{"id":1971,"date":"2012-06-01T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:18:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:18:18","slug":"fridays-friends-8-nathan-lam-vuong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/fridays-friends-8-nathan-lam-vuong\/","title":{"rendered":"Fridays & Friends #8 – Nathan Lam Vuong"},"content":{"rendered":"

June is here, and it’s almost summer. Key word: almost<\/em>. While we’re not fully there yet, weather-wise, in Vancouver, for this month’s Fridays and Friends, I’m looking down towards Los Angeles for a little sunshine. I’ve featured his socks and shoes<\/a> on my blog before, so it was only a matter of time before you got to meet the artist and his work. So here is my dear friend and a fellow Love artist on the What’s Love Got To Do With It? <\/em>residency I attended last year, Nathan Lam Vuong.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Lam Vuong - My Date Blew Me Off, Gicl\u00e9e Print, 17 x 11 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roselina Hung:<\/strong>\u00a0How did we first meet?<\/em><\/p>\n

Nathan Lam Vuong:\u00a0<\/strong>We met at the Banff Centre but I wouldn’t really remember how we started talking. You were my studio neighbour.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Lam Vuong - Mau Nhuom Ben Thuong Hai (Blood-Dyed Wharfs of Shanghai), Karaoke Video Projection Installation & Performance, Mixed-Media Sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RH:<\/strong>\u00a0Tell me a bit about yourself…<\/em><\/p>\n

NLV:<\/strong>\u00a0I was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and grew up in Tampa, Florida.\u00a0 After going to University of Miami, I stayed for a bit, but then moved out to Los Angeles almost 3 years ago to attend CalArts for my Master’s.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Lam Vuong - Pew-Peww!, comic stand-ups, & laser pointers, 5'4" tall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RH:<\/strong>\u00a0Tell me about your work…<\/em><\/p>\n

NLV:<\/strong>\u00a0My work deals with a few subjects, from cultural identities, gender, longing, non-relationships, to dating and awkward situations. The pieces have existed as photographs, comic strips, watercolors, gouache, knittings (which I learned from Sarah Gotowka<\/a>), film, videos, installs, and performances. So no set mediums really. I think an issue that comes up a lot is ideas about waiting for someone to come and all the thoughts that come with it. I tend to use lots of pastels so I feel like my art is a mix between Martha Stewart Living and Nickelodeon Jr. I’m really interested in adapting essences of television shows and cartoons I grew up with and grafting that onto notions of longing and relationships.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Lam Vuong - Post-Ironic, Issue #7 comic strip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RH:<\/strong>\u00a0What are you currently working on?<\/em><\/p>\n

NLV:<\/strong>\u00a0I am currently working on gouache paintings of snapshots I took in Viet Nam of people traveling on motorbikes, which they refer to as Xe \u00d4m (Hugging Cars). This set of paintings will be in a show in two weeks at Abel Gutierrez’s Studio in Mid-City Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Lam Vuong - Xe \u00d4m, gouache on paper, 24 x 18 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RH:\u00a0<\/strong>Where can people find your work?<\/em><\/p>\n

NLV:<\/strong>\u00a0I aints gots nos facebooks: http:\/\/nailsbyasians.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n