“Truong believes that artists are multidisciplinary by default. She impresses this upon her students and makes it particularly evident in her work. She combs through historic archives and delves into the Western art historical canon, unafraid to bring ideologies such as Manifest Destiny or Abstract Expressionism into her fold.”

The scale of this work is defiantly human, reflecting the artist’s stated desire to make a world without resorting to the easy grandiosity of immense canvases.

From DNA to human emotions, “Speculative Portraits” explores how contemporary artists are drawing from technology and scientific research to expand on ideas of portraiture and identity.

    January 27, 2022 in Artists Elisa D’Arrigo was born and raised in The Bronx, NY where she found early inspiration in the Bronx 1950s visual culture of curvaceous cars, brash comics, extreme hairstyles, and evocatively wrapped fig trees. In 1975 she received a BFA in ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. She continued working […]