Story Painters


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  • Story Painters: Drawings, Paintings, Prints and Tapestries by Squeak Carnwath and Hung Liu at the Lesher Center for the Arts

February 16 - April 11, 2010

Story Painters provides people in the Bay area an opportunity to view a unique survey of three extraordinary artists living in the Bay Area. Squeak Carnwath, Hung Liu, and Inez Storer are exceedingly accomplished, known nation-wide, and have been profiled in major museum exhibitions. Utilizing the figure, personal symbols, and abstract elements, these artists employ a distinctive and highly individual approach to art making, with the fundamentals of story telling at the core of their work.

Squeak Carnwath combines personal symbolism with universal imagery to create a remarkable and salient world of stories and riddles on the surface of a canvas. When combined, her pictorial icons create a conversation—both visual and verbal.


Hung Liu utilizes story in her artwork to document the Chinese revolution. Liu is a storyteller whose art reflects the turmoil of her life that in turn paralleled the birth and evolution of Chinese communism.

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