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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Trong Gia Nguyen, Father, circa 1955, 2004

Trong Gia Nguyen

Father, circa 1955, 2004
Oil pastel on canvas
38 x 27 inches
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Sourced from old family photographs, the paintings depict coloring book images that have been filled in but with the black outlines removed, suggesting the skewed ways in which we remember, shape, and colorize the past. Nguyen asks of the viewer to mentally redraw the missing lines, to give definition to this fuzz. Employing oil pastels, a medium that never fully dries, The Leavers reiterates how memory is organic and ever shifting.

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