We are privileged to feature our first nationally recognized artist to the Psalm Visual Arts Gallery. In 2005, the Psalm Visual Arts Gallery was gifted a collection of art by Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lemme of Sacramento, California. A full collection totaling over two dozen art pieces is in storage and is being documented, and in some cases, cleaned and restored. As time allows, we will feature other portions of the collection.

This show features the Vietnamese artist known simply as Lebadang. It contains some signed individual prints as well as signed prints and title panels of a series of art called the 10 Horse Suite.

Lebadang
In his work Lebadang fuses the cultural interests of the Orient and Europe, creating graceful imagery in infinite variations of line, shape, and color. He is recognized as an accomplished printmaker, having worked extensively in the media of etching, lithography and serigraphy. “Lebadangraphy” is his invention whereby he achieves harmony with a minimum of colors, using the same screens several times. His work is held by the Rockefeller Collection and the Phoenix Art Museum, among others.

Lebadang was born in Vietnam in 1922 and immigrated to France in 1939, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. He received numerous prizes for his paintings, drawings and sculpture. In 1950, his first one-man exhibition in Paris was highly praised by the French press. Over the next three decades there were many important exhibits of his works throughout France and Germany. Lebadang came to the attention of Americans in 1966 when the Cincinnati Art Museum hosted the first one-man exhibition of his paintings in the United States.

Lebadang’s paintings and graphics are in many important public and private collections, including the University Art Gallery, Lund, Sweden; Rockefeller Collection, New York; Loo Collection, Tokyo; Phoenix Art Museum; Ruud Lighting, Inc.; Lloyd Baretz Enterprises; Behavioral Medicine Northwest Building, Seattle.