Christine Nguyen, Cosmic Reverberations, 2023, cyanotype, salt crystals, pastels, graphite, and colored pencil on stretched cotton, 62 x 60 in. (157.5 x 152.4 cm), total
Christine Nguyen was born and raised in California and currently resides in Aurora, CO and also works in Long Beach, CA. She is a lover of animals, plants, and nature.
Her work draws upon the imagery of nature, the sciences, and the cosmos but is not limited to a conventional reading of these realms. It imagines that the depths of the ocean reach into outer space, that through an organic prism, vision can fluctuate between the micro- and macroscopic. Nguyen's practice is devoted to the natural world and its curiosities, a place that she finds meditative and complex but also mysterious. Nguyen is drawn to 19th century Naturalists who made direct connections were made between the microcosmic earth and the macrocosmic celestial space.