Artist Hung Viet Nguyen created painting "THE GATE AT THE MELTING GLACIERS", inspired from Iceland trip in June 2024.
Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (152 x 122 cm)

GATE # 9
SACRED LANDSCAPE VI # 17
Oil on canvas, 84 x 48 inches (213 x 122 cm)
2023

GATE # 3
SACRED LANDSCAPE VI # 11
Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (152 x 122 cm)
2023

The favorite moments/places/scenes I caught through point&shot camera while traveling. From the photo images, I have created the pictures via pen and watercolor on wood panels. I use two type varnishes: aging and crackling for classic looking. At the last stage, to protect the artwork: I seal the artwork surface by many layers of clear medium painting coats and varnishes.
Capturing the quick image by a small camera in few seconds, and spending many hours to draw and paint a picture; I have found the relationship between the places and myself. Amazing what art can do!
All mixed media on panel 8" x 10" (pencil, pen, color pencil, watercolor, UV coating, aging and crackles varnishes, oil paint, oil medium layers, varnishes on wood panel).

(2017 - present)

Artist Hung Viet Nguyen created Sacred Landscape VI #1
Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches (122 x 152 cm), August - September 2022

Artist Hung Viet Nguyen created painting Sacred Landscape V #58
Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122 cm), June - July 2022

Artist Hung Viet Nguyen painted Sacred Landscape V #36
Sacred Landscape V #33, oil on wood panel, 84 x 48 inches (213 x 122 cm), 2021

Artist Hung Viet Nguyen painted Sacred Landscape IV #15
Sacred Landscape IV #15, oil on canvas, 84 x 48 inches (213 x 122 cm), 2019

Artist Hung Viet Nguyen painted Ancient Pine #30
Ancient Pine #30, oil on wood panel, 48 x 84 inches (122 x 213 cm), 2021

I have visited the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest (Big Pine city, California) many times (summers 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017...). The trees grow between 9,800 and 11,000 feet (3000-3400m) above sea level. Many are well over 2,000 years old, and some of the oldest in the forest are dated at more than 4,000 years old.
(2015 - present)

Painting Ancient Pine Tree over my Self-portrait; My ego was nothing compared to the beauty of Nature.

Oil sketching directly on panel from a photo I took at Bristlecones Pine Forest.

Through many years, artist Hung Viet Nguyen has been hiking at the local beach Palos Verdes, then he processes the landscape into his unique oil painting.
Sacred Cove/Mindscape, oil on wood panels, Triptych 72 x 120 inches, 2013

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HUNG VIET NGUYEN - with Mat Gleason at Modern Art Blitz episode #97 part 4
Our interview with Los Angeles painter Hung Viet Nguyen...
LA Art Show February 2018

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Thanks vascam.org for the “Talk Art Series”. I’m honored to be included, here is my Talk in this video clip about 20’ in Vietnamese with English subtitles.

Reporter Dan Huynh of Nguoi Viet Daily News and artist Hung Viet Nguyen reported few art scenes at LA Art Show 2018

A short document about artist Hung Viet Nguyen and his nature inspiration toward his art by journalist/camera/photographer Dan Huynh of Nguoi Viet TV

I start with few rough sketches in order to find a good composition. Once I am satisfied, I manipulate the paint medium into forms, spaces and movement that I have planned. Although my painting process seems to have a constructed methodology, my artwork develops on its own accord and is independent of my will. I rarely control it because painting is a spiritual practice. It is a mystery that I do not dare try to explain.
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Mr. Quang Vien at VNTV (Viet News TV) in San Diego interviewed artist Hung Viet Nguyen about his art and the current art fair Art San Diego.

Ms Van Anh interviewed artist Hung Viet Nguyen after he had received the awards at San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) Biennial International Award Exhibitions (2013 & 2015)

Nguoi Viet TV interview artist-in-residence Hung Viet Nguyen by reporter Ngoc Lan, camera man Dan Huynh, photographer Thanh Nguyen at Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood.

Throughout the many years of hiking along the ocean coast, I noticed the interplay of the rocks and of the water, from observing the thunderous crash of the waves upon the rocks roared with the different sound, to the pebbles that glistened with water.

Ms Ysa Le interviewed artist Hung Viet Nguyen about the new series painting "SYMPHONY" exhibiting at Vien Dong Daily News in October, 2005.

Time-lapse recording seven days artists residency at Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA

Curator Ginger Van Hook PhotoJournal and Documentation Video at Los Angeles World Airports - "OUT OF THIN AIR" Terminal 1-Gate 2.
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