Lihting Lily Li Kostrzewa is an artist who specializes in contemporary oil and acrylic painting. A cross-cultural artist from Taiwan, artwork has been exhibited in Taiwan, Austria and many states of USA.

 

 

Through a lifetime of learning in different art medium, she has much academic training and education, such as a MFA degree in Modern Painting, a MA degree in Computer Graphics, a BFA degree in Chinese Art. She utilizes many techniques to enrich her art. She also has a deep concern for humanity and through her senses she creates art to express human struggles as well as the love of mankind. Her color is expressive from the influence of study in German Expressionism, and her ink-like brush strokes on her painting is deep rooted in her Chinese culture and the years of training in Chinese Art. 

 

She loves nature and spends much time in northern Michigan where she enjoys her cottage by the water. She also shows special interest in the study of Clinical Psychology and its unique relationship with Art. She sees Art with healing power in human emotion as well as neurological function. She would like using her art to bring healing to those with a broken world.

 

Her art reproductions can be purchased on line in both canvas and print formates to give viewers a nice oil painting look or a museum collection quality. Also all the reproductions can be matted and framed as choice of color which can be viewed on line and directly ship to your house or office. L K Gallery - bring art to the Mid Michigan Community. We host monthly art shows in both private and public settings around Michigan to promote the solo artist Lihting Li Kostrzewa. Questions regarding our service, write to us at

 

"Lih-ting Li Kostrzewa in the use of charcoal and acrylic presents a rather loose and playful representation of “A Bird in Landscape”. This free form approach helps to suggest the lightness and freedom associated with birds."

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Outstanding Award from Midland Center of Arts, Midland Art Council of Michigan

Meet the Artist: My name is Lihting Li, I was born in a small town of Taiwan in 1965, the youngest of five children. Both my parents moved from China to Taiwan right after WWII. My father loves creative writing, and he eventually became a famous writer in Taiwan.

    Since I was nine years old, I have dreamed about being an artist. I remember one day I saw some Cézanne paintings in one of my father’s magazines, I soon copied them with watercolor on papers. A love for art has ever since become my devotion. At the age of twelve, my parents sent me to learn traditional Chinese painting from a Chinese master and this continued for the next six years. At the age of sixteen, I began learning oil painting and did many portrait paintings for my family as well as a school teacher.

    After receiving my BFA degree and teaching certificate from National Taiwan Normal University, I taught art in junior high school for three years and also served as an Art Education director of the thirteen junior high schools in my school district. In 1990 I received an opportunity to come to Ohio State University to study American Language, so I quit my tenured teaching job and came to the US to pursuit my dream. Eventually I went on to receive art scholarships to finish both my MA degree in Computer Graphics and MFA degree in Painting from Central Michigan University. For years I have worked as a computer artist, designer and art professor in both industrial and academic settings.

    Currently, I am a full time professional artist with my own art studio.

    In early 1900, three pioneer Chinese artists went to Paris to study European modern art and they brought back ground breaking changes in Chinese Art. I am hoping to bring some of my Chinese Art perspective to modern painting and marry them into a cross-cultural uniqueness.