LOC Huynh

Based on both personal memory and everyday human behavior, Loc Huynh’s pieces explore themes ranging from vapid consumption to first generation Vietnamese American childhood experiences. Huynh employs an exaggerated pop cultural aesthetic to convey situations that feel simultaneously familiar and alien.

Huynh’s work draws influence from his childhood, mainstream imagery of commercial media, and niche graphics affiliated with Asian American immigrant cultures. The use of exaggeration and abstraction highlights the awkwardness of human behavior. The subjects of his painting are generic enough to be anyone, but familiar enough to be recognized as specific individuals. Even in self-portraits, Huynh’s own image can be interpreted as anybody. The interactions he portrays between people, though ungraceful, are moments of vulnerability to which anyone can relate.