Christine Nguyen
dal 25/1/2008 al 29/2/2008
Segnalato da
25/1/2008
Christine Nguyen
Michael Kohn Gallery (old location), Los Angeles
Nguyen's practice combines drawing with photography to create hidden worlds influenced by her personal memories, landscape imagery, and visions. She creates large-scale installations, engulfing the viewer into an otherworldly vortex that fluctuates between representation and abstraction.
Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by emerging
Los Angeles-based artist Christine Nguyen. Nguyen's unique practice combines drawing
with photography to create extraordinary, hidden worlds influenced by her personal
memories, landscape imagery, and imagined visions. Using a variety of media and a
series of photographic processes, Nguyen creates fantastical, large-scale
installations, engulfing the viewer into an otherworldly vortex that fluctuates
between representation and abstraction.
Nguyen's installations propose an eco-conscious atmosphere that often features
imaginary creatures inhabiting a murky, sea-like environment made up of trees,
flowers, ephemeral organisms, and crystalline particles. The co-inhabitants
socialize, cross-pollinate information and distribute resources amongst their
recycled community. A recent drawing featured a giant botanical-like squid
swallowing a whale-shaped universe made up of bionetworks and miniature cities.
Nguyen's multilayered structures speak of profound entities that exist outside the
ecosphere of human discord and the mysterious ethers that seem to stretch from
beyond earth's permeable atmosphere. Nguyen sets a panorama of nebular expanse,
slippery time, and infinite spectral light that could be perceived only in the
immeasurable depths of a dream void or through interstellar outer space.
Christine Nguyen has been featured in solo exhibitions at UCLA Hammer Museum (2006)
and 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles (2006). Group exhibitions include Uneasy Angel, Monika
Sprueth Philomene Magers, Munich, (2007); Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, APA
Institute, New York University (2007); Beyond- Photography: Photography in
Contemporary Art, Armory Center For the Arts Pasadena, CA (2007); Taste, Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (2007); and Oscene, Laguna Museum of Art,
Laguna Beach, CA (2004). In 2006, Ngyuen received the first Contemporary Collectors
of Orange County Fellowship and in 2005 received a Professional Artist Fellowship by
the Public Corporation of the Arts, Long Beach.
Opening reception, Saturday, January 26, 6-8 p.m.
Michael Kohn Gallery
8071 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles