Quynh Nhu T. Vu
Heritage: Vietnamese
Quynh Vu uses oil paint in an attempt to lengthen minutes and indulge in the mundane. She is currently a collective member at Goodyear Arts.
Earlier in her practice, Vu was deeply involved with the traumatic residuum caused by French imperialism on her native land and people of Vietnam. As a first-generation Vietnamese American, the scars inflicted upon her ancestors have altered her history and ideations of identity. In processing these inflictions, Vu created work that rebelliously reclaimed, as opposed to rejecting, the aesthetics and visual by-products of Western infringement. — Jamila Brown
SAMPLE ARTWORK
Dimensions provided in inches. All artwork © Quynh Nhu T. Vu
Quynh Vu On “Closed Sundays”
“Reconfiguring objects of familiarity- whose true significance I have become numb to- in a space outside of where they belong, creates a hyperreal space that feels estranged from my memories. By removing them from the space I have become accustomed to experiencing them in, they become sacralized in the context of the gallery.”