Angela Anh Nguyen
Angela Anh Nguyen (she/her) is a Los Angeles based fiber artist whose work satirizes the mayhem of America’s culture wars. Working primarily in gun-tufted textiles, Nguyen’s art narrates the contemporary relationship Americans share with popular culture—with its subject matters dictating discourse while its existence hardly momentary. Her pieces are a tongue-in-cheek ode to the convoluted rhythm of life, often exaggerated and never serious on the surface.
Angela is a textile artist. She received a B.A. in Communication from UCLA and an M.A. in Communication from CSULA. She is attending USC for her M.F.A.
Work Description
Chicken, 2024
Ink, wool, and nails on monks cloth
42 x 62 in.
Courtesy of the artist
Drone, 2024
Ink, wool, and nails on monks cloth
52 x 38 in.
Courtesy of the artist
Both Chicken and Drone are pieces that document the process of tufting structurally, from the nails to the frame to the monks cloth and ink. Each of these pieces carry its own narrative within the content of the works.
Chicken was inspired by a stint I had reading mass shooting manifestos. There are bits and pieces from Eliot Rodger’s manifesto as well as Christopher Dorner’s. There is a rotten tomatoes review on Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (a film about guns and violence). Images of distorted mass shooters are throughout.
Drone was inspired the experience of media consumption. How is it that you can experience pain of the American Military Industrial Complex and Tiktok trends all within one minute?