{"id":184,"date":"2022-09-22T05:08:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T05:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=184"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:09:39","slug":"angela-anh-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/artist\/angela-anh-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Anh Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"g-1w1nnn1\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 section-g-1w1nnn1 gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Angela Anh Nguyen (she\/her) is a Los Angeles based fiber artist whose work satirizes the mayhem of America\u2019s culture wars. Working primarily in gun-tufted textiles, Nguyen\u2019s art narrates the contemporary relationship Americans share with popular culture\u2014with 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pile_height\/\">@pile_height<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/angelaanhnguyen.com\">angelaanhnguyen.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"g-d5ffr46\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 section-g-d5ffr46 gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<div aria-label=\"Carousel Gallery\" class=\"wp-block-coblocks-gallery-carousel alignfull\"><div class=\"coblocks-gallery-carousel-swiper-container is-cropped coblocks-gallery has-caption-style-dark\"><div class=\"has-carousel has-carousel-xlrg swiper-container has-aligned-cells has-nav-d26e1efe\" 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data-link=\"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/artist\/anh-nguyen\/drone-2-angela-nguyen\/\" src=\"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Drone-2-Angela-Nguyen-1024x682.jpg\" style=\"height:100%;width:100%\"\/><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chicken, 2024<\/em><br>Ink, wool, and nails on monks cloth<br>42 x 62 in.<br>Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Drone, 2024<\/em><br>Ink, wool, and nails on monks cloth<br>52 x 38 in.<br>Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both <em>Chicken<\/em> and <em>Drone<\/em> 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chicken<\/em> was inspired by a stint I had reading mass shooting manifestos. There are bits and pieces from Eliot Rodger&#8217;s manifesto as well as Christopher Dorner&#8217;s. There is a rotten tomatoes review on Oliver Stone&#8217;s Natural Born Killers (a film about guns and violence). Images of distorted mass shooters are throughout.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Drone<\/em> 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?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/184\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}