Natural Born Hippie

Details

Tam Van Tran (B. 1966)
Natural Born Hippie
acrylic, beetroot juice, glue, aluminium foil, staples and coloured pencil on paper
80 x 69in. (203.2 x 175.3cm.)
Executed in 2005

Provenance

Cohan and Leslie, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.

Exhibited

New York, Cohan and Leslie, Entering the City of Omniscience, 2005.

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Lot Essay

Multimedia artist Tam Van Tram is known for his use of non-traditional materials to make his ebullient abstract paintings and drawings. In the case of Natural Born Hippie he has made use of beet juice alongside more conventional mediums of gouache and coloured pencil. This interjection of a natural material seems to be referenced in the joking title of the piece, which, in addition to its physical composition, also suggests the identity of both the work’s maker and its possible subject-matter.

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