Artist Biography
Danny Liu is a full-fledged artist, who is also an Emeritus Professor of Arizona State University; the founder and the former president of ZONA Technology; A Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; two-time Ronald Reagan Gold medalists; and a member of President Bush’s small business advisory council.
He earned his BSME from National Taiwan university, his MSAE from Georgia Institute of Technology, and his PhD form University of Southampton, UK. Danny Liu spent 10 years of his youth in Taipei (since 1950). Loving the arts, in the late 50’s, then violinist Li Tai-Hsiang invited Danny and other two NTU string players to form the Little String Quartet – the first such quartet in Taipei. It was in his college days in the 1960s that he started his painting career, when he showed his work in a group exhibition with several outstanding student painters in the art department of National Taiwan Normal University.
He has three distinctive periods in his painting career: his college days (1960s); California and Arizona (1980s-2000s); and Danshui,Taiwan (2011-). In 2013 he held two painting exhibitions in the Arizona State Capitol Museum and in the Phoenix City Hall under the auspices of the Taipei-Phoenix sister-city program. In 2014，he was invited by the Capital Art Center of Taipei to exhibit his paintings with those of his late father Liu Tien-call. Akin to Tonalism, his recent landscapes are usually in darker hues, contrasted by luminous light and shadow, making evocative atmospheric effects, with brush strokes sweeping over the open sky of Arizona and the misty mountain air of Taiwan.
He has been a resident of Tempe and Scottsdale, Arizona since 1982. In 2010, he joined the working artist studio in East Thomas Plaza of Scottsdale. In 2011, he returned to Taipei, and established the Mt Airoset Red Forest Studio in Danshui.
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