A gifted painter with a penchant for subtle but nonetheless critical narrative, Phong offers more than a cursory look into Vietnamese/American history. To viewers who take the time to decode her multi-faceted work, she grants a glimpse into a soul that underwent a radical transformation beginning with her journey by boat that landed her in refugee camps in the Philippines and Malaysia and then eventually to the United States, where she fulfilled her goal to become an artist. In this she tells her own story as well as that of many of her compatriots. - See more at: http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&aID=1144#sthash.QbwahDQy.dpuf