Overseas Vietnamese painter depicts Apocalypse
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An exhibition of paintings by Vietnamese-American artist and academic Tomas Vu – Daniel will open in Ho Chi Minh City Thursday.
The works in “Flat lands” explore the painter’s ideas of Apocalypse and purgatory.
Vu-Daniel layers drawing and collage into his works to create cascades where paper and paint morph into fantastic landscapes.
Vu – Daniel was born in 1963 in Vietnam and moved to the US at the age of 10. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1987, and his MFA from Yale University in 1990.
He is now the director of printmaking and artistic director of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts.
His works have won awards in Australia, Austria, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, and across the US.
The works, previously exhibited in Italy, China, and the US, will be on show at Gallery Quynh, 65 De Tham, District 1, until June 6.
