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My paintings reflected a multicultural perspective, brought together the oriental undertone and abstraction. The challenge during the whole process of creating the artwork is making it visually attractive without losing a sense of its cultural specificity. Beneath what we see on each of the painting surfaces, layers that are overlaid by another layer, parts that are destroyed and covered. As many of untold stories, they become invisible. In spite of images that are recognizable to the eyes, as someone might see in my painting a melted landscape, a wave, a map, trees or rocks, that are just appearances. I think it's more important to look for intangible elements that helped to pervade those visual representations. The feeling of emptiness and alienness through gaps, patterns of absence, in-between spaces that are struggling to reconnect within the whole composition. The invisible forces that fight against gravity and take control of my painting's movement. At the heart of my artwork, I believe, is the attempt to harmonize the contradiction between past and present, invisible and visible, East and West. My desire to use the power of visual language transcends national and cultural boundaries.
Original Created:2017
Subjects:Abstract
Materials:CanvasSoft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Mediums:OilAcrylicWatercolorInk
Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:16 W x 12 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:17.75 W x 13.75 H x 1.25 D in
Frame:White
Canvas Wrap:Black Canvas
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Kenny Nguyen creates what he calls “deconstructed paintings”, large, bold works that are comprised of hundreds of silk strips, which he cuts, paints, and meticulously applies onto canvas. The pieces may be hung in different iterations: sculpturally on the wall with undulations or flat, stretched like a painting on bars or behind glass. Born in Vietnam, Kenny moved to the states in 2010. After art school, he spent his early career in fashion. Working with silk has ties for the artist not only to dressmaking and patterns, but also long-standing associations to the material through his culture. The idea of cutting a fabric revered for its symbol of wealth, its beauty and delicacy in clothing, and its century-long ties to trade and status in Asia was a breakthrough for Nguyen. By taking something from tradition and reconstructing it, he was maintaining an association with his past while also making it is own. The process itself like the artist himself, a hybrid, blending cultures, and ideas, bringing to light the idea how identity is constantly changing over time, creating beauty and versatility. His works have been exhibited at Sejong Museum of Art, Czong Institue for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, LaGrange Art Museum, GA, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art FL, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art TX, Capitol Hill Building D.C., Katzen Art Center at the American University D.C., Orange County Center for Contemporary Art CA, Art Market San Francisco, Seattle Art Fair, Frieze LA. In 2016, Nguyen received an Excellence Asia Contemporary Young Artist Award from Sejong Museum of Art. He was also awarded Artist Residency Fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Chicago, IL, The Hambidge Center, GA, Vermont Studio Center, VT, Gil Artist Residency, Akureyri, Iceland, Château d’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France, AIR Guidiguada Gran Canaria, Spain.
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