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| Ophelia © Cuong Nguyen |
Name: Cuong Nguyen
Bio:
Growing up in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, Cuong was at a young age
earning extra money for his family by doing street portraits, and was accepted into
Saigon's Academy of Art while still in high school. He emigrated to the U.S. in
1991, where he earned a degree in illustration from San Jose State University
and established a successful career as an icon designer in Silicon Valley. He
began participating as an artist at public street painting festivals, creating
ephemeral artworks as large as 16' x 24' and soon established a reputation for
painting lifelike portraits on asphalt. This activity brought him back to the
studio to refine his techniques with more traditional media.
Cuong is a member of the Oil Painters of
America and the International Guild of Realism, as well as having been awarded
the distinction of Distinguished Pastellist with the Pastel Society of the West Coast. His work has appeared at
the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, California, and the Haggin Museum in
Stockton, California, as well as in both national and international
competitions exhibiting from coast to coast. Cuong won first place in the Portrait & Figure category of the Pastel 100 in 2013, and was featured in Artists & Illustrators Magazine - October Issue, 2013.
Cuong currently represented by John Pence Gallery in San Francisco, California.
Cuong currently represented by John Pence Gallery in San Francisco, California.
Medium: Pastel,
Oil.
Subjects:
Figurative; Still Life
Style:
Contemporary realism
Technique: Cuong
works in both oil paints and pastels, though casual viewers may at first have
trouble distinguishing the two media in Cuong's hands. Though he almost never
blends his strokes, Cuong achieves a level of detail and smoothness of
gradations that is unusual in pastel paintings
Navigation: This is an easy website to trawl for images. But until you
enlarge them I defy you to distinguish the medium!
Gallery: Painting; Drawing.
Image View: Images are presented
in sets of eight; they enlarge in a viewer, where they are labelled with medium
and dimension. They may be saved. Ophelia is 20 x 30 ins., 864 x 600, 77 KB.
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