Her (Linling Lu's) luminescent circles harken back to the tondo paintings popular during the Renaissance. Yet instead of featuring figures and scenes from the Bible and Greek and Roman mythology (all popular fodder for Renaissance art), Lu's tondos come across as thoroughly modern and even other-worldly and futuristic. As such, they inspire transcendence to, or perhaps reflection on, a higher realm, beyond the trifles of everyday life.
--Emily Gaines Buchler, Senior Writer, University Communications, Johns Hopkins University
