Binh Danh received his MFA from Stanford University in 2004 and has emerged as an artist of national importance with work that investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war, both in Viet Nam and Cambodia—work that, in his own words, deals with “mortality, memory, history, landscape, justice, evidence, and spirituality.” 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 the Daguerreotype process.
Binh Danh has been included in important exhibitions at museums across the country, as well as the collections of the Corcoran Art Gallery, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the deYoung Museum, and the George Eastman House, among many others. He received the 2010 Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and is represented by Haines Gallery in San Francisco, CA and Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ.
For those of you want the short and layman version, Binh has succeeded in creating picture-perfect artworks using flora as his substrate.
Photo negatives and the substrate are combined and left to develop in the sun over a number of days.
Due to the texture of the flora, an average of four out of every five developed prints are discarded due to imperfections.
A number of Binh’s prints have been preserved in resin.
Now that’s pushing art to the next level.
Visit Binh’s website at binhdanh.com
You can find his exhibition history here.
