Tan Mu

Personal and Historical Events

A Sunday Afternoon in the Park , 2022 Oil on linen 61 x 76 cm (24 x 30 in) A Sunday Afternoon in the Park  (2022) creates a conversation around utopic ideologies of control and function. It documents the current issues of today's experience

Yoga Isolation , 2022 Oil on linen 91 x 102 cm (36 x 40 in) Yoga Isolation  (2022) interprets people participating in an outdoor yoga class during the Covid-19 pandemic. Shades are used to paint the image by extracting color, creating an ot

Minneapolis,  2020 Oil on linen 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in) Minneapolis  explores a segment of the artist's journey through the COVID-19 pandemic and societal protests, capturing the dual surreal experiences of isolation and public out

Bikini Atoll,  2020 Oil on linen 41 x 51 cm (16 x 20 inches） On 1 July 1946, the United States conducted its first nuclear test after World War II. In the painting  Bikini Atoll  (2020), the mushroom cloud created by the explosion s

TRINITY TESTING , 2020 Oil on linen In 7 parts, each: 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in) Overall: 28 x 252 cm (11 x 98 in) The loud event of Trinity testing in New Mexico in 1945 declared the advent of the “Atomic Age.” The nuclear bombs — variously cheered,

Gulf of Mexico , 2021 Oil on linen 31 x 61 cm (12 x 24 in) Gulf of Mexico  (2021) depicts the bright flames, dubbed the “eye of fire,” that erupted from an underwater gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico on July 3, 2021. The leak caused a whirling

Eruption , 2022 Oil on linen 76 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in) Hung Tonga-Hung Ha'apai, a submarine volcano located in the southern Pacific Ocean, began erupting on December 20th, 2021. Four weeks later, on January 15th, 2022, the enormous explosion recorde

Philadelphia , 2020 Oil on linen 41 x 51 cm (16 x 20 in) This painting expresses the dual journey through the COVID-19 pandemic and societal protests, capturing the surreal experience of isolation on one side and people voicing their demands in th

Containers , 2021 Oil on linen 76 x 91 cm (30 x 36 in） Containers  (2021) is a painting based on a photograph taken by the artist along a highway in New Jersey. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, global supply chains and shipments

Vision , 2020 Oil on linen In 2 parts, each: 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in) Overall: 28 x 72 cm (11 x 28 in) Vision  (2020) guides the viewer's attention to experience the focusing process of the human eye. The paintings are bordered in black with

Touch , 2022 Oil on linen 76 x 76 cm (30 x 30 in)

Isolation , 2020 Oil on linen 51 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in） During the artist's time in New York City amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she witnessed the profound transformation of the cityscape. The painting  Isolation  (2020) depicts the construct

Antimony, 2020 Oil on linen 41 x 51 cm (16 x 20 in) In the 17th century, the two disciplines of alchemy and chemistry were studied together because of the lack of scientific discovery. Alchemists would correspond various metals with the planets i

The splash of a drop 1 , 2022 Oil on linen In 6 parts, each: 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in) Overall: 28 x 216 cm (11 x 84 in) In the 1895 photographic series of the same title, Arthur Mason Worthington, an English physicist known for pioneering technique

Thermal Imaging , 2022 Oil on linen 76 x 76 cm (30 x 30 in) Thermal Imaging  (2022) is a painting of a thermal imaging camera during the Covid pandemic at an airport security check. Two pedestrians in the center of the image wear masks, whil

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