AAAC HOMELOCAL ISSUESASIAN ART FORUMARTSPIRALABOUT USPROGRAMSWHAT'S NEW
(by artist name, ethnicity, media,
theme, or keyword)
ARTIST ARCHIVE

Tam Van Tran

male, born in 1966, Vietnamese American, Pratt graduate

Statement | Bio | Bibliography | Contact

Mineral Spirit 2001; 27 1/4x22 1/4; Acrylic on canvas. Mineral Spirit (detail) 2001; 27 1/4x22 1/4; Acrylic on canvas. Telepathic Turkey 2001; 27 1/4x22 1/4; Acrylic on canvas.
Lo-Tech Frequency 2000/2001; 79 1/4x68; Acrylic on canvas. The Stepsister of Frankenste in 2000; 13 1/2x27 1/4; Acrylic on canvas on panel. Missing Fingers 2000; 13 1/2 X 27; Acrylic on canvas on panel.

Themes:
abstract, conceptual, figurative


Review:
Tam Van Tran
The major formal elements of Tam Van Tran's work are map-like grids and ornamental abstractions drawn with pseudotechnical draftsmanship. Available research materials on the artist in the AAAC Archives are 78 slides, invitation cards for the various exhibitions in which the artist's works were included and reviews. In one of his art reviews of Los Angeles Times, art critic, David Pagel mentions on his work that "at once strong and delicate Tam Van Tran's new paintings are all about balance.---Forging a tense, sometimes brittle alliance between organic forms and mechanical structures, these diagrammatic abstractions smolder with fiery intensity.--- Absorbing distraction as they exert a quasi-gravitational pull on viewers, Van Tran's intergalactic Romanticism charts a futuristic universe suffused with the darkness of film noir."