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{mosimage } Born in Saigon, South Viet-Nam, Mai-Ly Pham came to the United States in 1975, along with the first wave of refugees. She began her training in Fine Art at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and Design in Portland, Oregon, where she was awarded the Henry Wentz Best Thesis Award and the C. S. Price Painting Prize. She continued her training in New York and obtained her M.F.A. at Columbia University. __________________________________________________________________________
In New York, she participated in a series of exhibitions called Window On White, where she did her installation work and was also selected for several environmental group shows in downtown New York. In the 80s, she was a founding member of WAVE gallery in St. Paul, MN and also a member of WARM gallery in Minneapolis, MN, where she regularly participated in the member's group exhibitions. Most recently, her paintings have appeared in the GRACE Gallery Annual Champagne Art Auctions and their Collector's Gallery in RestonTown Center, VA, the Rittenhouse Square Fine Art shows in Philadelphia and the Artomatic show in DC. Mai-Ly Pham currently resides in Great Falls, VA.
 Everything exists in duality, one finds it everywhere in nature. Instead of dwelling into the destructive and painful side of things, I focus on the bright side, the giving, growing, living side of nature. Light, one other aspect of nature, has always fascinated me. I am drawn to the way light changes the surrounding. It infuses different moods on the subjects; it changes the colors and space in which the subject exists. I present the above elements on canvas and the forms and colors take on their own rhythm. I painted what I would like to see and in the process, discovered what I have not foreseen. |
