id:			167201
accession number:	2009.17
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.17
updated:		2023-08-24 00:33:27.154000

Secret Butterfly Heaven, 2008. Tam Van Tran (American, b. 1966). Acrylic, staples, color pencil on canvas and paper; overall: 253.9 x 233.6 x 129.5 cm (99 15/16 x 91 15/16 x 51 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Contemporary Art Society and Sundry Art-Contemporary Fund 2009.17

title:				Secret Butterfly Heaven
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creation date:			2008
creation date earliest:		2008
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creditline:			Gift of the Contemporary Art Society and Sundry Art-Contemporary Fund
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culture:	America, 21st century
technique:	acrylic, staples, color pencil on canvas and paper
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Tam Van Tran (American, b. 1966)  - artist
Vietnamese-American
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measurements: Overall: 253.9 x 233.6 x 129.5 cm (99 15/16 x 91 15/16 x 51 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Tam Van Tran:  Luminosity, Cohan and Leslie, New York, September 5-October 4, 2008

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PROVENANCE

	The artist, through his New York gallery, Cohan and Leslie.
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The topographies of Tam Van Tran’s painted constructions evoke wavy landscapes and disrupted surfaces. The large-scale works are made of paper strips stapled into tectonic waves, pixilated with lines of punched holes. With this technique, the artist explores the language of painting by blurring the boundaries between the two-dimensional plane of the canvas and the three-dimensionality of sculpture. The combination of references to Western and Eastern aesthetics and the hybrid form reflect Tran’s disparate personal background: his escape from Vietnam in 1975 and his encounter with another culture and society in the United States.
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