We are pleased to announce Tam Van Tran’s first solo exhibition in New York since 2005. The Vietnamese born, Los Angeles based artist will present new paintings, and the debut of ceramic sculptures he first began four years ago.

This will be Tran’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, the walls of which Tran has covered in silver foil, suspending the paintings, sculptures and the viewer in a reflective environment that recalls both science fiction and the Baroque.

The exhibition includes three new paintings in a series collectively called Beetle Manifesto, which were first exhibited in the Whitney Museum’s 2004 Biennial Exhibition. These recent examples are the most ambitious yet, and consist of paintings that have been cut, collaged and molded into elaborate, architectural structures that reference armor, plants and gowns. The related two dimensional paintings on paper continue Tam Van Tran’s unique use of abstraction, with the use of chlorophyll on paper.

A series of five ceramic sculptures recall Tran’s early abstract paintings which combined science fiction, archeological plans and digital circuitry in complex layers. These sculptures are in fact functional objects, holding candles, extending Tran’s atmospheric use of light. The sculptures are three dimensional, collaged structures built from forms of rolled, cut clay, and fired in an iron glaze.

Tam Van Tran’s work has most recently been included in solo museum exhibitions at The Knoxville Museum of Art and The Blaffer Gallery in Houston. He has also recently been included in group exhibitions at the ICA Boston, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, and The Hammer Museum, in addition to gallery exhibitions in both the US and Europe.