Exhibitions
Vin Gallery
Nov 06 - Nov 29, 2021
I Have Seen by Sto Len
All images courtesy of Vin Gallery
Vin Gallery proudly presents an Online 3D Show 'Nước Là Sự Sống | Water is Life' by artist Sto Len. The title ‘Water is Life’ references the slogan from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in the U.S. and plays on the Vietnamese word Nước (water), which has a double meaning of water and country.
Microbiome, 2018, 48 x 30.5 cm (h x w), Oil paintspray paintenameldirt and debris
Vortex Street, 2018, 50 x 38 cm (h x w), Oil paintspray paintenameldirt and debris
Sto focuses on local waterways and their communities when creating his work, giving voice to the global struggle to maintain clean water. Using unconventional printmaking techniques, Sto creates marbled monoprints using pollution found floating in rivers, canals, lakes and streams around the world. He believes these bodies of water contain valuable information that we need to document. His prints capture the water’s memories of what has happened there, revealing patterns of pollution, each print a direct call for action to change what the future holds.
Saigon Prints Untitled #11, 2017, 30.5 x 23 cm (h x w), Pollution and natural debris on archival paper
Saigon Prints Untitled #13, 2017, 23 x 30.5 cm (h x w), Pollution and natural debris on archival paper
Sông Sài Gòn No.13, 2017, 40 x 30 cm (h x w), Pollution and detritus on paper
Newtown Creek (Grand st Bridge), 2018, 40 x 30 cm (h x w), Pollution and detritus on paper
Sto Len is a printmaker, sculptor, painter, musician and curator with interests in improvisation and experimentation within a variety of media. His current body of work integrates the traditional art of Suminagashi with experimental marbling on found maps, books, and printed propaganda. He collaborated with nature, sewage and pollution in the New York waterways (and recently the West Lake in Vietnam) has made the Newtown Creek his second studio. Working en plein air from a rowboat, Sto uses a process like paper marbling to print directly off of the water. Sto Len is based in Brooklyn with familial roots in Vietnam, his work incorporates these bonds connecting issues of both their history, environment, and politics.
Fade Away and Radiate, 2017, 38.5 x 28 cm (h x w), Oil paintspray paintenameldirt and debris
The Big Rip, 2018, 48 x 33 cm (h x w), Oil paintspray paintenameldirt and debris
