Kenji C Liu • Fine art prints & originals • Commissions open
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Painting my life & the world I want to see • Fine art originals & prints for sale #artforsale #commissions • Los Angeles • ☸️🪷🙏🏽🇹🇼🇯🇵
📖: Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books)
Painting my life & the world I want to see • Fine art originals & prints for sale #artforsale #commissions • Los Angeles • ☸️🪷🙏🏽🇹🇼🇯🇵
📖: Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books)
Pinned
For Asian Americans who think the government's anti-immigrant raids have nothing to do with them, a little thread.🪡
Want my painting of Anti-Fascist Coyotes? Bid on it now and support a great LA land back org, Coyotl Macehuallis.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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September 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Want my painting of Anti-Fascist Coyotes? Bid on it now and support a great LA land back org, Coyotl Macehuallis.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
I'm running out of storage space! Looking to donate some older, large-ish paintings to your home, office, or organization's wall. Will deliver if within LA. DM for details!
@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I'm running out of storage space! Looking to donate some older, large-ish paintings to your home, office, or organization's wall. Will deliver if within LA. DM for details!
@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
Sending federal agents to Governor Gavin Newsom's press conference in Little Tokyo in front of the Japanese American National Museum is giving peak little dick energy
August 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sending federal agents to Governor Gavin Newsom's press conference in Little Tokyo in front of the Japanese American National Museum is giving peak little dick energy
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These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.
July 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.
Little Tokyo is a community of immigrants. Happy to have worked with Mitsuru Sushi to create this temporary mural of the owner's sisters and father. Support this legacy business!
Huge thanks to Nellita's Craft for facilitating and for supplies.
#art #streetart #mural #portraits #paintings
Huge thanks to Nellita's Craft for facilitating and for supplies.
#art #streetart #mural #portraits #paintings
July 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Little Tokyo is a community of immigrants. Happy to have worked with Mitsuru Sushi to create this temporary mural of the owner's sisters and father. Support this legacy business!
Huge thanks to Nellita's Craft for facilitating and for supplies.
#art #streetart #mural #portraits #paintings
Huge thanks to Nellita's Craft for facilitating and for supplies.
#art #streetart #mural #portraits #paintings
Birthright citizenship This Chinese American man's SCOTUS case established it for anyone not yt or black.
Here's my portrait of Wong Kim Ark, born in the US. He visited China and on his return, immigration officials denied him re-entry under the Chinese Exclusion Act. He fought and won, establishing that birthright citizenship applies to people other than whites and blacks.
June 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Birthright citizenship This Chinese American man's SCOTUS case established it for anyone not yt or black.
Getting started on a mural for a Little Tokyo storefront that's been boarded up due to protests against the ICE raids. Annoying to see our community of immigrants get tagged up by outsiders protesting in solidarity with immigrants.
#immigrants #littletokyo #art #mural
#immigrants #littletokyo #art #mural
June 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Getting started on a mural for a Little Tokyo storefront that's been boarded up due to protests against the ICE raids. Annoying to see our community of immigrants get tagged up by outsiders protesting in solidarity with immigrants.
#immigrants #littletokyo #art #mural
#immigrants #littletokyo #art #mural
When your sign is supposed to say "NO ICE" but ends up looking like "NOICE." Kerning matters.
#graphicdesign #noice #meltice
#graphicdesign #noice #meltice
June 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
When your sign is supposed to say "NO ICE" but ends up looking like "NOICE." Kerning matters.
#graphicdesign #noice #meltice
#graphicdesign #noice #meltice
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doing surveillance to the surveillance state www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...
‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
www.404media.co
June 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
doing surveillance to the surveillance state www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...
Remember dear reader, we can no longer call the interment of 120,000 Japanese Americans "bad," it is now officially "double plus ungood."
#orwell
#orwell
June 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Remember dear reader, we can no longer call the interment of 120,000 Japanese Americans "bad," it is now officially "double plus ungood."
#orwell
#orwell
Another portrait for Asian Americans who think ICE is not our fight. Quok Shee came to the US in 1916 with her husband & was detained at Angel Island in SF. She had to fight for nearly 2 years. Finally in 1918 a judge ruled that immigration officials had abused their power & withheld information. ⬇️
June 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Another portrait for Asian Americans who think ICE is not our fight. Quok Shee came to the US in 1916 with her husband & was detained at Angel Island in SF. She had to fight for nearly 2 years. Finally in 1918 a judge ruled that immigration officials had abused their power & withheld information. ⬇️
More for Asian Americans who think the ICE raids have nothing to do with them.
Ju Toy was born in the US. He visited China, was denied re-entry to the US, and ordered deported. He sued. In 1905 the Supreme Court unanimously ruled immigration could deny entry to a US citizen of Chinese descent without judicial hearing. Ju Toy was deported. This precedent eventually...
June 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
More for Asian Americans who think the ICE raids have nothing to do with them.
For Asian Americans who think the government's anti-immigrant raids have nothing to do with them, a little thread.🪡
June 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
For Asian Americans who think the government's anti-immigrant raids have nothing to do with them, a little thread.🪡
Do you support ICE? Fine. Here's the thing. ICE is violating the 14th Amendment rights of citizens, legal residents, and undocumented people. Supporting ICE means you are against the US as a constitutional republic and for a fascist dictatorship. Just admit it, because the rest of us can see you.
