ABOUT NAM
NAM is a young yet seasoned painter/photographer/graphic designer that loves the modern architecture, white space, vintage 50s furniture, traveling, photography, painting, drawing, web, polaroid, conversation, space, and doing good.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art works is the result of my subconscious thoughts and most of the times these subconscious thoughts are as much a mystery to me as they are to you. Sometimes I am able to interpret my thoughts through visual, but most of the times I cannot and I will not try to decipher them. I just let them live as they are, like art never asked me nor forced me to intellectualize anything I do.
INFLUENCES
My influences are first and foremost everything that I see, feel and experience, but I’ve always loved nature especially having grown up on a farm. I love architecture particularly Deconstructivist Modern Architecture. And photography plays an important role in my work, second only to painting. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Halim Al-Karim, David Bailey, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, are some of my favorite photographers. The artists I most admire are Claude Monet, Barnett Newman, Pat Steir, Raoul de Keyser, Marlene Dumas, Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, and Hung Liu.
COLLECTIONS
In the private collections of Central Piedmont Community College, University of NC at Charlotte, and private home.
EXHIBITIONS
2010
May 14 - July 2
Light Reflecting Light Absorbing; Elizabeth Ross Gallery, Charlotte, NC - solo show.
February
Airy Knoll; Pease Gallery, Charlotte, NC - group show.
2006
UNCC Architecture Student Show; Storrs Gallery, Charlotte, NC - group show.
2001
League for Innovation 15th Annual Art Student Show; Los Altos Hills, CA - group show.
CPCC Annual Art Juried Show; Queen Gallery, Charlotte, NC - group show.
2000
Keystone Magazine won 1st place in Painting and Photography.
Work was selected for exhibition in "An Artistic Discovery", Congressional Art Competition; Washington, D.C
