# Do You Smell Fumes?

A figure stands with arms crossed, gas mask on, a single red flower at his head, electric green blazing behind him. The image lands instantly. Color, confrontation, presence. Tufted in acrylic yarn on cotton at 68 x 48 inches, the work fills a room. Up close the surface is unexpectedly soft, the dimensional yarn almost contradicting the severity of the image. Cedric began using his own likeness while teaching himself to tuft, and that honesty remains. A self portrait about the masks we wear while we are still figuring ourselves out.

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## Details

- **Price:** 5300.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Textile Art
- **Tags:** buy original art online, Cedric Vu, collector art, figurative art, San Francisco artist, self portrait, textile art, tufted art, wall art

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## Images

- Do You Smell Fumes – tufted acrylic yarn artwork by Cedric Vu at 68 by 48 inches with gas-masked self-portrait figure arms crossed and single red flower against electric green ground on cotton
- Do You Smell Fumes by Cedric Vu – detail of dimensional acrylic yarn tufting of gas mask and confrontational stance against electric green
- Do You Smell Fumes by Cedric Vu – full large tufted textile self portrait with red flower and electric green ground filling a room
- Do You Smell Fumes by Cedric Vu – close-up of tufted yarn surface softness contrasting with severity of crossed arms and gas mask image
- Do You Smell Fumes by Cedric Vu – artwork installed showing room-filling scale
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- Do You Smell Fumes?
- Do You Smell Fumes?

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 68"×48"
- **Artist Material:** Acrylic yarn on cotton
- **Artist Name:** Cedric Vu
- **About The Artist Link:** https://www.artscout.pro/collections/cedric-vu

### About The Artist Content

Cedric Vu (b. 1996) is a French-Vietnamese contemporary visual artist born and raised in San Jose, California. From 2014 to 2023, he lived in Los Angeles, where he studied filmmaking, worked as a dancer, and held a range of production roles in film and television.

In 2024, Vu returned to his hometown to establish a physical art practice rooted in creative authorship and independence. Teaching himself to tuft yarn, he began creating textile works - often self-portraits - using his own image out of practicality as he developed his technique in the medium. Though textiles have become the foundation of his emerging body of work, Vu continues to expand his practice with the intention of working across multiple mediums.

Since establishing his studio practice, Vu has exhibited at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, where he also serves as an Art Preparator. His work will be featured in the forthcoming 2027 group exhibition Echoes of Being at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Vu’s work has quickly captured the attention of collectors and admirers alike, including renowned stylist and image architect Law Roach, known for his collaborations with Zendaya, Céline Dion, and others.

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> Updated: 2026-08-28