artist statement
As an artist who traditionally paints still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, my work touches heavily on the emotions and images of identified perceptions of humans in everyday life. By focusing on subjects, I often arrange the space properly to reveal everyday situations. As a result, my works reveal identities, places, times, memories, and the very shape of our lives.

 Most of my works are deeply inspired by Japanese manga and the teachers who taught me. While developing my technique, I became obsessed with realism and impressionism because most of my work blends between detail and abstraction. With a curious nature and a love to experience new things, I often use many materials to create different textures on the surface of realistic paintings. I have experienced new materials throughout my academic career: oil paints, pastel colors, charcoal, oil pastel, watercolor, and acrylic colors. The skills I use in all my works are chiaroscuro, color theory, color temperature, and Alla Prima. I use these two techniques to emphasize the contrast between light and shadow and blend colors directly to create depth and subtle gradations. For example, I would build up thin layers of colors together while not completely dry to create depth and space to emphasize texture and light.

For me, culture, perception, and family are a source of abundant inspiration. I use my deep color inspiration for each piece to build layers of color and create different textures on the surface. Landscapes, still lifes, and portraits were chosen for the subjects around me to depict a realistic aspect of Asian people's daily life or activities. I use my deep color inspiration for each piece to build layers of color and create different textures on the surface. Landscapes, still lifes, and portraits were chosen for subjects around me, like my family, to describe their realistic side of life or daily activities. Following a random layout with a quick pastel color sketch based on my emotions while observing my family's everyday life, I used that sketchpad and detailed it with oil color. I use color, light, and shadow to amplify genuine human emotions and psychological actions and the depth of the whole picture to reveal the story. I use multiple thin layers of oil paint to depict realistic form and emotional precision to achieve deep, richness, and brightness. I want viewers to put their memories there and cherish every moment they spend with their families.

Finally, I developed a spatial setting perspective for portraits, landscape paintings, and still lifes that are more harmonious and interesting in composition. In the future, I will experiment with digital to see the difference between everyday beauty and a different technique.

bio
Chile Nguyen is known as a painter. She has a strong love for painting and printmaking and is a fan of Japanese manga. Her art is a mixture of European and Japanese art, depicting her intense feelings for the great nature and the people around her. Chile uses her brushstroke technique to create texture and detailed works revealing her beauty passion.​

When she was young, she read the manga Inuyasha by Takahashi Rumiko. With the innocent eyes of a child, what attracted her at that time was not its content but the attractive drawing. This comic drew her to the world of art. As a result, she started creating countless paper dolls based on her favorite animal characters and telling her own stories to her parents.

She was born in 1997 and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In Vietnam, she could not develop her art because the art of painting in Vietnam was not popular, and it was only classified as entertainment. In 2012, her family immigrated to the United States. Her technique has been deeply influenced by her professor Brain Smith at Saint Charles Community College in Missouri, Japanese comics, and the classical drawings of Renaissance and Baroque artists. The themes in her paintings constantly challenge the viewer to reflect on the human perception of beauty. 

contact
website: https://chilenguyen2.wixsite.com/my-site
instagram: chilenguyen0831