GROTTO VARIATIONS
In November, 1985, Liu has her first one-person exhibition at the soon-to-be-demolished Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, where she uses the whole space for a mural-installation based on the ancient grotto caves of Dunhuang, in northwestern China along the famous Silk Road. She used the Buddhist iconography of Dunhuang as a way of claiming, for the first time in her life, an entire gallery space (a modern cave). The exhibition was later destroyed with the gallery.
In November, 1985, Liu has her first one-person exhibition at the soon-to-be-demolished Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, where she uses the whole space for a mural-installation based on the ancient grotto caves of Dunhuang, in northwestern China along the famous Silk Road. She used the Buddhist iconography of Dunhuang as a way of claiming, for the first time in her life, an entire gallery space (a modern cave). The exhibition was later destroyed with the gallery.
