Born and raised in a small town in Taiwan, Li Hua Mahalik immigrated to the United States in her early twenties, raising a family and studying various disciplines like Engineering and Architecture and finally earning a degree in Painting from Arizona State University. Since then she studied under many renowned painters at the Scottsdale Artists School.
Having been painting impressionistic landscape, Still Life and Portraits, and as a foundation, Li is venturing into the unknown, the Abstract, a fascinating subject that has always been in the back of her mind. Although oil has always been her favorite medium, her new adventure brought her to the discovery of the new acrylic as an exciting media for Abstract painting.
As a painter, her goal is to paint beautiful and memorable paintings. Her Non-Representational Abstract work is often inspired by something that she sees outside and inside; the division and the placement of space or masses that challenges the norm.
Li lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband, Mark.
EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS
2010 Shemer Art Center "Point of Pride" Juried exhibition, SACAMA, Phoenix, Arizona
2010 Shemer Art Center "Alive!" Juried exhibition, SACAMA, Phoenix, Arizona
2009 Scottsdale Artists’ League, Juried show at Scottsdale Artists School
2009 Scottsdale Artists’ League Show, Honorable Mention Award
2008 Arizona Artists Alliance, Juried Show, Spring
2007 Arizona Artists Alliance, Juried Show, Winter
2007 Arizona Artists Alliance, Juried Show, Spring Merit Award
2006 Scottsdale Artists School Best and Brightest Juried Exhibition
2006 Arizona Artist Alliance, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Juried Exhibition
Merit Award
2006 Scottsdale Artists’ League, Phoenix Botanical Garden Exhibition
2005 Scottsdale Artist League, Scottsdale Artists School Juried Exhibition
2005 Scottsdale Artist League, Artist of the Month, 2nd Place
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS TAUGHT BY
Qiang Huang, Susan Diehl
Jean Chambers, Linda Glover Gooch
Chris Saper, Gabor Svagrik
Robert Moore, Nancy Chaboun
Larry Charles, Dan Young
Julie Gilbert Pollard, Bill Lundquist
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