Botanical Portraits by Lia Chang commissioned for Long Island University (LIU) School of Nursing at King’s County Hospital Center
Long Island University (LIU) School of Nursing
LIU recently moved their School of Nursing into renovated space at Kings County Hospital Center. Featured in this virtual exhibit are works that were commissioned for the sites’ reception areas, classrooms and lounges.
Works were commissioned for this site by artists; Lia Chang, D. Lammie Hanson, Ramona Candy, Gustavo Schmidt, and Charlie Churchill.
Below are my six new Botanical Beauties portraits (20 x 30) commissioned for the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation Art Collection. They will be installed in the corridors of the L.I.U./Kings County Hospital Center Nursing School this month.
Sunny Pink Water lily © Lia Chang
Purple Water lily © Lia Chang
White Sacred Lotus © Lia Chang
Peaches in Raindrops Sacred Lotus © Lia Chang
Japanese Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden © Lia Chang
Peaches in Raindrops Sacred Lotus © Lia Chang
Click here for the virtual exhibit.
Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer and an award-winning multimedia journalist. Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog. As a photographer and videographer, Lia is frequently tapped to collaborate with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.
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Photo by Lia Chang
As a photographer and videographer, Lia is frequently tapped to collaborate with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.
Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog. In August, selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space will become part of THE LIA CHANG THEATER PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.
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