Osi Audu

Abstract, sculptural, colorful artwork with strands of yarn piercing canvas

2023

Osi Audu Masked Head 16, 2021 Pastel and yarn on paper mounted on canvas 22 x 30.5 inches 55.9 x 77.5 cm OA005 The work of Nigerian-American artist Osi Audu focuses on the dualism o...

Kenny Nguyen Bloom No. 2, 2023 Hand-cut silk fabric, acrylic paint, canvas, mounted on wall 72 x 54 inches 183 x 137 cm KN025 Kenny Nguyen (b. 1990, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam) creates expansive, dimensional, mixed-media paintings that center on ideas of cultural identity, displacement and integration. Nguyen grew up on a coconut farm in a rural area near the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam. Despite having an established career in fashion design, he decided to join his family when they moved to the United States in 2010. Acclimating to an American way of life proved uneasy at first, especially with a language barrier that intensified feelings of alienation and isolation. Nguyen turned to art-making as a coping mechanism and as a means to express himself in a more universal language. The transition from design to art was a natural one and in 2015 Nguyen earned a BFA in painting from the University of North Carolina Charlotte, and subsequently established a studio in Charlotte. Drawing from his experience working with textiles, in particular, silk, a culturally significant material in Vietnam, Nguyen developed a distinctive technique to produce sensuous, three-dimensional works that he describes as “deconstructed paintings.” He begins by tearing...

Eye Above III, 2021, embroidery and crystals on hand dyed canvas, eye, yellow, blue, red, and orange. Hand signed by artist Certificate of Authenticity in...

Morph IV is an Abstract Expressionism painting made by mixed-media, such as the up-cycled yarn, ink and acrylic paint. I collected the off-cut fabric from the cutting table and yar...