BIO

The impaling of the skin, the mutation of the body, and the oozing of the wet and the slime, are visceral elements that Trang is attracted to and investigates in her work. Using the different media of sculpture, painting, photography, fashion, video, and performance, she investigates the feminine body under rupture, power, and anxiety.

Trang is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her background covers a variety of interests and experience including the study of Italian horror film, historical costume, and 19th century Gothic literature. In addition, she studied Classical Piano for 10 years at the Katherine Phi School of Music in Illinois, English and Philosophy for 2 years at the University of CA, Irvine, and finally Fashion at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles before changing to the study of Fine Arts where she graduated in 2002 from Otis with a BFA in Sculpture and New Genres.

Her work blurs the line between Fashion and Fine Arts by combining a hybrid that uses the body as a prosthetic means to bringing forth in the viewer the dichotomies of fear and curiosity, repulsion and attraction, and sex and death. Trang’s sculptures, paintings, and performances/fashion shows have been exhibited primarily in Los Angeles. She has also contributed her work to film through production design and writing.

Trang is currently anticipating a grant from the Caucus Foundation to complete her first short film that she has co-written and will co-direct with a fellow collegue NYC filmmaker. The film production is already in progress and is scheduled to shoot in March of 2004.

She is also a co-owner of her own clothing line called “We are Lucid Dreaming.” The clothing line at the moment is a cut-to-order Couture line that caters to a private distributor. However, she is currently working towards launching this line to be debuted in stores in Los Angeles, New York City, Tokyo, and London for Spring 2004.

Websites for her work and her clothing line is currently under construction but will be viewable in early 2004.

Work and Exhibitions:

Fashion Design, We are Lucid Dreaming, clothing line, Los Angeles, 2003.
Production Design, Golem, Short Film, Los Angeles, 2002.
Senior Thesis Show, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2002.
Base, Group Show, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2002.
The Indulgent Fashion Show, The Latch Gallery, Los Angeles, 2002.
Musement Park, Performance Group Show, The Latch Gallery, Los Angeles, 2002.
Art Direction for Editorial Photography, Toni and Guy, Long Beach, 2002.
Danse Macabre, Solo Performance, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, 2001.
No Big Deal, Group Show, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2001.
Group Show, The Smell, Los Angeles, 2001.

Press:

“LA’s Top Ten Pick of the Week” The New Times, March 2002.
On air interview with T.E. Lee for “Spit,” KUCI 88.9 FM in Irvine, October 2001.