24 Hours of My Day
My exhibition is called 24 Hours of My Day. It portrays the beauty of Vietnamese life. Most of the ideas are originated from my surroundings. The exhibition is cultural connected to my personal daily reflection. Everything that I depicted in my artworks is capture of daily scenes and objects that I see in Saigon. Vietnam is a small community in which everyone lives near each other, a lot of ordinary scenes that I see every day and find that interesting seeing people get together, drink coffee and eat... have inspired me to create the artwork. The exhibition is divided into three main areas: food, people and street scene. I used a related range of colors to connect the artworks together which are bright bold colors. This would help making the artworks playful and lively. Moreover, it would also express the idea of modernizing those traditional images of Vietnam today.
The exhibition will be arranged and divided into three sections: food and drink, landscape, and people-related theme. I used a wide range of acrylic paint, ink, watercolor and craft paper to create both 2D and 3D artwork. I want to portray everything I perceive in many art movements. Especially art pieces showing traditional value such as the Pop Art Vietnamese Girl, this painting was inspired by Pop art movement. It portrays Vietnamese women who express the cultural and traditional beauty but a little bit of modernized. The lady is wearing ao dai which is Vietnamese traditional costume and wearing non la as one of the popular image related to Vietnam. The painting shows another way of expressing Vietnamese beauty of a unique perception of Pop Art which is inspired by Andy Warhol with bright color palettes in the Pop Art art movement. The exhibition is focusing on capturing things in a realistic portraying. Majority of the art pieces are painted realistically but some are not because different styles and art movements are picked to express the topic. Vietnamese beauty is also expressed through food theme art pieces in the exhibition such as: Banh Mi Cart, Sculpture of Pho, Vietnamese Coffee… The intention of giving dimensions to the exhibition is achieved by creating Sculpture. It was created differently than the other art pieces because its size was enlarged. Banh Mi Cart was created and arranged in a 3-dimension setting. It was portrayed using acrylic paint and watercolor on A0 paper. The watercolor paintings would be hung in front of the cart. These pieces would eventually remind people of what they usually see in their daily life in Vietnam which mostly the people find it too usual and don’t even care. Sculpture of Pho is also another enlarged sculpture which depicted the popular Vietnamese traditional food. The inspiration was getting from Claes Oldenburg who is best known for his public art installation featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Three bowls of pho would probably impress the viewers and remind what they eat in Vietnam. The number of pieces of one art piece is usually one or three which can somehow relate them together. Three pieces are created in the same subject matter but somehow depicted in different views and different medium used. With the same artwork like Banh Mi Cart which combine 2-dimension and 3-dimension value, Street drawing is created and cardboard is used as the material to give 3-dimension value to the drawing.
With these works, I wanted the viewer to have a visual about my personal life in Vietnam and reflected on their own life. Each piece represents an object or a scene that they would usually see in Vietnam. The food and drink themed artworks would be hung near each other and continue with people themed and landscape themed artworks. Because of the bright colors used in the artworks, the background choice would be rice paper, which only has simple color. At first, I had trouble choosing the range of colors used in each piece of artwork and also how the theme would be connected together. I then decided to use my experience and my perception, from what I see every day and capture it all into my artworks. With that, each of the pieces would be related to the theme that is personal and life-reflected. The choice of colors would be bright and bold so that it would change things from normal captured into a bright and distinct look. The rice papers and their color would dim down the color of these bold and bright colors of the pieces.
My exhibition is called 24 Hours of My Day. It portrays the beauty of Vietnamese life. Most of the ideas are originated from my surroundings. The exhibition is cultural connected to my personal daily reflection. Everything that I depicted in my artworks is capture of daily scenes and objects that I see in Saigon. Vietnam is a small community in which everyone lives near each other, a lot of ordinary scenes that I see every day and find that interesting seeing people get together, drink coffee and eat... have inspired me to create the artwork. The exhibition is divided into three main areas: food, people and street scene. I used a related range of colors to connect the artworks together which are bright bold colors. This would help making the artworks playful and lively. Moreover, it would also express the idea of modernizing those traditional images of Vietnam today.
