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Tiffanyliu
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[2008-11-20 09:06:26 +0000 UTC]
"Tiffany Liu"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 3; Deviations: 73; Watchers: 380
Watching: 1; Pageviews: 25670; Comments Made: 89; Friends: 1
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Mary BlairFavorite movies: Virgin Suicide, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd, Paris Je Taime, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine
Favorite bands / musical artists: Regina Spektor, Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple
Favorite writers: Jane Austen
Favorite games: Katamari Damacy, Tetris
Favorite gaming platform: Nintendo, Playstation
Tools of the Trade: gouache, acrylic
Other Interests: I love art and design, cooking, traveling, making crafts, Colin Firth
# About me
Born: 1981, Taipei, Taiwan. Education: 2005 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA, BAWritten by: David Rive
A confessed exemplar of the Peter Pan Syndrome, and happily ensconced in a personal “Never-Neverland,” Liu has never lost her childlike spirit. The artist estimates that approximately 50% of her waking existence has been spent in “one big daydream.” Liu’s work reflects the visions and fantasies of her imagination. Her canvas is her playground. A wash in rainbow hues and populated with a veritable circus of cute (and freaky) creatures, her candy-colored acrylic paintings are at once strangely familiar (they reference the visual style of vintage storybooks, board game graphics, and nursery décor), and oddly jarring in their often audacious and mysterious subject matter. Liu’s are booby-trapped images wherein things are seldom as they seem, and there are often disturbing—and disturbingly humorous—complexities lying just below their colorful surfaces.
Tiffany has been teaching art to small children for over 10 years. These youngsters have given her great insight to the narrative themes of her paintings. Her Fine Art and Pop influences include Surrealism, Gothic Art, Folk Art, and vintage Little Golden Books, but she feels her greatest inspiration comes from her students. “A child’s perception of the world is a great thing,” says Liu. “When they draw they interact within their drawings like an organic, growing story. They follow their gut instincts, with a no-holds-barred uninhibited approach to art-making.”She continues, “They sometimes don’t even consider their work ‘art;’ for them, it’s a lot more like playtime. I am fascinated by their development; not only on an aesthetic level, but also on a subconscious psychological level. When they draw it’s this big rainstorm of thoughts, emotions, and ideas. They are my little heroes.”
Liu’s vision of childhood reflects a reality in which things often go awry—but in the most playful and colorful way. If some works hint at sexual awakening tinged with corruption and consumption, others treat themes of a search for love with sweet subtlety, humor and mystery. Liu’s non-stop visual invention and the fecundity of her imagination are staggering. She fills her paintings with visual puns, and even double-puns. The magical, floating, colorful artistic world of Tiffany Liu is one you’ll want to visit again and again.
# Comments
Comments: 117
I try to help unknown artists who deserve more attention! Feel free to join the group, we will show high demanded art only! : >
In love,
Marina
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Hi Miss Tiffany its Alexis from Art school.
I'm going to watch you, I love your art style
Your a great teacher
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Hell-ooo!!! You have a very nice gallery!!!!
Nice talent!!!!!!!
You are an excellent artist!!!!
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your work is awsome!
make an illustraded children book!
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Your work is awesome! Kinda dark and cutie, +devwatch!
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i can't believe you don't have millions of page views. your work is outstanding.
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You have a cutest gallery!
ps:I'm the 6000th visitor!
congrats!!!
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I love your Art! I saw two of your works in a small gallery at Covent Garden and thought they were great! Can't believe to find you here
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Ohh, are you talking about London Miles Gallery? I just recently showed in a group show there 
Thank you!!
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<3 ur works <3 the brightness and abstractness of your works <3<3 look forward to seeing more!! <3
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i came across your art today and i fell in love
beautiful style
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I just spent a very enjoyable hour browsing your gallery and marvelling at the way your mind works! Wonderful, colorful, thoughtful, exciting, sad, inventive pieces in your gallery. You are going to go far, m'dear.
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Thank you so much! You are so kind
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Thanks for your art
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your gallery is really beautiful
It's like looking at dreams^^
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I just faved 12 pieces from your gallery! Twelve!
I apologize if this seems excessive, but I really love your work! The colors, the shapes, the themes, I'm drawn to all of it! I think you're fantastic! 
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Your art is so amazing. While I was going through your gallery I felt like I was in another world
Have you ever read the book "Abarat", the author Clive Barker wrote this amazingly immaginative world and also painted pictures in every chapter. I think you might like it!
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your art is so awesome. i want to fave all of it !!
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your artwork is amazing and diff
i really love your work
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