NEW YORK.-Beginning November 5, The Drawing Center will present Persistent Vestiges: Drawing from the American-Vietnam War, a two-part exhibition that brings together work by Vietnamese and American artists from the war-era and the present day. The Drawing Center’s exhibition will be significant in its juxtaposition of artists from different generations who approach the subject of the war from various perspectives.

Persistent Vestiges features American artists actively involved in questioning the war, artists who traveled with the North Vietnamese Army during the war, and young Vietnamese-American artists who address the war and its aftermath. Working from a variety of sources, the artists use collage, montage, printing, weaving, embroidery, traditional pen and pencil drawing, and photographic techniques to capture their personal experiences and reflections on the war. In the main gallery, a site-specific work of hand-printed helicopters and victims by Nancy Spero (b. 1926) and photo-collages from the series Bringing the War Home (1967-1972) by Martha Rosler will be in dialogue with hand-woven photoworks on paper and embroidered drawings on linen by Dinh Q. Lê (b. 1968) and works drawn by light on leaves by Binh Danh (b. 1977). The Drawing Room at 40 Wooster Street will feature selections from Spero's War Series (1966-1970) and drawings from the frontlines of the war by Vietnamese artists Nguyen Cong Do, Nguyen Thu, Nguyen Van Da, Quang Tho, Truong Hieu, and Vu Giang Huong.