Sobrevivir Community Quilt

Artist: Huynh, Phung

Date: 2021

Medium: Textile

Artwork Dimensions: 50 x 41 x 3 in.

County Department: Health Services

Artwork Site: Los Angeles General Medical Center

Supervisorial District: 1

Current Status: On view

About the Artwork: For the Coerced Sterilization Recognition project at the Los Angeles General Medical Center, artist Phung Huynh engaged with community members to create four quilts.&nbsp;Survivors and their families and people for whom this experience resonated, made each quilt block. This quilt represents a collective approach to healing through art and acknowledges and pays tribute to the survivors.<div><br /></div>Para el proyecto enfocado en la esterilizaci&oacute;n forzada que se tom&oacute; acabo en el condado de Los Angeles y el centro medico de USC, la ar tista Phung Huynh particip&oacute; en dialagos con miembros de la comunidad para produc&iacute;r cuatro edredones. Cada cuadro de los edredones fu&eacute; hecho por sobrevivientes y sus familiares y las personas para quienes esta experiencia les reson&oacute; hicieron cada cuadro de los edredones. Este edred&oacute;n representa un enfoque colectivo del proceso curativo a traves del arte y reconoce y rinde homenaje a los sobrevivientes.<div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Contributors include/ Contribuidores incluyen: Helen Adair, Cecilia Aguilar, Blanca Anderson, June Aoki, Armando W.M. Argandona, Norma Barcena, Olivia Beas, Linda Beaver, Yolanda Padilla Barela, Yolie Barrozo, Esmeralda Bobadilla, Marie Cantor, Melinda Cardona, Laura Ayala Clark, Magda Contreras, Jane Tenorio Coscarelli, Claudia Espinoza, Que Dang, Gloria Flores, Laura Fraga, Lucia Vigil Francis, Maria Franco, Mercedes Garcia, Pat Gomez, Maria Concepcion Gutierrez de Martin, Yvette Leon, Charlotte Lerchenmuller, Patricia Ann Lopez, Guadalupe Macias, Juana Mena, Gloria Molina, Maria Morales, Gina Obsenares, Betty Marina Palomino, Cecilia Provencio, Maria Reza, Diana Rivas, Olivia Rodriquez, Ellena Ruiz, Madeline Sherman, Sharon Swonger, Sergio Teran, Ana Trujillo, Yolanda Villegas, Stefani Williams, Tru Williams-Pierone, Joanna Zambrano, Evelyn Martinez Zapata.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>

About the Artist: Phung Huynh is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator whose practice includes drawing, painting, public art, and community engagement. Her work explores cultural perception and representation. Huynh challenges beauty standards by constructing images of the Asian female body vis-&agrave;vis plastic surgery to unpack how contemporary cosmetic surgery can whitewash cultural and racial identity. Her work of drawings on pink donut boxes explores the complexities of assimilation and cultural negotiation among Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees who have resettled in the United States. Phung Huynh has had solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills and the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including spaces such as the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She has also completed public art commissions for the Metro Orange Line, Metro Silver Line, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the Los Angeles General Medical Center through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. Phung Huynh is Professor of Art at Los Angeles Valley College where her focus is on serving disproportionately impacted students. She is Chair of the Public Art Commission for the city of South Pasadena and has served as Chair of the Community-Based Art/Prison Arts Collective Advisory Council, which advises a vital program that provides art courses and workshops to underserved communities and prisons. She completed undergraduate coursework at the University of Southern California, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with distinction from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and received her Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University.