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Title: Chinatown Lights Up 

Medium: Print 

Dimension: 12 x 18 inch 

autographed by the Artist. 

Item Special Note

In Ottawa, the grand arch welcomes you to a small section of the city called Chinatown. It's home to wonderful Asian restaurants, businesses and incredible people. For the past few years, Chinatown has been hosting a night market which is a food festival allowing people and entertainment to take over the streets. This painting was inspired by the Chinatown  Night Market in Ottawa Canada. 

Bio: https://www.annguyenartist.com/bio#lyWBVn

An Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian Artist, Educator and Community Builder who specializes in acrylic paintings and curating/managing art events. Over the years she has demonstrated a commitment to creating art and to growing the Ottawa arts community. An uses vibrant colours and intricate composition to illustrate the rhythms and joys of modern life. Inspired by her travels and love of music, her geometric contemporary paintings capture musical concepts of cadence and rhythm in the movement of their fluid lines and shifting shapes. Simple moments of modern life are transformed in her paintings via the convergence of music and culture, while thematic elements of jazz and urban architecture intermingle throughout her work. An hopes that her art serves as an escape and source of happiness. She is motivated by a desire to be a female voice in the world of jazz culture, and hopes that her whimsical landscapes can celebrate the explorer in all of us.

Born in Saigon, Vietnam, An was part of Canada's response to the refugee crisis post-Vietnam War. She studied fine arts at the University of Waterloo, and was tutored by Guatemalan artist Sergio A. Solorzano. She has also been mentored by Canadian Chinese Artist Don Kwan, and Former Ottawa Public Arts Administrator/Photographer Mike Taylor through the Ottawa Arts Network Mentorship Program. Her paintings have been featured in galleries, festivals, public venues and on music album covers throughout Canada and internationally. She enjoys painting live at special events and teaches art at the Wellington West Retirement Community Centre where she is the Artist in Residence. In 2021, she was awarded the Articipate Grant and co-curated “See Me Now” with Ottawa Black Art Kollective. As an Asian Canadian she uses her art to reflect on her immigrant identity and playfully rediscovers the world through her children’s eyes.