KIRK HOPPER FINE ART

JEREMIAH JOHNSON | DUYEN NGUYEN

May 11 – June 15

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11 // 5-7pm

Artists in attendance

Dragons, tigers and lucky carp. Evil demons, flying cranes and floating eyes. What does it all mean? Think mardi gras beads, buddhas, raccoons, fruits and flowers. Intestines, arteries and alien life forms. Jeremiah Johnson and Duyen Nguyen make work characterized by an unabashed pleasure in execution, paradoxical humor and thoroughly idiosyncratic spirit. Against the clamor of competing aesthetic modes and divergent sociopolitical realities, these artists establish their own reference points, creating works of provocative visceralness, singular clarity and tangible beauty.

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JEREMIAH JOHNSON was raised on a fruit and flower farm in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University and MFA in print, paper and book arts from Syracuse University. Johnson’s work is in several public and private collections including The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg PA, The Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke VA, and the Servais Family Collection, Brussels Belgium. Johnson makes art in the studio he shares with his wife, visual artist Duyen Nguyen in Thibodaux Louisiana. Johnson is also the Director of a makerspace at Nicholls State University.

DUYEN NGUYEN is an ambitious visionary artist raised on a small commune in Vung Tau Province, Vietnam. Duyen spent her childhood drawing and hand sewing at night. Nguyen’s work is featured in several private collections throughout the United States. She has created over 1000 artworks, clothing designs and collaborative paintings with her husband since she moved to the United States in 2016. Duyen has exhibited her work at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, The 6th Louisiana Biennial National Exhibition in Rustin Louisiana, ArtFlow22 in Baton Rouge and currently part of the Louisiana Contemporary Exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.

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