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Maria Lau photo goes to the Permanent Fine Art Collection at the New Jersey State Museum
June 2011The photo Kwong Wah Po from the series "71" has become part of the Fine Art collection at the N.J. State museum
"Local photographer's work is gift to her family"
May 06, 2010“Lau's work in 71 are multiple-exposed in-camera, altered during development (Lau processes her own film), or digitally created."
"Maria Lau photo exhibit extended until January"
November 13, 2009The “71. Fragments of a Dream” exhibit has been extended because of the incredible response to Lau’s photography.
"New Jersey Photographer Maria Lau explores her Cuban-Chinese heritage." Artdaily.com
July 28, 2009“We are always especially proud to present the talents of our own New Jersey artists at the State Museum,” said Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells
"71 Fragments of a Dream" The New Jersey State Museum
June 2009"Layering of imagery through double-and triple-exposures creates works which offer multiple interpretations and meanings. While these photographs serve as documents of a life re-discovered, they also succeed on a purely visual level as well."
"71" Series Photo Essay. Afro-Hispanic Review. Vol 27, Number 1
October 1, 2008"Cuba was always a far away dream for me. It was a place I understood to be home, yet a place I had never visited…"
"Latinos Forge Distinctive Identity"
August 08, 2008"Maria Lau is showing four double exposures of Havana streets that are quite literally layered. Printed in sepia tones, suggesting the bell jar atmosphere of Castroid Cuba, they illustrate her Cuban-Chinese heritage and the neighborhoods that sustain it."
Look Out: Photography and the Worlds of Contemporary Art
March 15, 2007The finale of the innovative and provocative Viajeros exhibit in Miami, will also establish the placement of the image Capitolio, by Maria Lau, into the LUAG photography collection.
Ni Modo: The Imperative Mood in Recent Latino Art
October 26, 2006There is an aesthetic felicity between the style of Lau’s work and the reflective nature of her investigations-between the operations of form and content and the layerings they perform.
TROPICALISMS: Subversions of Paradise and Other Commentaries
February 2, 2006"A re-consideration of this paradisiacal view is proposed by both María Lau and ..."
Through the Camera Lens: Views of Utopia in the Tropics
November 2, 2005Capitolio by Maria Lau evokes both the perpetual movement of a city and the ghost-like presences of a monument charged with the burden of history.
Ninety Miles Away and East of Eden
November 2, 2005"Their images are testaments of time, of extraordinary aesthetic choices and, although individually composed and informed, are nevertheless utterly influenced by a place and people that for the time being, must remain exotic..."
Maria Lau "71" Interview
May 2005"That’s part of the charm and ingenuity of the Cuban people and the same can be said of the Chinese associations in Cuba. They’ve preserved what they have and kept it running on little, to no resources."
"Diverse Artists Shaping Culture and Communities" Interview with Maria Lau
January 2005"For as much as I am Cuban, I was born here and consider myself American first and foremost. I grew up dancing to disco and listening to the Rolling Stones and while Annie Lennox was my idol, so was Celia Cruz..."
“Chinese-Cuban roots and thrifting prizes” Miami Herald
May 24, 2004"photography and video by New Jersey-based artist Maria Lau give a too-brief look at a neighborhood with a compelling history"
“71" A Cuban-Chinese Journey
May 20, 2004"We are walking layers of various places and cultures, as shown by María Lau's exhibit..."
"Art through a Global Prism" New York Times
April 25, 2004"Ms.Lau is presenting haunting photographs exploring her Chinese-Cuban ancestry..."
"Womens Work Draws on Many Varied Cultures"
April 19, 2004"Unveiling the Image: Multicultural Women Artists” is both grand and irrepressibly optimistic..."
"Maria Lau: The Photography of Recovery"
April 1, 2004"What is significant to me is how Lau in these photographs manages to reconcile beauty with truth"
"The Art of Identity"
December 13, 2003"Her photographs display a subtle immediacy and tangibly fragrant humanity..."
"Artist Draws Insight From Cuban Roots"
March 24, 2002"One of Lau’s most discussed and most exhibited works, “Santera,” appears in the show"
"Unexpected Pleasures Hiding in the Files." New York Times
September 5, 1999"…Ms. Lau, a Jersey City native of Cuban descent, recently went to Cuba to take photographs with a documentary quality. The dicey nature of relations between the United States and Cuba contribute to the edginess of her vision, but the deliberately tentative and skewed nature of her images depicts a place at once ghostly and oddly ripe."
"To Cuba and back with framed reflections"
August 1, 1999"Like a fleeting image from a dream, you are not sure what you're looking at, and have only a vague idea of what is happening."