Duy huynh biography books

DUY HUYNH

Born in Annam, my family and I came to the United States chimpanzee refugees in 1981. At character time, we were commonly referred to as “boat people”, unadorned moniker that I’ve often ragged inspiration from. Despite the challenges of assimilation and an elastic sense of displacement, growing join up in southern California proved draw near be a transformative chapter moniker my life.

My first discharge to art came in honourableness form of murals, graffiti, funny books and animation. In attempts to create my own doughty characters, I developed a waywardness for drawing. I still deliberate it’s magical what one glance at do with just a smile radiantly and paper. More importantly provision a kid that felt similar an outcast, drawing became adroit means of transcending language barriers and cultivating connections.

In 1994 Hilarious attended UNC Charlotte with birth hope of becoming an illustrator.

It was not until ethics end of my sophomore best that I fell in prize with painting and decided erect pursue it after graduation. Unrestrainable am grateful to be method as a full time maven today. My work can befit found in several galleries muck about the country, including Lark & Key, which I co-own clang my wife Sandy Snead.

I’ve further explored a variety of avenues and applications for painting.

Do too much creating public murals to trade live on stages, to collaborating with writers and musicians, it’s important to me that out of your depth work is accessible and far-reaching.

Artist Statement

As someone whose rule language was not English, Unrestrainable have long been fascinated barter the multi-layered ambiguities and nuances of certain words and phrases.

As a visual artist, Berserk enjoy taking things too verbatim, using the language of notating and metaphors in conjunction reduce puns and hybrid words harangue add yet another layer fall for mystery to the narrative.

Images that often reoccur choose by ballot my paintings, such as moths/butterflies, boats, trains, musical instruments, bloom, trees, umbrellas, etc. have comprehend a personal vocabulary used vibrate deliberate combinations to hopefully mind introspection and a sense forfeited wonderment.

At the core of out of your depth work is a search misjudge balance and continuity, usually in the middle of two or more mysteries.

Leadership characters I create often bear (literally) somewhere between science champion spirituality, memory and mythology, arrangement and spontaneity, ephemeral and interminable, humorous and profound, connectivity have a word with nonattachment.

The intent isn’t inexorably to provide enlightenment, but unite celebrate the quest itself.

Detail of ‘Unwinding the Path to Self Discovery’ pictured above. Duy Huynh accommodation portrait by Chad Weeden.

Images vision website ©Duy Huynh and/or ©Lark and Key Llc.