Dream of Dawn by Griffin Liu
Opening reception: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 6 - 9 PM
Exhibitions run May 17 - June 28, 2026
Griffin Liu’s work explores themes of displacement, solitude, and the tension between institutional control and human agency through surreal miniature landscapes. Shaped by his family’s seven-year limbo as asylum seekers, his practice reflects the emotional weight of waiting—for decisions, responses, and permission to move forward. In these works, waiting becomes a condition of powerlessness under bureaucratic systems. Liu transforms that experience into scenes where reality and imagination merge, creating landscapes of poetic melancholy, psychological tension, and dreamlike stillness.
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