First Exhibition of Fall 2024 Semester Open Now at Reese Bullen Gallery
This is a press release from the Reese Bullen & Goudi’ni Native American Arts Galleries:
View of exhibition Double Vision – by Reese Bullen Gallery Staff
After trampling in the muddy rice fields of rural Vietnam then wandering supermarket aisles in the United States, Millian Pham received her BFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and her MFA in sculpture from the University of Florida. Currently based in Alabama, teaching in the College of Arts at Auburn University, we are overjoyed to have Millian’s body of work, Double Vision here at the Reese Bullen Gallery.
Artist and Educator Pham’s art practice uses personal and cultural signifiers of her native Vietnam and adopted America in the mediums of painting, printmaking, and installation. Pham states, “My art making is code switching. Each work experiments with the aesthetic codes and conceptual framework of multiple cultures, art mediums, and languages. I test out new ways to convey an idea through a pluralism of perspective by switching visual codes through juxtaposition and obfuscation.”
In a series of 8 new tapestries that are over 10 feet tall, creating a series of dividers in the Gallery space, Pham utilizes “ images and texts from my native Vietnamese with adopted American cultures using lustrous paint and other aesthetic references to lacquer art. I’m interested in highly abstracting these words to the point of near illegibility, hiding phrases, and presenting them as ambiguous visual puzzles. “
Millian Giang Pham will be in humboldt for a 2 day engagement with students and classes here at the Art + Film Department at Cal Poly Humboldt. With workshops for students, as well as a public Artist Talk Thursday September 26th at 5pm, at ArtB 101 across from the Reese Bullen Gallery during the Opening Reception.
Double Vision by Millian Giang Pham opens to the public on Thursday, September 19th, with an
Opening reception and Artist Talk Thursday September 26th, 4:30-6:30pm, in the Reese Bullen
Gallery. The exhibition will run through October 18th.
The exhibition Double Vision will run from September 19th through October 18th at the Reese Bullen Gallery. We will hold an Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Pham on Thursday September 26th from 4:30pm-6:30pm at the Reese Bullen Gallery, with light refreshments; and the Artist Talk starting at 5pm in the Lecture Hall, ArtB 101.
The Reese Bullen Gallery, named in honor of a founding professor of the Art Department, was established in 1970. The gallery is located in the Cal Poly Humboldt Art Building, at the intersection of B Street and Laurel Drive, directly across from the Van Duzer Theatre. The gallery is open Wednesday/Thursday 11pm-5pm, Friday 11am-3pm, Closed Saturday-Tuesday. Also open via appointment, please contact the Gallery Director at [email protected], or call 707-826-5818. Admission is free and all are welcome. For parking information, please visit humboldt.edu/parking.
More information on Millian Giang Pham’s artwork: https://altimablossom.net/
Give to Burden, 2022, acrylic paint and bead embroidery
Mediocre Advantage, 2023, acrylic paint and hand embroidery
Wear Down Water Sprout, 2023, acrylic paint on canvas




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