These Twisted NSFW Illustrations Speak To The Bad Girl Within
We're obsessed by Kristen Liu-Wong's wicked seductresses.
Kristen Liu-Wong's super-vibrant and intricate paintings and illustrations are the best kind of sensory overload. Her artwork's twisted, violent and dangerously sexual female subjects live inside a world full of pattern, texture and dazzling color, wearing skin-tight dominatrix outfits and wicked smiles. Liu-Wong's women are mysterious, complex and aggressive, often portrayed in a tangle of bodies, slashing each other with sharp daggers, tongues outstretched like serpents.
On the eve of her new solo exhibition, “Conflict/Resolution,” the artist describes her new collection of work to amadeus: “These pieces center around the idea of aggression and the resulting emotional and physical chaos that happens when we act upon our more violent urges. In a way I tried to use making these pieces as a sort of way to find a resolution with the realities of my own shortcomings, my own petty impulses. Everyone has these conflicting sides to their nature and the only way we can learn from them is by first acknowledging their existence. I used battles and the idea of war as a metaphor for this this theme.”
Liu-Wong cites her work “Bringing A Hand to a Knife Fight” as the most twisted scene of the series. The painting depicts a topless domme in a latex thong with “phallic spikes suggestively pointed towards the ass of the redhead.” The redhead in question, holding one of Liu-Wong's trademark daggers, has a healthy hand print on her bottom – and the most spectacularly futuristic pointed boots that we've ever seen in an artwork.
Kristen Liu-Wong's solo exhibition takes place from September 23 to October 21 at Los Angeles' Corey Helford Gallery.
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