CSN FINE ARTS GALLERY EXHIBITION Sarah Nguyen: Equinox

Friday, September 27, 2024, through Saturday, November 30, 2024

Virtual Artist Talk: Tuesday, October 1

North Las Vegas Campus – Fine Arts Gallery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host an exhibition of mixed media, light, and shadow by Columbia, Missouri-based artist and curator, Sarah Nguyen. Sarah Nguyen: Equinox will open on Friday, September 27, 2024, and will run through Saturday, November 30, 2024, in the Fine Arts Gallery on the North Las Vegas Campus of the College of Southern Nevada. A special Virtual Artist Talk will take place on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, starting at 6 p.m.

Sarah Nguyen received her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is a mixed media artist, working primarily with paper. Storytelling is central to her hand-cut-fiber panels and paintings. Nguyen’s work has appeared in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions and publications. Her work has been part of exhibitions in museums and festivals including (but not limited to) Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum of Asian Pacific Experience, the Daum Museum, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Grounds and Museum, the Truman Museum, Cheekwood Estates & Gardens, and Kansas City’s 2018 Open Spaces. Nguyen has taken part in several artist residencies from around the world as a visiting artist and teacher including Serbia, Bulgaria, Japan, France, and the United States. She is the Art Installations Curator for the True/False Film Fest.

Speaking of her work, Nguyen states, “Using folklore as the source of my artistic inspiration I mean to return the viewer temporarily to a state of childhood, dwelling in the senses, immersed in the images of stories, experiencing the primacy of the physical. Whether the viewer, when they turn away from the paper scrolls, seeks mental liberation, or sensory indulgence, is a matter of significance for them. I am less interested in directing their conclusions as I am in revealing them. The desired effect of this body of work upon the viewer is self-investigation.”

“Stories are one of the ways we create a sense of community,” she continues. “Artists have often turned to stories for subject matter, especially stories whose roots reach deep into their culture’s collective memory. These stories are why I create for a living, they feed the context and content of my work. I do not expect my work to discover new aspects of these stories but only to add the dialog of what is and to create a new way of looking at them.”

The CSN Fine Arts Gallery is free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The Fine Arts Gallery is located adjacent to the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre Lobby on the North Las Vegas campus located at 3200 E. Cheyenne Avenue, one mile East of I-15 North.

For more information, please call (702) 651-4146
http://www.csn.edu/artgallery



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