Highlights from

Kelly Lu's WAR!

in partnership with The Southern
September 9-October 7, 2016
at Annex Studio

After the successful solo exhibition earlier this summer at The Southern Gallery, highlights from Kelly Lu’s WAR! are the opening pop-up exhibition in the Annex Displays series from Charleston branding agency Annex. Three pieces from Kelly Lu’s WAR! will be displayed at Annex’s studio through October 7, 2016.

About Kelly Lu

Growing up as a minority in the South, Kelly Lu rarely saw representations of her race as a Vietnamese-American.

Her work references ideas of rebellion, the transition from childhood to adulthood, and the internal struggle to find an identity. She emphasizes how opposites balance each other by finding the relationship between light and dark, innocence and corruption, the beautiful and rotten, and life and death in an illustrative form. These ideas and concepts also tie into rebelling against the Western perspective of stereotyping the East Asian woman. Lu works in ink, marker, and acrylic on various surfaces, influenced by post-war, Japanese artists.

Kelly Lu was raised in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and is a recent graduate of the College of Charleston. Her works on display at Annex are offered for sale by The Southern.

About The Southern

The Southern is a contemporary art gallery dealing in recent works by artists connected to the American South.

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