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Artist Statement:
Thu Nguyen
P.O. Box 918
Honokaa, HI 96727
425-322-3740
Email:
thu@thunguyenpaintings.com
Artist's Websites:
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Thu Nguyen is an American
realist with a modernist
vision. Her paintings are well
within the tradition of
American realism as defined by
artists such as Thomas Eakins
and Andrew Wyeth. Like these
artists, Nguyen looks at
America’s heart—its land and
its people—and describes the
beauty she finds in everyday
life. Her paintings celebrate
the underlying epic nature of
the commonplace and the
personal significance of the
extraordinary.
Thu was educated at the
California State Long Beach
University, where realist
principles must be grasped
before modernist ventures are
encouraged. She pushes the
boundaries of the realist
tradition with her
multilayered imagery. Life,
death, passage, memory, and
confrontation coexist easily
in her world. Thu and her
children are the cast of
characters that appear in her
dreamlike narrative works.
Although the scenes are set
around her mundane daily
activities in her island home
in Hawaii, or the surroundings
of her studio and ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
GRANTS:
Elizabeth Greenshields
Foundation, Montreal, Canada
Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
New York, New York
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EDUCATION:
B.F.A. in paintings,
California State University,
Long Beach, CA 1993
A. A. in paintings, Los
Angeles Valley College, Van
Nuys, CA 1990
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Artist Galleries:
Thu Nguyen's Paintings are
represented:
by an online art gallery at:
Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle,
WA
Taylor's Contemporanea, Hot
Springs, AR...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS:
Soundtransit, Seattle, WA
Seattle Arts Commission,
Seattle, WA
Eastern Oregon University, La
Grande, Oregon
Rockwell International World
Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA
Everett Train Station,
Everett, WA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
San Angelo Museum of Fine
Arts, San Angelo, Texas
University of Alaska Museum of
the North, Fairbanks, Alaska
Smithsonian ...
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Commissions:
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS:
Soundtransit, Seattle, WA
Seattle Arts Commission,
Seattle, WA
Eastern Oregon University, La
Grande, Oregon
Rockwell International World
Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA
Everett Train Station,
Everett, WA
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