Fulcrum Gallery: MONUMENT - Troy Gua

Fulcrum Gallery Presents:

MONUMENT - Troy Gua

January 21^st - March 13^th

Opening Reception Thursday January 21^st 6-9 pm

Artist Talk / Closing Reception Thursday February 18^th 6 pm

Troy Gua is a product of the 1970/80's shiny American Dream. His multi-faceted work embodies a glossy immortality and deceptive complexity that encourages closer investigation.

Enter “Monument” : a response to the glossing over of reality specific to the United States' wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “This installation is my memorial to loss, but it is not an attempt to answer questions, because I don’t know that there are any answers. I’m not a soldier and I have never seen war. There are terrific horrors that our service men and women are experiencing that I can scarcely imagine. How do we reconcile these experiences? How do we grieve these losses?"

For more about Troy and his work, visit www.troygua.com

Fulcrum Gallery

1308 Martin Luther King Jr. Way

Tacoma, WA 98405

Thurs, Fri & Sat 12-6 pm

T 253 250 0520

www.fulcrumtacoma.com

Troy Gua exhibition “Do You See Me?”

Seattle artist Troy Gua exhibition “Do You See Me?” opening Thursday, July 9th at 6:00 p.m at Vermillion. Following a successful run at Seattle Art Museum Sales and Rental Gallery and a well-received showing at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Troy switches gears and takes a break from his popular ‘Pop Hybrid’ series to present a solo show of new work inspired by the online social networking phenomenon, the human desire for validation and his own forthright pursuit of notoriety

Troy’s statement for ‘Do You See Me?’: “Viral fame. Digital personas. Social networking obsessions. What we choose to see, what we choose to show and the universal human need for validation. This man’s personal quest for recognition and esteem. I’m Troy Gua. Do you see me?

Vermillion is located in Seattle's Capitol Hill's neighborhood at 1508 11th Avenue and is open Tuesday through Sunday, 4pm until late.

TROY GUA's Pop Hybrids:

This popular series of meticulously hand-painted work deals with pop iconography, ironic duality and satirical juxtapositions. Portraying famous and infamous cultural icons inter-layered with one another, these resin coated acrylic paintings challenge the viewer to visually decipher the image while making the sardonic, metaphorical and sometimes philosophical connections within.

More information is avaialble at www.troygua.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/troygua/sets/72157617861676929/