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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:
Coming Soon!
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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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Artist Statement for Thu Nguyen
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Thu Nguyen
P.O. Box 918
Honokaa, HI 96727
425-322-3740
Email: thu@thunguyenpaintings.com
Artist's Websites:
http://www.thunguyenpaintings.com
http://www.artid.com/members/thunguyen
http://www.youtube.com/ThuNguyenPaintings
http://thu-nguyen.artistwebsites.com/index.html
http://www.facebook.com/ThuNguyenPaintings
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 residence in the U S mainland, they represent a deeper, mythical concept of the archetypal, universal home.
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