Image courtesy of the artist
Nhớ by Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn will be on view from May 3-30 at New City Arts’ Welcome Gallery. Growing from Phượng-Duyên’s recent work, Nowhere, this exhibition will feature an all-consuming, immersive installation made of sewn and embroidered structures that visitors for visitors to weave through.
New City Arts' Welcome Gallery
114 3rd St. NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902
First Fridays
May 3 from 5-7:30PM; Artist talk at 6PM.
Free and open to the public. All ages welcome.
Gallery Hours
Wednesday-Saturday from 10AM-5PM
Exhibition Events
New City Arts & Crafts | May 24 at 10AM
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This exhibition is supported by the Community Endowment Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation and the Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation.
Exhibition Statement (courtesy of the artist)
Constructed from deceptively flimsy-looking forms and fueled by fragmented memories, Nhớ is my attempt to rebuild and to heal. The windows and doorways of my childhood home, along with the outlines of apartment complexes, schools, and markets that populate my homeland are simplified into these interconnecting gridded, threadbare panels. They are not perfect replications of a house or any specific structure, but abstract forms that convey loss and longing.
You are invited to navigate this reconstructed landscape and its impermanent, permutable walls with me, arm in arm, and share in the hope of knowing that there is a place for all of us no matter what our story is.
About the Artist (courtesy of the artist)
Photo by Sarah Cramer Shields
Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-American visual artist working primarily with fibers in her adopted hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in Vietnam and moved to the US with her family as a teenager, Nguyễn’s experiences and perspective as an immigrant inform and enrich her work. She sews and embroiders threadbare, abstracted structures and forms. To Nguyễn, abstraction is a tool to process and articulate - a formal construct upon which she restructures her stories. It is an act of obscuring the painful details, distilling the most beautiful aspects, and transforming them into tangible objects.
Located at 114 3rd St. NE on Charlottesville’s downtown pedestrian mall, New City Arts’ Welcome Gallery supports artists who live in the Charlottesville area. Welcome Gallery exhibitions and programs are made possible by generous sponsors, donors, and grants. Interested in sponsoring an exhibition? Connect with us!