The work of artist Li Huai will be the focus of the next Modern China Lecture Series at Cal State San Bernardino.
“What Do You Think? A Conversation with Visual Artist Li Huai” will take place Thursday, May 25, at 2 p.m. in the university’s John M. Pfau Library, room PL-4005. The program is free and open to the public. Parking at CSUSB is $6.
“As an artist and educator, critical thinking has always been a vital element in my work,” Li said. “By presenting and responding to questions in my evolving work, organic communications are formed, exchanged, and developed, and the relationships between spectators and my creations become meaningful and playful experiences.”
Li received her bachelor’s in fine arts at the Beijing Film Academy and her master in fine arts at the California Institute of the Arts. She is on the faculty of the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.
Her specialties include installation, painting, drawing, multi-media, and Chinese calligraphy. In thematic terms, her work deals with various issues related to East-West cultural interaction in an increasingly transnational age, including issues involving the Asian diaspora. Her major one person shows include Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego Chinese Historical Museum; The Arts House (Singapore); The Substation Gallery (Singapore); Carroll Gallery - Tulane University; City U Gallery - Hong Kong City University; Matthew Architecture Gallery - University of Edinburgh (UK); Galleria Ninapi (Ravena, Italy); Primo Piano Gallery (Rimini, Italy); and Forum Gallery - Ecole normal superieure de Lyon (France)
The Modern China Lecture Series was initiated to promote awareness of important issues related to China for those on the CSUSB campus and in the community. In the series of more than 30 lectures, workshops, film screenings, and roundtable forums since January 2014, China scholars from UC San Diego, UC Riverside, the Claremont Colleges, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine and other institutions have visited the CSUSB campus to share their expertise and opinions.
Speakers in the series have included specialists in history, economics, political science, philosophy, finance, security studies, literature, anthropology and other fields.
The Modern China Lecture Series is sponsored by the CSUSB Department of History, the History Club/Phi Alpha Theta, the College of Arts and Letters, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the College of Extended Learning, the Center for Global Management/Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration, the John M. Pfau Library and the Intellectual Life Fund. Special thanks to History Department coordinator, Pam Crosson, as well as Kamerin Bateman (Pfau Library) and Alan Llavore (Strategic Communications).
For more information on the May 25 event or the Modern China Lecture Series, contact Jeremy Murray, assistant professor of history, at (909) 537-5540 or jmurray@csusb.edu.