By Khang Pham-New
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Silhouette Embraced, by Khang Pham-New monumental abstract granite sculpture
Silhouette Embraced, monumental abstract granite sculpture by Khang Pham-New
honed and polished granite
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We first saw his sculptures when they were featured in an outdoor sculpture Biennale in Vancouver with many notable and established sculptors (like Magdalena Abakanowicz, Dennis Oppenheim, Albert Paley, Bill Reid, and Yoko Ono). His work stood out to us and we’ve represented Khang internationally ever since, exhibiting and placing his sculptures in public and private collections for the last 11 years. The response has been amazing. His abstract biomorphic shapes are contemplative and beautiful to view.
Khang Pham-New's sculptures are shaped by hand from solid blocks of granite. His sculptures, are fluid, elegant and full of motion.
Rather than realistic representations of things or people, Khang is passionate about biomorphic forms - abstract shapes that have the feeling of being something living. One look at his graceful, fluid works and it's apparent the sculptor is achieving that goal.
In choosing granite as his medium, so rigid and unforgiving, he did not carve out an easy path for himself. Its interlocking crystalline structure does not easily yield to the stonemason's mallet or the sculptor's chisel.
Khang carefully works out each sculpture's mathematical proportions so the piece is not only visually appealing, but physically balanced.
Throughout history, granite has been used for monuments intended to stand the test of time.
Born in Vietnam in 1968, the year of the Têt offensive, Khang knew conflict and war from his earliest years. One day, as he sat in his home in a village in south Vietnam, his uncle rushed in, told him to grab what he could carry and to come with him. The uncle had intended to take Khang's siblings with him, but a shift in the political winds meant that they had to get out in a hurry and join the thousands of other "boat people" who fled Vietnam in practically any vessel that would float and take them out of the chaos of Vietnam after the long war.
Khang was 11 when he made a journey that many of his fellow countrymen never survived. He and his uncle faced unspeakable privation and danger from rickety, over-crowded boats...
Category
2010s Contemporary Khang Pham-New Sculptures
