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Liu Kincheloe (b. 1985 in Torrance, CA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Liu received an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute (2012), a BFA Studio Art (2009) and a Psychology BA (2009) from The University of Texas at Austin. They were a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013 and 2021), and a Pratt Forward resident (2024). Represented by Turley Gallery until its closure in 2026, with a two person show (2023), a solo show (2025), with work presentations in Upstate Art Weekend (2024),  Future Fair (2024), and the Dallas Art Fair (2025).

My paintings explore chirality within recursive forms, depicting mirrored patterns that emphasize the asymmetry of handedness and resist perfect overlap. Just as reality produces repetitions that are never truly identical, the work dwells in misalignment—using slippage and distortion to investigate body dysmorphia and the spaces where expectation fractures, opening sites of creation.

Mirroring becomes a method for exploring interconnection, where forms co-create one another on a shared visual plane. This approach reflects an animist worldview, in which all things are imbued with consciousness and exist relationally. Drawing from ideas akin to the collective unconscious, the images function as portals—inviting alternate aspects, energies, and temporalities into view.

Many works reference mythology or imagine a recurring cosmic moment in which an idea is observed into manifestation, shifting from quantum potential into embodied form. Across these compositions, an evolving visual vocabulary emerges: sacred objects, mythical figures, personified nature, chromosomes and bodily architectures, meditative and energetic diagrams, sensual forms, and fragments of childhood visual culture.

The density of the imagery—viewed as horror vacui and psychedelia—reflects a conception of the mind as porous: understood as permeable and embedded within a larger web of awareness, rather than isolated to a single solitary figure confronting the world.