Teo Nguyen | Under the Northern Skies

Teo Nguyen | Under the Northern Skies

Burnet presents Under the Northern Skies, featuring a selection of landscape paintings by Teo Nguyen.

Photo-realist painter, Teo Nguyen, creates large scale paintings that capture the vast space, boundless fields,  big skies, and chilling isolation distinctive to the region. 

"These artworks are an interpretation of what I feel and see; moments in which we are alone even as we are  connected to each other, in our aloneness. I hope that my work will create for the viewer that moment as I see  it—no longer looking with eyes cast down but still not straight on either--when ordinary things become  remarkable and beautiful.” – Teo Nguyen 

About the Artist 

Teo Nguyen was born and raised in a fishing village in Vietnam, the son of a poet and a glass painter. Nguyen  moved to the United States when he was sixteen years old, and in his work, he takes into account both the  culture from his country of origin, as well as that of America: “There is beauty in the reverence that defines the  culture of my ancestors, but also in the brave and unapologetic curiosity of my adopted homeland.” His large scale paintings range from abstraction to photorealistic landscapes. He studied art and design at De Anza  College (Cupertino, CA); Fresno State University; and École des Beaux-Arts (Paris). He currently resides in  Minneapolis. Nguyen will ehibit his Viet Nam Peace Project in a solo exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of  Art starting July 30, 2022. 

Gallery hours

11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues-Sat and by appointment 

Image:  Teo Nguyen | Untitled | acrylic on vellum mounted to aluminum | 35.5 x 59.5 inches framed 


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