Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A wall-sized, colorful image of a towering dragon and phoenix in a Ho Chi Minh City amusement park is juxtaposed with that of a flip-flop-shod tourist photographing a downed Chinook helicopter mounted on a brick platform on a scantily forested hill.
It is not often that an art exhibition effortlessly, almost unintentionally, straddles realism and surrealism while exploring the current ramifications of an historic event and relates obliquely to a heated contemporary conversation.
"Multiple Entry Visa: To Vietnam and Back," at Silver Eye Center for Photography, is such a show.
The photographs were taken by Chicago resident Howard Henry Chen, who was born in Vietnam and moved to the United States with his family in 1975 when he was 3 -- "a few weeks before the tanks rolled in."
Chen, a Boston University journalism and political science graduate who's worked at several newspapers and recently earned an MFA, has been visiting Vietnam for half a dozen years. Before his first trip back, his parents contacted relatives with whom Chen hadn't been in touch for nearly 30 years. Loosely labeling them all "cousins," he now tours the country with them.
Read all about it here: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07028/756827-42.stm
and get more Information at: 412-431-1810 or www.silvereye.org.
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