Hollywood's Lucy Liu Takes Her Artwork in London

THE GUARDIAN
By Steve Ross

"Seventy Two" (2009) by Lucy Liu. Photograph: Martin Godwin

UNITED KINGDOM -  'I have been known to dumpster-dive," says Lucy Liu. "If I see something really fascinating and warped or distorted, like a piece of metal, I'll jump over and grab it and create something from it." Liu has always been an artist, she explains. Even while she was shooting movies, she would be drawing or sewing in her trailer. There's no evidence of dumpster-diving at Salon Vert. Downstairs is the piece that gives the exhibition its name: Seventy Two, a grid of 72 small paintings, mostly black ink on white paper, quickly executed. The inspiration was the 72 Names of God, a Jewish mystical concept derived from the Book of Exodus. [link]