Lanvi T. Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American artist based in Northern Virginia. An alumnus of Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, Nguyen has dedicated herself to documenting her environments both familiar and foreign, spending recent years photographing abroad in Asian South Pacific countries. Her work includes both micro-studies of objects and full-scale observations.
Nguyen believes that every image contains unspoken words that form a narrative or a conversation that renders her photographs like visual poetry. Her investigation of the physical world focuses less on what is seen through the lens of a camera, but more on what is made visible by it. All nature exists in a state of flux, so each image is unique in the compression or expansion of time, space, or surface.
Her newer work incorporates reinterpreted physical data taken from an image as a tool to depict the elements of time, space, energy, and emotion. The result is a playful dialogue between the intangible and the immaterial in solid forms. Her work process first requires thorough understanding of the big picture in order to deconstruct and compartmentalize the information, and then restructure those smaller components back into the whole.
Nguyen’s insatiable appetite for unearthing the obscured is what truly fuels her, and with over two decades of art-making under her belt, saying she loves what she does would be an understatement.
Whether through photography, painting, illustration, or other medium, hers is a life dedicated to deciphering the vast, enigmatic landscape grain by grain, and pixel by pixel in a state of wakefulness.
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You provide the inspiration, environment, theme, colors and medium, and witness the magic unfold as the artist interprets and creates a piece that you retain upon completion. Oil on canvas? A pile of trash and a hot glue gun? A truckload of bottle caps? Each experience is custom-packaged and priced to the client’s specifications and include all materials (yours or hers), travel and accommodations.
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