Purchased with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art.
© Lien Truong
Artist Lien Truong was born in Saigon, Vietnam. She now lives in North Carolina, where she is an associate professor of painting and drawing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. I, Buffalo is from her series titled Musings of an Origin. In this series Truong speaks to the worldwide textile trade dating back to the Silk Road.
Her work’s tactile and unfinished quality gives the viewer a sense of traveling through time and space, along the Silk Roads of past centuries to the American West. Truong’s art twists and bends common understandings of Asia and its history, inspired by motifs from the East and complex stories around the textile trade. Her work reimagines colonial, transnational, and conflict-heavy histories and questions the concepts of origin, nationality, and borders.
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