Bio:
Lihting Li Kostrzewa is an artist who specializes in contemporary oil and acrylic painting. A cross-cultural artist came from Taiwan. Through a lifetime of learning in different art media, she has held 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. 

Artist Statement:
" For me artwork is the visual tool to express what cannot be spoken. Through creating metaphorical structures, symbols and motion, I am able to stage the expression."
-Lihting Li Kostrzewa

Highlight of Exhibitions:
Solo exhibition - a unique cross-cultural art, Midland Resort, MI, 11/9 -12/21/09
Solo exhibition, Oscars, Midland, MI, 10/2009
Personal exhibition, Midland Senior Center, Midland, MI, 7/2009
State of the Arts 2009 Annual Michigan Juried Art Exhibit, Saginaw, MI, 5/2009
25th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Midland Artists Guild, Midland, MI,3/2009
10th Anniversary Best of the Best online international art exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 12/2008 (special recognition)
Hibiscus Childrens Center 1th juried art traveling exhibitions, in Indian River, Martin and Palm Beach counties, FL. 2/2008
The 4th annual Judeo-Christian international art exhibition, &
The 8 th annual abstraction international art exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 4/2007, 10/2006 (special recognition)
Solo exhibition, invited by Art Reach of Mid-Michigan Exhibition Search Committee, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 8/2001
MFA thesis exhibition, University Art Gallery, C.M.U., Mt. Pleasant, MI, 4/1997 Kremser Literaturforum Invited landscapes exhibition. Krems, Austria, 6/15-7/3/199
34th annual Mid Michigan exhibition, Midland Dow center of art, Midland, MI, 11/1992 (outstanding award)
MA graduation solo exhibition, University Art Gallery, C.M.U., Mt. Pleasant, MI, 12/1-12/11/1992