Lily Lihting Li Kostrzewa is a contemporary fine artist who specializing in cross-cultural acrylic painting. Lily, a Taiwan-born artist, her style of painting is lush, imaginative and cultural with simple brushstrokes exhibiting complicate layers of colors. Lily now lives and paints in Michigan, her artwork has been exhibited in Taiwan, Austria, Canada, Greece, Italy and many states in the USA, including those at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI; The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; UNESCO Art Gallery, Athens, Greece, Lansing Art Gallery, MI, International Art Expo New York City, Ben Navaee Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Hibiscus Children’s Center, Palm Beach, FL, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, CA and Hsinchu Culture Center, Taiwan.

Through a lifetime of learning in different art media, she has a resume of earned academics, such as a MFA degree in Modern Painting, a MA degree in Computer Graphics, a BFA degree in Chinese Art and an Art Teaching degree. She utilizes many techniques from both the eastern and western art to enrich her painting. She also has a deep concern for humanity and true love for nature. Through her senses she creates art to express life's journey as well as the beauty of nature. 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. 

If you enjoy East and West cultures and the ideas that bring such cross-cultural globalization to your life and working environment. We have the special fine art works you are looking for. Holiday sale is here now, you can find LK's fine art for sale at 20% off online here.

L.K.'s art "Lying Nude" has been selected in the prestigious Museo Storico della Fanteria (the Historical Museum of Infantry), Rome, Italy for its International Cultural Manifestation - "Fragments of Stories between the History". The event will take place in Rome from November 26 to December 14, 2011. It is part of the closing celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. See newspaper interview and video online at the morningsun.com.

L.K. participated in ArtPrize 2011.

ArtPrize took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan September 21 – October 9, 2011. The largest art prize event in the world. 

 

L.K.'s art has been selected as home page head artwork for Athens Art 2011, the international arts festival, a group of 5 continents-102 countries-1620 artists.