Four years ago Liao made a very solid body of panoramic pictures of the elevated Number 7 subway line in New York that went right from his thesis show at the School of Visual Arts to the walls of Julie Saul Gallery. It was an affected but stirring portrayal of commuting from the outer boroughs into New York, a world of dramatic light that would make Caravaggio blush, and a world that I imagine goes sadly unnoticed by the throngs of commuters forced to be up early enough to see it.
What has happened since then, I don’t know. Liao’s pictures have gone from problematic yet promising to something that is a step above what is being sold in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, tchotchkes of New York.
Julie Saul Gallery (535 W 22nd St. 6th Fl. Btw. 10th & 11th Aves.) through Oct. 30th
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