Current Show

CREATIVE REFLECTORS

CAROLINE LIU + CEDRA WOOD

July 26 - August 23, 2025

 Opening Reception | Saturday, July 26, 4-6 pm

Pie Projects Contemporary Art is pleased to present Creative Reflectors, an exhibition of works by artists Caroline Liu and Cedra Wood. The exhibition will opens Saturday, June 26, with a reception from 4 to 6 pm, and will be on view through August 23, 2025. Both Liu and Wood showcase paintings  and masterful drawings exploring cultural identity and environmental themes.

Cedra Wood, Plot (Kluane), graphite on paper, 45 x 45 in.

Cedra Wood's graphite drawing Plot grew out of her experience at the Kluane Lake Research Station tagging along with biologists in the mountains near the world’s largest non-polar ice field. Plot is meant as a window into the infinitesimal complexity of the land. Similarly, she reflects on the heavily timbered and replanted forests of the eastern Sierra Nevada in her body of work Pine Cone Shroud. The series includes drawings, paintings, and a wearable sculpture made out of thousands of Jeffrey pine cone scales hand-stitched together. "The forests are slowly regaining a sense of wilderness, which I tried to embody in Pine Cone Shroud and its companion pieces," says Wood.

Caroline Liu reflects on her cultural identity, drawing from ancestral connections and a meditative process of introspection. In her series Chinatown of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Liu explores the Chinese diaspora through the intertwined lenses of history and Chinese mythology. The series was part of The Other Side of the Tracks, a traveling exhibition exploring the impact of the railroad on marginalized communities, particularly Native American, African American, Chinese American, and Mexican communities.

Caroline Liu, Their Bodies Packed in Barrels Marked Pickles, graphite on paper, 30 x 24 in.