Interview Lucy Liu doing art | Art And Celebrities

Interview Lucy Liu doing art | Art And Celebrities

[Music] how do you start making art sort of work with collage and um experiment with that um and you know you don’t think of it as art really at the time but reality is that’s actually what it is it’s a form of expression so that’s what that’s what I started out doing and then photography and then from photography doing more collage and then starting doing more and more mixed media and then feeling like you know what I I need to express myself more in a different way so I I started to attend um the New York Studio school and then started experimenting with drawing and art with painting and um then later on sculpture is there anything in particular that inspires your art I think what I’ve been really focusing on more so is my personal backstory and the history that I’ve had um with my family that’s more of the current works that I have right now really based on family how is Lucy the actor different from Lucy Lou the artist is there any difference there is no difference yeah it’s the same yeah I mean I think as an actor you are working with a team of people and when you’re an artist you’re in your own space on your own working so that’s that’s the difference only in in terms of the amount of people that are with you but the reality is the expression is still the same it’s it’s a separate life you know to be an artist than to be an actor in some ways because you have to go and sort of put yourself in confined space and work um and I think that is not an easy thing to do all the time and I I’m so used to being around people now that uh it could be quite lonely is there any artists dead or alive that if you could meet um you would really love to meet oh yeah absolutely I mean there’s I would would have loved to have met duning um and there is so many I would have loved to have met Louise bah [Music] all right so let’s talk about this exhibition then um how did the idea come about for UNH home belongings UNH home belongings came through my friend Dan Chan who is friends and has known Ryan and Adrien through the Ryan foundation and he talked about this foundation and how they are about exposing different cultures and arts to um young people and to kids and that to me really resonated and then they went we kind of went from there and then they met shigi or they discussed shigi being the counterpart and it all worked out perfectly if say a fire you know broke out now and you could only save one piece of work what is which would it be my god um I would probably save the family portrait why um because it’s I I have a series of works that size that I um that that’s my newest series and all of them have been painted over so there’s underneath the paintings there’s family pictures um and that one wasn’t painted over and and it has a special place in my heart uh and my father passed away last October so I I painted that before he did and so it has a special resonance a way of remembering him in um a way of remembering my childhood in a very positive way right is a big name artistic her artistic ambition is equ as big as her name and when I went to her Studio I was very pleasantly surprised by The Works that she was creating and had created and if you look at the works in the show with her very aggressive brush Strokes with her Relentless knitting you will see that she’s a very intense person who puts a lot of her heart and soul into her work so you do have a habit of picking things up and that’s where a lot of your material comes from could you tell us a bit about that yes I mean I think for me I find objects everywhere that I am and I I pick them up and I collect them and I find that you know the idea of Lost and Found in fact is about finding a home for them because at some point they did have a meaning and they had a significance they had a use and so the fact that they have been discarded and and uh uncared for really it kind of hurts my feelings so finding a place for them here it it makes me feel like you know they were not brought here for not [Music] I’ve been here for about 24 hours okay yeah and it’s been everyone’s been so kind and it’s been the weather’s beautiful what did you expect and has anything surprised you so far well I don’t know I I I really think that the museum is absolutely gorgeous I heard about it and obviously seen photos and they gave me the layout but seeing everything together and how it came together and how it’s lit I’m I’m so pleased and what are you looking forward to do most in Singapore I would like to taste the food a little bit more I’m definitely going to go sightseeing I’d like to go to the zoo and the nocturnal Zoo I’m very excited about that I love animals you go on a cart and they go and it’s open and you know the animals are exposed to you and that’s exciting to me what do you hope for people to take away from this um I hope that people feel some sort of personal connection to any of the works between the two of us um whether we’re here or not I I think that when you connect to a film or a character or art it really it heightens your level of of being a human being it gives you accessibility to something and it makes you feel like you’re not alone right and I want people to feel like they belong somewhere in the world um and they’re not by [Music] themselves thanks for watching this video give us a like click here to subscribe to stir click here for more videos and and click on the little bell so you don’t miss any of our content

Lucy Liu is also an artist. She began doing collage mixed media when she was 16 years old, and became a photographer and painter. Liu attended the New York Studio School for drawing, painting, and sculpture from 2004 to 2006.
Lucy recently completed a season starring on the critically acclaimed TNT original series, “Southland.” Lucy first gained prominence for playing the unforgettable Ling Woo on the hit Fox series, “Ally McBeal,” and has appeared in the hit Hollywood films “Charlie’s Angels,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” “Chicago” …