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Winnie Truong

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Winnie Truong's dioramas on exhibition in Curious Nature

Winnie Truong is a Toronto artist who uses dioramas, drawing, animation and other techiques to explore ideas of identity, feminism, and fantasy. Her focus is landscapes and the natural world. Slow drip (2023) Drawing and cut paper collage, 24”x20” She is on exhibition in Curious Nature at Calgary Contemporary from April 10 through Aug. 25. This solo show includes her mixed media dioramas, new…

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Winnie Truong

A Mutual Reaction

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Exhibition Text: Winnie Truong and Shanie Tomassini at Patel Brown

“That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below is from that which is above” is the long-form version of this show’s title, and time has seen its abbreviated form become an oft-used expression. Its source is The Emerald Tablet, a text considered foundational for medieval alchemists. Alchemy is the forerunner of modern chemistry, and also an apt metaphor for artmaking: Artists infuse ordinary things with profound meaning by recontextualizing them, or by taking raw material and with it creating something great. All of this is both a kind of transmutation (alchemy) and transformation (art). Easily interchangeable to the flouter of nuance, the more considerate type will note that each word has its own identity. “Transformation” and “change” may be lexical twins for instance, but the former suggests improvement, while the latter can veer in any direction.  

This difference is significant, particularly where the art of Winnie Truong and Shanie Tomassini is concerned. When it comes to the natural world, a focal point for both artists, change takes the shape of devastation, one accelerated by human crowding and the fatal negligence of the few who stand wobbling at its top. It requires denial or real acceptance to continue making art under the psychic duress of that reality. Truong and Tomassini are noble practitioners of the latter. While their works evince beauty, they also manifest gloom; and it is in the site of their imagination, and in the obvious force of it for both of them, where opposites are reconciled and get translated into something singular.

For her dioramas, Truong envisions herself as a kind of other-world botanist. Perhaps it is still this world, but it is certainly not the same one. The dark, hazy glow of each diorama’s lighting—blood reds, black-ish purples—can suggest doom, but this strange flora is nurtured and somehow blooms despite it. Tomassini also uses parts of this world, as foraged objects or subtle references, and transforms them into allusive sculptures. She collects rocks, many from a defunct mine near the ghost town of Gagnon, and partially buries them in wet grout shaped like mutated butterflies (or Rorschach ink blots). It’s unclear whether or not these winged insects are from this world or, similarly to Truong, are part of another version of it. 

There are also obvious references to the human form: for Tomassini, a brain and a humanoid are covered with bursting sprouts; for Truong, hands—possibly human, possibly plant-hybrid—weave through the flowers she conjures with artistic precision. All these evoke speculative works of fantasy and science fiction, of which the best are both extrapolative and imaginative, and of which both Truong and Tomassini’s art patently share. Somehow with the pain of our world’s bleak changing there is hope in their work, and there is care. “[A]s all things were from One” shortly follows the aforementioned quote that begins this text, and it’s true, but only the self-honest really know this: That which happens to the earth happens to us, and that which happens to us happens to the earth. 

Exhibition text for "As Above, So Below" at Patel Brown (Montreal), 2024

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Winnie Truong (Canadian, b. 1988)

Eyes at Dusk, 2022

Drawing and cut paper collage on panel

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Winnie Truong, Pink Cave, 2021

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Winnie Truong http://winnietruong.com

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Winnie Truong

“On A Lark”

22″ x 30″

“On A Lark 22”x30” part of Terrestrial Beings @medhatesplanade curated by Jasmine Keillor @jazzkeillor . Check it out if you’re Medicine Hat AB this summer & scroll through for programming and exhibition tour info 😎.“

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Featured Artist: Winnie Truong Title: The Offer Medium: Drawing and Cut Paper Collage https://toyastales.blogspot.com/2019/08/art-of-day-winnie-truong.html

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Amazing illustrations, drawings from Toronto based illustrator, artist Winnie Truong @winnietruong at https://www.winnietruong.com/ "Hidden Trails", chalk pastel & coloured pencil, 44 x 36", © Winnie Truong

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Winnie Truong

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Beautiful stuff. Enjoy.

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Winnie Truong

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cool art of  Winnie Truong

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Winnie Truong (Canadian, b. 1988)

Tidal Forces, 2022

Coloured pencil and cut paper collage