jen
liu
jen liu is an american visual artist born in 1976. she works with video, performance, and painting and creates pieces about labor, economy and national identity. she was awarded a guggenheim and a creative capital award. liu received a ba from oberlin college, and an …
A portrait built from jen liu's own colours
Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.