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‘ve been showing Christine Nguyen since she was knee high to a baby bear. The scale of her work has ruined me, made me a big painting, big installation lover. She’s doing great stuff, really getting her work out there, including a recent Hammer Project and just took part in a big group show of LA Artists in Munich, Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles.
Christine’s work has always been the perfect dream of the merge of drawing and photographic process. She’s also done some amazing drawings on mylar, without any photo work, and they’re just as strong without the novelty of her technique. It’s hard to explain to people, but the results speak for themselves. Her works are dynamic, like panoramic snapshots from another dimension. They’re fantastic in a way that calls to mind the experimental animation of the 60′s and 70′s, when artists seemed to have less inhibitions (probably due to all the drugs). I honestly don’t know where or how she develops her imagery from – it’s as if there’s some well that she has access to, and that we don’t.
Anyways, I’m literally hopping from place to place almost all week, and only have a few minutes to gush about how much I like Chirstine’s work. The show is at Andrew Shire and it’s called Transit by Ion. The opening is Saturday, October 20, 6-9 PM, at Andrew Shire Gallery.
At top – Christine in front of a large-scale piece that she installed at The Armory for the show Beyond Image: Photography in Contemporary Art.
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i loved that installation at the hammer.