The exhibition will be arranged and divided into three sections: food and drink, landscape, and people-related theme. I used a wide range of acrylic paint, ink, watercolor and craft paper to create both 2D and 3D artwork. I want to portray everything I perceive in many art movements. Especially art pieces showing traditional value such as the Pop Art Vietnamese Girl, this painting was inspired by Pop art movement. It portrays Vietnamese women who express the cultural and traditional beauty but a little bit of modernized. The lady is wearing ao dai which is Vietnamese traditional costume and wearing non la as one of the popular image related to Vietnam. The painting shows another way of expressing Vietnamese beauty of a unique perception of Pop Art which is inspired by Andy Warhol with bright color palettes in the Pop Art art movement. The exhibition is focusing on capturing things in a realistic portraying. Majority of the art pieces are painted realistically but some are not because different styles and art movements are picked to express the topic. Vietnamese beauty is also expressed through food theme art pieces in the exhibition such as: Banh Mi Cart, Sculpture of Pho, Vietnamese Coffee… The intention of giving dimensions to the exhibition is achieved by creating Sculpture. It was created differently than the other art pieces because its size was enlarged. Banh Mi Cart was created and arranged in a 3-dimension setting. It was portrayed using acrylic paint and watercolor on A0 paper. The watercolor paintings would be hung in front of the cart. These pieces would eventually remind people of what they usually see in their daily life in Vietnam which mostly the people find it too usual and don’t even care. Sculpture of Pho is also another enlarged sculpture which depicted the popular Vietnamese traditional food. The inspiration was getting from Claes Oldenburg who is best known for his public art installation featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Three bowls of pho would probably impress the viewers and remind what they eat in Vietnam. The number of pieces of one art piece is usually one or three which can somehow relate them together. Three pieces are created in the same subject matter but somehow depicted in different views and different medium used. With the same artwork like Banh Mi Cart which combine 2-dimension and 3-dimension value, Street drawing is created and cardboard is used as the material to give 3-dimension value to the drawing.
With these works, I wanted the viewer to have a visual about my personal life in Vietnam and reflected on their own life. Each piece represents an object or a scene that they would usually see in Vietnam. The food and drink themed artworks would be hung near each other and continue with people themed and landscape themed artworks. Because of the bright colors used in the artworks, the background choice would be rice paper, which only has simple color. At first, I had trouble choosing the range of colors used in each piece of artwork and also how the theme would be connected together. I then decided to use my experience and my perception, from what I see every day and capture it all into my artworks. With that, each of the pieces would be related to the theme that is personal and life-reflected. The choice of colors would be bright and bold so that it would change things from normal captured into a bright and distinct look. The rice papers and their color would dim down the color of these bold and bright colors of the pieces.
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Title Vietnamese Lady
Medium Background of found photos with gloss layer and acrylic paint on canvas
Size 50x50 cm
Intention This piece portrays a Vietnamse Girl in Pop Art theme. The girl wears ao dai which is Vietnamese traditional costume. On top is non la which is also a traditional accessorize in Vietnam. The background is made with Black&White photos that are cut and glued and were put a gloss layer on top. I wanted people to look at a modernized Vietnamese women who are always being elegant in her Vietnamese traditional dress.
Medium Background of found photos with gloss layer and acrylic paint on canvas
Size 50x50 cm
Intention This piece portrays a Vietnamse Girl in Pop Art theme. The girl wears ao dai which is Vietnamese traditional costume. On top is non la which is also a traditional accessorize in Vietnam. The background is made with Black&White photos that are cut and glued and were put a gloss layer on top. I wanted people to look at a modernized Vietnamese women who are always being elegant in her Vietnamese traditional dress.
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Title Banh Mi Cart
Medium Paper of acrylic painting and watercolor painting
Size150 x 70 cm cm
Intention This piece is a big size paper painting of Banh Mi Cart. Banh mi is a Vietnamese term of bread. Being a Vietnamese citizen, I always see banh mi carts outside of the street and that’s why I got inspired by what I usually on the street. Banh Mi Cart located on the sides of the street and people often gathered around to buy Banh mi. The cart piece is made out of acrylic paint and A2 paper. Five pieces of watercolor painting which portray Banh mi would be hanging in front to give more dimensions to the art piece.
Medium Paper of acrylic painting and watercolor painting
Size150 x 70 cm cm
Intention This piece is a big size paper painting of Banh Mi Cart. Banh mi is a Vietnamese term of bread. Being a Vietnamese citizen, I always see banh mi carts outside of the street and that’s why I got inspired by what I usually on the street. Banh Mi Cart located on the sides of the street and people often gathered around to buy Banh mi. The cart piece is made out of acrylic paint and A2 paper. Five pieces of watercolor painting which portray Banh mi would be hanging in front to give more dimensions to the art piece.
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Title Street Wall
Medium A photograph of street wall and rope
Size 30 x 60 cm
Intention This photograph is taken in a small alley. It was added with a lot of layers of other photos and combined into the same piece. The picture would show a great sense of a vintage and ancient look. The string is painted with pink neon color and glued so that it could attract attention. I wanted to create a simple and clean look in this artwork.
Medium A photograph of street wall and rope
Size 30 x 60 cm
Intention This photograph is taken in a small alley. It was added with a lot of layers of other photos and combined into the same piece. The picture would show a great sense of a vintage and ancient look. The string is painted with pink neon color and glued so that it could attract attention. I wanted to create a simple and clean look in this artwork.
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Title Ca Phe Sua Da
Medium watercolor on paper 3 artworks with acrylic paint on canvas, and paper materials glued on paper.
