About The Artist:
Xiu-ping Liao
Xiu-ping Liao (also spelled Shiou-Ping Liao or 廖修平) was born in Taiwan and studied at the University of Taiwan before moving on for further training in the graphic arts, to Tokyo and Paris, where he came under the influence of major British printmaker Stanley Hayter in the late 1960's. In 1970 the artist was in New York, before heading back to Taiwan in the early 70's, becoming a visiting professor at National Taiwan Normal University....
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.