BrainTree and the Theory of Everything

Sat, May 13
5 -7 PM
free

An exhibition in the Front Gallery
Featuring the work of Anli Liu
Exhibition runs: May 13, 2006 - May 20, 2006
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 3-6 PM

BrainTree and the Theory of Everything is Anli Liu's visual
reflection on the myriad of images, information, and experiences that
she has accumulated through her study of neurology. Here she
appropriates the visual imagery of modern medicine-including
biochemical maps, diagrams, and flowcharts-to create a series of
landscape drawings and installations. Incorporating patient detail
and working with the handicrafts of drawing and stitching, she
subverts the detached and reductionist nature of scientific knowledge
and transforms its symbol systems into a kind of personal landscape.
Stylistically, Braintree hovers somewhere between the internal and
external, masculine and feminine, reductionist and metaphysical,
scientific and personal.

Anli Liu is a visual artist and medical student living in San
Francisco. Since her first high school science class, Liu has been
fascinated by the patterns, systems, and processes of biological
life. She also finds herself attracted to the boundary between the
natural and the supernatural. She has previously exhibited at Build,
Arspace, 66 Balmy, Mimi Barr, Genart's Emerge, the World Council for
Arts and Culture Second Biennial International Juried Exhibition, and
Linda Fairchild. Liu is an alumna of Stanford University, UC
Berkeley, Pratt Institute of Fine Arts, and will earn her MD from the
University of California, San Francisco in May 2006.

Venue:

The Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco
415.864.8855

Additional Info:

415.864.8855
www.thelab.org