Biography
My recent work consists of mainly abstractions of landscapes. These landscapes have a direct link to the actions relating human nature in regards consumption, waste, and the encroachment into the natural world. As a Vietnamese American artist, I place strong emphasis on cultural identity as a connection to my past. This connection allows me to work on a personal level with issues such as socioeconomics and internal struggles. I observe changes in people’s psychological state in connection to their environments. The changes appear as patterns in things such as weather, land, animals, and architecture. These elements fuse together to demonstrate progress as well as deterioration.
I reconstruct scenes or landscapes mostly from memory which allows for injections of imaginary or dreamlike elements to the images. These places straddle somewhere between what is real and what is imagined. In my paintings and drawings I try to achieve a balance between chaos and order through the process of mark making and spontaneous gestures. My continual interest in change is what prompts the shifts in direction of my work.
