Heads up, San Francisco. Next month, Kearny Street Workshop and Mina Dresden Gallery present The Lost and Found, the first solo exhibition of poet-turned-visual artist Truong Tran, running February 5-26.
Tran is committed to making art accessible through the creative reuse of everyday materials. Here are a few details about his work and the exhibition:
Kearny Street Workshop & Mina Dresden Gallery PresentThere will be an Opening Reception on Friday, February 5 at the Mina Dresden Gallery. For more information about the exhibition, visit the Kearny Street Workshop website here. And to learn more about Truong Tran and his art, visit his website here.
the lost and found | Solo Exhibition | Truong Tran
February 5 – 26, 2010 Opening Reception February 5, 7 - 9 pm
Who/What: Truong Tran is committed to making art accessible through the creative reuse of everyday materials. His process includes merging disparate objects, forcing them to compromise and accommodate one another in their process of becoming something new, something difficult and beautiful. In his work, Tran explores themes of surfaces, containers and the self-portrait. Tran uses wax, thread, light, color and found objects as a way of constructing veils that must be lifted to arrive at the meaning embedded within. He uses boxes to represent the containers that hold society's expectations of identity and self. It is here that he reinterprets and challenges these expectations and the construct of the self-portrait.
He obtained his MFA from San Francisco State University and has received numerous honors including the Fund for Poetry Grant (07) three San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grants (03, 07, 09) and The Intersection for the Arts' Writer in Residency Fellowship (03). He has shown his work locally at Intersection, APAture, Kearny Street Workshop, and A. Muse Gallery. He has published many volumes of poetry, most recently Four Letter Words, Apogee Press (08). He is currently the Visiting Professor in Poetry at Mills College. Of his visual art, Truong says, "they are poems that won't fit on a page or in a book."
Where: Mina Dresden Gallery
312 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.minadresden.com
