink and marker on paper9 x 7.5 inches
22.86 x 19.05 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Table and Chairs Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper11 x 6.75 inches
27.94 x 17.145 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Black Forest Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper11 x 9.25 inches
27.94 x 23.495 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "California Sunset Cake", 2005ink and marker on paper9.5 x 10.25 inches
24.13 x 26.035 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Thousand Layer Cake", 2005ink and marker on paper
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Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Pink Rose Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper10 x 7.625 inches
25.4 x 19.3675 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Classic Vanilla Cake", 2005ink and marker on paper8 x 10 inches
20.32 x 25.4 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Strawberry Short Cake", 2005ink and marker on paper7.875 x 10.125 inches
20.0025 x 25.7175 cms -
Crystal Liu"My House is Dead...it's my birthday" (cake drawings) "Lime Cake", 2004ink and marker on paper10 x 7.625 inches
25.4 x 19.3675 cms -
Crystal Liumy buttercream clouds, 'pushing through', 2005ink and marker on paper29 x 23 inches
32 3/ x 26 3/4 inches framed
73.66 x 58.42 cms -
Crystal Liu"My Buttercream Clouds 'on a day so calm' ", 2005ink and marker on paper29 x 23 inches
73.66 x 58.42 cms