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Aung Aung Taik
'Burmese Dancers', Large Modernist Oil, Myanmar, Rangoon, SFMA, SFAI, PFA

1981

$28,500
£21,640.73
€24,747.79
CA$39,818.63
A$44,287.01
CHF 23,125.30
MX$538,925.82
NOK 295,345.39
SEK 276,981.87
DKK 184,702.20
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Signed lower left, 'Aung Aung Taik' (Burmese, born 1948) and dated 1981. Exhibited: San Francisco Cultural Center, 1981. A major work by this celebrated Burmese Modernist. This substantial oil on canvas was first exhibited at the artist's inaugural one-man exhibition in the United States, held at the San Francisco Mission Cultural Center in 1981. A pioneer of modern art in Myanmar, Aung Aung Taik first attended the State Academy of Art in Rangoon where he studied under two of Burma's leading contemporary artists, U Ba Kyi and U Ngwe Gaing. Taik exhibited successfully throughout Burma and Japan in the 1960s however, as his work moved towards greater abstraction, the government put increasing pressure on him to conform to representational norms and confine himself to officially approved subject matter. Seeking greater artistic autonomy, Taik left Burma in 1972 and immigrated to the United States where he continued his studies in California at the San Francisco Art Institute. Taik has exhibited with success internationally, including in Japan, Brazil, Mexico and Burma and, in the United States, in Arizona, New York and California and elsewhere. On viewing his first one-man show at the San Francisco Mission Cultural Center in 1981, Tom Albright commented in the San Francisco Chronicle that Aung Aung’s paintings '...suggest some of the strange stage sets of Francis Bacon carried to a greater degree of abstraction…". After 30 years in the United States, Taik returned to Burma in 2001 to attend his first solo exhibition in his native land. He has since returned annually and holds both one-man shows and group shows in Rangoon and Mandalay. He also conducts art workshops and forums at the Htanyeiknyo Art Center in Mandalay and is a member of the modernist New Zero Art Group. Selected Exhibitions: * Group Show - a.Muse Gallery - San Francisco, California * 1964 State Annual Art Exhibition, Envoy Hall, Rangoon, Burma. * 1968 State Annual Art Exhibition, Jubilee Hall, Rangoon, Burma. * 1969 Private exhibition, sponsored by Pan American Airlines, Rangoon, Burma. * 1969 Exhibition sponsored by U.S. Embassy, Rangoon, Burma. * 1970 Expo '70, Osaka Trade Fair, Japan. * 1970 Exhibition of Burmese Paintings, Alliance Francaise Rangoon, Burma. * 1972 Annual Art Exhibition, Mandalay Town Hall, Mandalay, Burma. * 1972 Galleria Heller, San Francisco, California. * 1973 The Addison Greene Gallery, New York, New York. * 1974 The Metzer Krasnow Gallery, Scarsdale, New York. * 1977 Capricorn Asunder Gallery Group Show, San Francisco, California. * 1980 Fukuoka Konnichino, Bijujsuten, Japan. * 1981 One man show a~ Galleria Museo: Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, California. * 1987 Represented Myanmar at the National Poetry Week Festival, San Francisco, California. * 1988 Native Symbols: An Exhibition of Drawings on Ceramic Plates, M. Sanchez Gallery, San Francisco, California. * 1989 The Poet as Artist- Artist as Poet: An art exhibition sponsored by the National Poetry Association, San Francisco, California. * 1989 Represented Myanmar at the National Poetry Week Festival, San Francisco, California * 1990 Group show, Fort Mason Art center. * 1990 Represented Myanmar at the "Poetry from the Pacific Rim"-San Francisco, California. * 1990 Painted three 30x40 foot paintings for the National Poetry Association at Fort Mason-San Francisco, California * 1997 Pleasure of the Palettes-Group show-Phoenix Arizona. * 2001 One man show-Htan Yeik Nyo Art Center-Mandalay, Myanmar * 2004 Group show-Fresno Art Museum. * 2007 New Zero Group show-Beikthanoe Art Gallery, Yangon Myanmar. * 2008 Burma Now: Photo Show. -San Francisco Furniture Mart. * 2008 Group Show-Beikthanoe Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar. * 2009 Fresno Art Museum-One man show. * 2009 Asean Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Yangon, Myanmar. * 2009 Aung Aung Taik-Gustavo Rivera : Golda Art Space. * 2009 Artist in Residence in Yangon, Myanmar conducting workshops and seminars. * 2010 Installation Exhibition- Aung Aung Taik and Aye Ko- New Zero Art Space * 2010 From 64 to 71 exh, Hong Kong * 2011 Paper, Scissor and Glue- Bryant Street Gallery- Palo Alto Ca. * 2011 Poetry in the Garden-Solo Reading- UC Davis, Ca.[13] * 2011 Galaria de la Raza- San Francisco. * 2011 International Art Show for Peace, Zacatecas, Mexico.
  • Creator:
    Aung Aung Taik (1948)
  • Creation Year:
    1981
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 63 in (160.02 cm)Width: 88 in (223.52 cm)Depth: 1.75 in (4.45 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    minor marks, minor restoration; unframed (N.B. photograph of signature detail is included for clarity and has not been color corrected.).
  • Gallery Location:
    Santa Cruz, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3446677302

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