painting, photography, sculpture, installation,
video and performance works
Organized by Kim Tran and Tran Luong
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An My Le |
Kim Tran |
Minh Phuoc |
An Pham |
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David Thomas |
From Vietnam: Dinh Gia Le, Kim Ngoc, Nguyen Le Vu, Nguyen
Minh Phuoc, Nguyen Viet Tu, Tran Hung and Tran Luong,
Vietnamese in America: An-My-Le, An Pham, Kim Tran, Khanh
Vo
David Thomas, an American artist, well-known for his
Ho Chi Minh project exhibits 50 of the paintings in the 1st floor
gallery.
Sponsored in part by the Asian Cultural Council
Performances: Saturdays, March 8th and 15th at 8.00PM
Lecture- Contemporary Vietnamese Art by Tran Luong: Sunday,
March 16th 5:00PM
Williamsburg Bridges Vietnam is one of a series of art exhibitions
and performances by Vietnamese, Vietnamese-American, and Vietnam-associated
artists, organized by Kim Tran, an American artist of Vietnamese
origin and Tran Luong a Vietnamese artist. The exhibition
offers a glimpse into current developments in art in Vietnam and
contemporary art by Vietnamese-Americans. The series follows in
the footsteps of recent visits by visual and performing Vietnamese
artists hosted by the Dance Theatre Workshop. Seven Vietnamese
artists will travel to New York to continue the cultural exchange
and make site-specific installations and performance work for
these exhibitions occurring during March and April 2003.
Included on the 2nd floor of the WAH Center are painting, photography,
sculpture, installation, video and performance works by Dinh
Gia Le, Kim Ngoc, Nguyen Le Vu, Nguyen Minh Phuoc, Nguyen Viet
Tu,Tran Hung and Tran Luong, a painter, installation and performance
artist whose work centers around his associations with water.
Tran Luong had his first solo exhibition in New York at
Art in General in 1999. He currently directs a contemporary
art center in Hanoi, and was part of the Cultural Organizers project
sponsored by the Dance Theatre Workshop in December. An-My
Le, a photographer for whom the subject of Vietnam, more specifically
the Vietnam of the mind, has been the focus of her work for some
time, returned there in 1994 for the first time since the end
of the war for an extended photographic project. In 1999 she became
interested in finding a way to incorporate popular imagery of
the Vietnam War into her work. Part of this work was recently
hung at the PS1 Contemporary Art Center.
An Pham, a sculptor and painter, integrates camouflage
into his comments on war strategies in two oil paintings of chessboard
imagery, one western and one Chinese. Kim Tran is a sculptor whose
work historically incorporated found and used objects. His recent
work transmutes the Vietnamese cultural tradition of making images
with broken ceramics in Buddhist temple walls into a contemporary
art medium. An example is his 10 meter cube Skyspace created in
spring 2002 on the banks of the Perfume River in Hue, Central
Vietnam. Using broken ceramic tiles and colored grout to alternately
delineate or distort the underlying grid, Tran's wall-pieces invite
the viewer to associate landscapes, aerial views, maps and archeological
finds. Khanh Vo is a sculptor who explores the fragility of comfort
and belonging through themes which include the rebuilding of community,
issues of membership, traumatic memory and the underlying experience
of loss informed by his perpetual consciousness of the Vietnam
War.
David Thomas, an American artist well-known for his Ho
Chi Minh project exhibits 50 of the paintings in the 1st floor
gallery.
For more about Viertnamese art and for news about the Vietnamese
art world, vist VietnamArtBooks.com.
Also:
5th Annual BRIDGING ART
& ABILITY
Exhibition by artists with disabilities
Mark Carter, Michelle Cohen, A. Santiago, Gail Shamchenko,
Teriananda, Richard J. Treitner, Linda Vivona, Robert J. Weiss
Organized by the Belsky Art Society, James Pinney, Director