June 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Do you support ICE? Fine. Here's the thing. ICE is violating the 14th Amendment rights of citizens, legal residents, and undocumented people. Supporting ICE means you are against the US as a constitutional republic and for a fascist dictatorship. Just admit it, because the rest of us can see you.
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Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose? Who does the time? Who follows orders? Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?
The downtown L.A. mural that was a prophetic backdrop to ICE street protests
The downtown L.A. mural that was a prophetic backdrop to ICE street protests
ICE protests downtown had a powerful backdrop: the 1990 Barbara Kruger mural 'Questions,' which interrogates the very nature of power and control.
www.latimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose? Who does the time? Who follows orders? Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?
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"Volunteer Fire Department"
A thread on advice on extinguishing tear gas disseminated during the HK protests, in rough chronological order when they appeared. It's interesting to see how 'best-practice' evolved through 2019 as frontliners got better at neutralizing the stuff
Source: TG (Oct 2019)
A thread on advice on extinguishing tear gas disseminated during the HK protests, in rough chronological order when they appeared. It's interesting to see how 'best-practice' evolved through 2019 as frontliners got better at neutralizing the stuff
Source: TG (Oct 2019)
November 27, 2024 at 1:18 PM
"Volunteer Fire Department"
A thread on advice on extinguishing tear gas disseminated during the HK protests, in rough chronological order when they appeared. It's interesting to see how 'best-practice' evolved through 2019 as frontliners got better at neutralizing the stuff
Source: TG (Oct 2019)
A thread on advice on extinguishing tear gas disseminated during the HK protests, in rough chronological order when they appeared. It's interesting to see how 'best-practice' evolved through 2019 as frontliners got better at neutralizing the stuff
Source: TG (Oct 2019)
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ICE raid in Chinatown, Los Angeles
Nearly two hours of video - for those collecting intel on goon squads
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Nearly two hours of video - for those collecting intel on goon squads
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
ICE RAID Chinatown
YouTube video by Film The Police LA
www.youtube.com
June 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
ICE raid in Chinatown, Los Angeles
Nearly two hours of video - for those collecting intel on goon squads
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Nearly two hours of video - for those collecting intel on goon squads
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Hottest in summer girls-guys-any attire
🥽🥽 ⛑️⛑️ 🛴🛴 🎒🎒
Orange cones brigade
🥽🥽 ⛑️⛑️ 🛴🛴 🎒🎒
Orange cones brigade
June 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Hottest in summer girls-guys-any attire
🥽🥽 ⛑️⛑️ 🛴🛴 🎒🎒
Orange cones brigade
🥽🥽 ⛑️⛑️ 🛴🛴 🎒🎒
Orange cones brigade
Reposted by Kenji C Liu • Fine art prints & originals • Commissions open
Reposted by Kenji C Liu • Fine art prints & originals • Commissions open
Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.
BREAKING: please, everyone, turn on local news.
there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago.
Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks.
If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.
there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago.
Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks.
If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.
Hey, the Donut Place!
June 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.
No one is obligated to obey a president who flouts the Constitution.
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
June 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No one is obligated to obey a president who flouts the Constitution.
I had this painting I didn't like lying around. So I decided to give it a makeover.
I worked on composition, value, texture, and color palette.
What do you think of the result? Leave a comment!
#painting #art #asianamericanartist #figurativepainting #artcollector #losangelesartist
I worked on composition, value, texture, and color palette.
What do you think of the result? Leave a comment!
#painting #art #asianamericanartist #figurativepainting #artcollector #losangelesartist
May 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I had this painting I didn't like lying around. So I decided to give it a makeover.
I worked on composition, value, texture, and color palette.
What do you think of the result? Leave a comment!
#painting #art #asianamericanartist #figurativepainting #artcollector #losangelesartist
I worked on composition, value, texture, and color palette.
What do you think of the result? Leave a comment!
#painting #art #asianamericanartist #figurativepainting #artcollector #losangelesartist
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What a beautiful definition of writing by Davé, drawing on T. King’s “The Black Shoals”
#indifference
#anthropology
#indifference
#anthropology
May 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
What a beautiful definition of writing by Davé, drawing on T. King’s “The Black Shoals”
#indifference
#anthropology
#indifference
#anthropology
New limited edition prints of my portrait of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. A % goes to Gaza relief efforts.
His influence on me: the poetics of displacement and longing in his work.
www.kenjiliu.com/art-store/p/...
#art #mahmouddarwish #poetry #poet
@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
His influence on me: the poetics of displacement and longing in his work.
www.kenjiliu.com/art-store/p/...
#art #mahmouddarwish #poetry #poet
@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
Mahmoud Darwish - Giclee fine art print — KENJI C. LIU » Book Design · Art Prints · Original Paintings · Poetry
I wanted to create a portrait series of legacy writers who have been crucial to my own development. For me, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s work is an important touchstone. This print will help you...
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May 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
New limited edition prints of my portrait of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. A % goes to Gaza relief efforts.
His influence on me: the poetics of displacement and longing in his work.
www.kenjiliu.com/art-store/p/...
#art #mahmouddarwish #poetry #poet
@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
His influence on me: the poetics of displacement and longing in his work.
www.kenjiliu.com/art-store/p/...
#art #mahmouddarwish #poetry #poet
@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art