Size 25 x 25 cm
Intention These 3 art pieces depict Vietnamese coffee. However, each of them is portrayed realistically in different views and perceptions. These kinds of coffee drinking is especially often seen in Vietnam on the streets. The first piece is an acrylic painting, the second piece is a watercolor painting and the third one is collage. The 3 pieces with the same composition in different media would create a more diverse perception of the same view.
Medium watercolor on paper 3 artworks with acrylic paint on canvas, and paper materials glued on paper.
Size 25 x 25 cm
Intention These 3 art pieces depict Vietnamese coffee. However, each of them is portrayed realistically in different views and perceptions. These kinds of coffee drinking is especially often seen in Vietnam on the streets. The first piece is an acrylic painting, the second piece is a watercolor painting and the third one is collage. The 3 pieces with the same composition in different media would create a more diverse perception of the same view.
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Title Bowls of Pho
Medium Plaster with acrylic paint
Size 55 x 55 cm
Intention 3 bowls of pho is made from plaster. The food is made from different types of materials such as paper, magazine, cloth... Pho is a traditional Vietnamese food which is commonly known as famous and delicious in Vietnam. This artwork was inspired by Claes Oldenburg who is most known for his enlarged sculpture of ordinary objects.
Medium Plaster with acrylic paint
Size 55 x 55 cm
Intention 3 bowls of pho is made from plaster. The food is made from different types of materials such as paper, magazine, cloth... Pho is a traditional Vietnamese food which is commonly known as famous and delicious in Vietnam. This artwork was inspired by Claes Oldenburg who is most known for his enlarged sculpture of ordinary objects.
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Title Ao Dai
Medium Fabric and acrylic paint
Size 120 x 32 cm
Intention This piece portrays the beautiful Vietnamese traditional costume which is called Ao Dai. It is known as one of the most fabulous design for traditional dress all around the world. The lady looks eye-catching with traditional beauty.
Medium Fabric and acrylic paint
Size 120 x 32 cm
Intention This piece portrays the beautiful Vietnamese traditional costume which is called Ao Dai. It is known as one of the most fabulous design for traditional dress all around the world. The lady looks eye-catching with traditional beauty.
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Title Cut Paper Self Portrait
Medium Acrylic painted fabrics, magazines, coloured paper glued on Paper
Size 50 x 70 cm
Intention This piece is a collage composed of fabric painted with acrylic, magazines, transparent paper and colored paper with different range of colours. This piece portrays a portrait of myself at school which reflects of my daily life being a student.
Medium Acrylic painted fabrics, magazines, coloured paper glued on Paper
Size 50 x 70 cm
Intention This piece is a collage composed of fabric painted with acrylic, magazines, transparent paper and colored paper with different range of colours. This piece portrays a portrait of myself at school which reflects of my daily life being a student.
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Title Pauper
Medium Acrylic paint on Canvas
Size 71 x 50 cm
Intention This acrylic painting portrays a poor woman who is sitting on the street. It captures a moment that I often see beggars on the street. I wanted people to feel emotional when looking at this painting. The scene is too familiar to the Vietnamese people that they often ignore and don’t even mind about it. This piece would remind people of the poor and they always want to gain happiness as everyone.
Medium Acrylic paint on Canvas
Size 71 x 50 cm
Intention This acrylic painting portrays a poor woman who is sitting on the street. It captures a moment that I often see beggars on the street. I wanted people to feel emotional when looking at this painting. The scene is too familiar to the Vietnamese people that they often ignore and don’t even mind about it. This piece would remind people of the poor and they always want to gain happiness as everyone.
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Title Street Scene
Medium Tracing paper, paper on cardboard.
Size 35 x 62 cm
Intention This piece is a drawing using ink pen depicts a street scene of buildings houses. Cardboard was used to give more dimension for the drawing. Vietnam is very crowded and bosterous because people live near each other. Through this piece, everyone could see things that they often see everyday in Vietnam.
Medium Tracing paper, paper on cardboard.
Size 35 x 62 cm
Intention This piece is a drawing using ink pen depicts a street scene of buildings houses. Cardboard was used to give more dimension for the drawing. Vietnam is very crowded and bosterous because people live near each other. Through this piece, everyone could see things that they often see everyday in Vietnam.
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Title Limes
Medium Photograph
Size 42x35
Intention The photograph is a capture of a lime cart in Ben Thanh Market. It was made out of 2 photographs in which one is original photograph and another is in Black and White. The final work is done with combining 2 photographs which are cut into stripes and combining them.
Medium Photograph
Size 42x35
Intention The photograph is a capture of a lime cart in Ben Thanh Market. It was made out of 2 photographs in which one is original photograph and another is in Black and White. The final work is done with combining 2 photographs which are cut into stripes and combining them.