Bar Bao Commissioned Wall Art

This is artwork I was commissioned to do for Bar Bao, a restaurant from chef Michael Bao. The restaurant was located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and featured Vietnamese fusion cuisine. The original commission was for a large piece of wall art, with several other pieces to be places around the restaurant as table tops, match books, napkins, etc at a later date. The wall art (which is the only piece that made it all the way through to production before the restaurant was closed by the owners) was made up of various Communist Era Vietnamese propaganda posters, cleaned up to be inoffensive, printed onto wood, then slip up and arranged to resemble a giant bar code. The rest of the artwork that had yet to make it to production, are more recreated posters, cleaned up to be inoffensive.

Commissioned Art Work
Bar Bao Restaurant

This is artwork I was commissioned to do for Bar Bao, a restaurant from chef Michael Bao. The restaurant was located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and featured Vietnamese fusion cuisine. The original commission was for a large piece of wall art, with several other pieces to be places around the restaurant as table tops, match books, napkins, etc at a later date. The wall art (which is the only piece that made it all the way through to production before the restaurant was closed by the owners) was made up of various Communist Era Vietnamese propaganda posters, cleaned up to be inoffensive, printed onto wood, then split up and arranged to resemble a giant bar code. The rest of the artwork that had yet to make it to production, are more recreated posters, cleaned up to be inoffensive.

The full, completed center piece.

Large Section of the finished hanging art.

Close-up of art.

Further close-up.

One of the recreated propaganda posters.

Another poster.

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