India Post News Service

PALO ALTO: Palo Alto's energetic and lively downtown is host to an even more vibrant and colorful art exhibition. John Tun Sein's first art exhibition in the US got off to a successful start on Friday, October 5 at the Aicon gallery on Bryant Street.

The Bay Area solo exhibition will be followed by another in New York. Prabhakar Kolte, with whom John has worked, was once quoted as saying, "I paint first and see later, rather than see first and paint later." Similarly, John says that he is driven by his art and his paintings.

Non-representational in nature, with no subject or other formal framework, his paintings reach out and have a vibrant and colorful impact on the viewer. Compelled to put brush to canvas by his muse, John says,' The Mystery of not knowing what I'm painting is Art to me". John's vivid palette bursts with color and is defined by small almost insignificant images.

Geometric lines are in juxtaposition with broad swatches of color- organically built up layer by vivid layer. Brought up in India where he stills works for a few months every year, John is Burmese. He is now settled in Germany where the Germans find him highly memorable- His middle name 'Tun' means 'to do' and his last name 'Sein' means 'to be'. This multifaceted life experience is visible in his rich and deeply profound canvases. To view the exhibition, please visit the Aicon Gallery.