Ambedo: The Art of Tran Nguyen

by Trần Nguyên

Ambedo collects the very best paintings and drawings by Tran Nguyen completed from 2009 to 2018. It showcases her sensuous and personal work that was done for gallery exhibitions, as well as her advertising, book and editorial illustration projects completed as a freelance artist. Over 120 paintings are featured along with nearly a dozen preliminary sketches. An introduction by Tran opens the book, followed by her brief intimate commentary for each of her solo and group show chapters.

Tran’s paintings are created with a soft, delicate quality using colored pencil and acrylic on paper. She’s most known for her paintings of whimsical women and melancholic landscapes, which often possess an air of fantasy and surrealism.

Tran Nguyen is a fine artist and freelance illustrator currently based in Georgia. Born in Vietnam and raised in the States, she is fascinated by creating traditional paintings in the realms of fantasy and surrealism. Tran illustrates for magazines, books, product packaging, advertising and mural art. Her clients include Smithsonian magazine, Tiger Beer, the World Wildlife Fund and Amazon, and she has been showcased in galleries across the world.

Genres: Art, Fantasy, Mythology

208 pages, Hardcover

First published September 12, 2017

Reviews

[Valia (beingshelfaware) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I fell in love with Tran Nguyen's art after reading Spin The Dawn by Elizabeth Lim. Once I found out who the artist was, I followed her work on IG. And then I bought her book. Her artwork is just so gorgeous and beautiful. Can't wait to see her future art!

[Aaron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exquisite testing of boundaries, often drifting from realistic quibbles on the precariousness of mental illness, absent a filter, to more fantastical perspectives on the intersection of self and other, but with Raphaelite technical precision.