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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

December 5 - March 16, 2009

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http://www.ybca.org/
(415) 978-2700

701 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103

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ssitkim talking to the dead - Soon-Mi Yoo - 2004 - courtesy of the artist

OPENING NIGHT PARTY: Friday, Dec 5, 8–11 pm » A rare opportunity to view cutting-edge contemporary art by critically acclaimed artists from three countries whose works explore representations of modernity and popular culture, transPOP features 16 artists from Vietnam and Korea and their respective diasporas in the United States. In recognizing the vitality of art in addressing cultural, social and political issues, the exhibition signals unprecedented engagement with the rich historic and contemporary relationship between Korea, Vietnam and the United States. transPOP Exhibition Sponsors: Korea Foundation, Marsyas Fund of the Tides Foundation, Educational and Community. Additional support provided by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN) and the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA). Outreach programs for transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix is supported in part by the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.

Building - Nguyen-Manh-Hung - 2004 - courtesy The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York

Bubble Double Bazooka - Tiffany Chung - 2005 - courtesy of the artist