Lucy Liu paints erotic art?

LUCY LIU PAINTS EROTIC ART?

"Lucy Liu being a painter
and making lesbian art
is keeping me up at night"

Lucy Liu / Shunga

Vienna Vernosa
November 6, 2019




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Lucy Liu


Yes, you read that right. In the latest of viral celebrity moments, 
it was uncovered by Twitter that actor Lucy Liu is also a visual 
artist who paints depictions of lesbian art, among other things. 
“Lucy Liu being a painter and making erotic art is keeping me 
up at night” wrote a Twitter user



But that isn’t all she works in. In fact, Liu’s interest in art 
began around 15 years-old and she has since dabbled 
in various mediums including ink drawings, silkscreens, 
paintings and collages. “Because we were an immigrant family 
and I am first-generation, I always had this imbalance of belonging,” 
Liu told Artsy in an interview. “I think at first it was the language barrier, 
not speaking English, but then it started becoming about how I look. 
I think that art helps evaluate some of the psychology of yourself 
as a child, and to illuminate some things you may never have understood.” 
We hold Liu’s characters close to our hearts, with iconic roles in 
Charlie’s Angles, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, and Elementary. Yet her talent 
has strangely gone unspoken about as her work has been 
shown publicly and privately since 1993.

In January, Liu had her first museum exhibition titled 
‘Unhomed Belongings’ at the National Museum of Singapore. 
The exhibition examined racial identity as a first generation American. 
Though it’s rare and quite costly to get your hands on one 
of her pieces (we want 12 of them), Liu’s work is presently 
breaking the internet bridging her notoriety beyond award-winning 
actress and director, to acclaimed artist.

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