BINH DANH: C.A.R.S. Online
What has been on my mind lately is catastrophes. Are we at the brink of one, or are we in the midst of it and things get better from here. What about the November election? Will we get a vaccine? When can I safely visit all my favorite art venues, go outdoors, or hug a friend? Looking and making art has always reminded me that we intersect with each other, with the dead, the living, the cycle of life from everything in the mountains, gardens, and internment camps.
-Binh Danh, August 2020
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Bio:
Binh Danh (MFA Stanford; BFA San Jose State University) emerged as an artist of national importance with work that investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war. His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on nineteenth-century photographic processes, applying them in an investigation of battlefield landscapes and contemporary memorials. A recent series of daguerreotypes celebrated the United States National Park system during its anniversary year.
His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The DeYoung Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman Museum, and many others. He received the 2010 Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, and in 2012 he was a featured artist at the 18th Biennale of Sydney in Australia. He is represented by Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA and Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, AZ. He lives and works in San Jose, CA and teaches photography at San Jose State University.
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Últimamente las catástrofes están dando vueltas por mi cabeza. ¿Estaremos al borde de una catástrofe o la estamos viviendo y más adelante la situación se mejorará? ¿Conseguiremos una vacuna? ¿Para cuando podré visitar mis recintos de arte preferidos o salir a la intemperie o dar un abrazo a mi amigo de manera segura? El observar y crear arte me recuerdan siempre que estamos conectados, los unos a los otros, conectados a los muertos y a los vivos, conectados al ciclo de la vida y a todo lo que en ello hay: las montañas, los jardines y los campamentos de internamiento.
Translated by Ann Michels / Traducido por Ann Michels
