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Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
BQMB
September 9 - October 30, 2010

The Julie Saul Gallery announces its second exhibition of Jeff Liao's work entitled BQMB (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Bronx). The show features works from Liao's
Habitat 7, Depth of Fields, and Intersections: Grand Concourse series, as well as new work from Coney Island. With his large-scale, panoramic format, Liao casts the city of New York as a dynamic character in each piece, highlighting the diverse cultures and urban landscapes in the city's distinct neighborhoods.

Liao's Habitat 7 series won the first ever New York Times Magazine "Capture the Times" photography contest in 2005. In this project, Liao shot with a large format camera to create large-scale, color panoramic images of the ethnic communities that have grown around the IRT 7 train in Queens, New York. Using multiple exposures created in the same location and taken over the course of several hours, Liao constructed a compelling project that transcends the limits of documentary photography. This series reveals Liao's intensely personal journey through the borough of Queens, evident in the idiosyncratic range of observations throughout his photographs. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles featured works from this series in its Urban Panoramas exhibition from January- June, 2010.

In his next project, Liao expresses his deep-seated love for the New York Mets in Depth of Fields, recording the evolution of an ordinary parking lot in Queens into Citi Field, the baseball team's new home. Liao explores similar urban themes in his works from Intersections: Grand Concourse, a series commissioned by the Bronx Museum of the Arts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the famous boulevard.

Liao's work is represented in many public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York City, and the George Eastman House in Rochester. Liao completed his undergraduate degree at Pratt and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

links to press:
Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2010
The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, September 13, 2010
http://dlkcollection.blogspot.com

JEFF CHIEN-HSING LIAO
BQMB
SEPTEMBER 9 - OCTOBER 30, 2010

Entrance:

161st Yankees stadium station, 2008
pigment ink print
face mounted on plexi
39 3/4 x 63 3/4”
edition 1/8


Birds Eye View, Hunter's Point, 2005
pigment ink print
40 x 30”
49 1/2 x 41” framed
edition of 2/6


Birds Eye View, Long Island City, 2005
pigment ink print
40 x 30”
49 1/2 x 41” framed
edition of 3/6

Main Gallery
East wall:

42nd Street, Times Square, 2005
pigment ink print
face mounted with luster laminate
40 x 96”
41 x 97 1/4" framed
edition 4/6

North wall:

Cyclone, 2010
pigment ink print
mounted on sintra
30 x 72”
37 x 79” framed
edition 2/8


Last Game at Shea, 2008
pigment ink print
mounted on sintra
30 x 72”
37 x 79” framed
edition 1/8


25 Cents, 2010
pigment ink print
mounted on sintra
20 x 48”
24 3/4 x 52 3/4” framed
edition 1/12

West wall:

Yankee Stadiums, 2008
pigment ink print
mounted on sintra
60 x 96”
68 1/4 x 104 1/2” framed
edition 2/4

South wall:

Luna Park, 2010
pigment ink print
mounted on sintra
30 x 72”
37 x 79” framed
edition 1/8


The Fans, 2007
pigment ink print
mounted on sintra
30 x 72”
37 x 79” framed
edition 4/8

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