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Cathy Lu Visiting Artist Lecture

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023

artist Cathy Lu wearing a glossy green facial mask sitting on a blue blanket amid her sculptures of eyes, fruit, basins, and incense.Wednesday, April 5
5:30-6:30pm
Free and open to the public. Register at the links below to join this lecture in-person or via Zoom.

Cathy Lu (she/they) is a ceramic artist working in sculpture and installation to explore Asian-American identity, and how issues of immigration, cultural hybridity, and assimilation become part of American identity. She has participated in artist in residence programs at Recology SF, Archie Bray, and Bemis Center. Her work was recently exhibited at Chinese Culture Center SF, / Slash Art Gallery SF, and Galerie Du Monde in Hong Kong. Lu was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/ Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow and a 2022 SFMOMA Seca Award winner.  She currently teaches ceramics at SMFA at Tufts University, and lives between Richmond, CA and Boston, MA. 

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sculpture by Cathy Lu of a large round object stuck with many smoldering sticks of incense; A room-size installation of many sculptures of eyes mounted on brilliant blue walls, with basins and buckets arranged on the floor and on stools
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