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St. Agathe is the mom of two small children and a lifestyle influencer with more than 333,000 followers on Instagram, but she’s perhaps best known as the winner of Season 2 of The Circle, Netflix’s hyper-addictive reality series about a group of contestants in a social media network called The Circle. (The Circle does not exist outside of the confines of the show itself.) Contestants periodically rank each other...
- 6/10/2022
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Hollywood actress Lucy Liu spent years showcasing her art under a pseudonym because she was scared her onscreen reputation would "taint" her side project.
The star is a keen experimental artist and has been exhibiting her work since 1993 under the name Yu Ling, but she has now gone public with a display in London under her real name.
Liu admits she kept her work secret for such a long time because she didn't want art fans to be influenced by her acting roles, which have included feisty Ling Woo in TV show Ally McBeal and a deadly assassin in the Kill Bill movies.
She tells Britain's Es Magazine, "I thought I would let people see the art without knowing I was the same person who they saw chopping people's heads off. Because that can taint a person, you know? I thought it was time to take the bulletproof vest off.
"I always thought, 'If people think I'm a b**ch, that's fine for Ally McBeal or for chopping people's heads off or whatever'. It's easy to let people believe you are what you represent. But it's harder to show people who you really are.
"At first I was afraid of allowing people in who are not close friends and family. But then I realised people are always making judgements about what I'm wearing or who I'm with, so why not allow them to see something that's a real part of me? It's a really big ripping-the-Band-Aid-off moment for me."
Liu's Seventy Two exhibition will run at London's Salon Vert gallery until 22 October.
The star is a keen experimental artist and has been exhibiting her work since 1993 under the name Yu Ling, but she has now gone public with a display in London under her real name.
Liu admits she kept her work secret for such a long time because she didn't want art fans to be influenced by her acting roles, which have included feisty Ling Woo in TV show Ally McBeal and a deadly assassin in the Kill Bill movies.
She tells Britain's Es Magazine, "I thought I would let people see the art without knowing I was the same person who they saw chopping people's heads off. Because that can taint a person, you know? I thought it was time to take the bulletproof vest off.
"I always thought, 'If people think I'm a b**ch, that's fine for Ally McBeal or for chopping people's heads off or whatever'. It's easy to let people believe you are what you represent. But it's harder to show people who you really are.
"At first I was afraid of allowing people in who are not close friends and family. But then I realised people are always making judgements about what I'm wearing or who I'm with, so why not allow them to see something that's a real part of me? It's a really big ripping-the-Band-Aid-off moment for me."
Liu's Seventy Two exhibition will run at London's Salon Vert gallery until 22 October.
- 9/29/2011
- WENN
Alexa here. Apart from her role in the late series "Dirty Sexy Money," we haven't seen much of Lucy Liu in a while. Then, earlier this month, a painting signed with the name "Yu Ling" was included in the Bloomsbury Auctions 20th Century Art and Editions sale. According to its description the painting, titled "Forever Goodbye," was also signed with the name Lucy Liu. At an estimated value of $25,000 – $30,000, it remains unsold.
Yes, Yu Ling is actress Lucy Liu's alter ego, a painter, photographer and mixed media artist. She's slipped her work into the 2009 Armory Show as Yu Ling so that it would be judged on artistic merit (and maybe so that it be viewed as the work of an undiscovered Chinese artist). But she's also sold her work under her given name to garner attention and support Unicef with the proceeds.
Lucy has said her pieces are inspired by China,...
Yes, Yu Ling is actress Lucy Liu's alter ego, a painter, photographer and mixed media artist. She's slipped her work into the 2009 Armory Show as Yu Ling so that it would be judged on artistic merit (and maybe so that it be viewed as the work of an undiscovered Chinese artist). But she's also sold her work under her given name to garner attention and support Unicef with the proceeds.
Lucy has said her pieces are inspired by China,...
- 6/29/2010
- by Alexa
- FilmExperience
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