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John Trinh
Lives and works in Westminster, CA, United States of America
https://www.facebook.com/JohnTrinhArtwork/
I paint what I feel strongly about. My mottos are simple message to people of all ages. These images
”Less is more” (Anonymous), ”It takes a long time to play a big role in our contemporary life; we see them
become young” (Picasso), and ”Do ordinary things daily and they influence many of our activities, so
with extraordinary love” (Mother Teresa). I paint icons they have great universality. That universality allows
- the graphic style and images I see everywhere I go, me to move beyond ethnicity or race in my paintings
from the screen of a television or a computer to the and instead focus on the thoughts I want to express,
traffic sign at the street corner. Nothing represents and things that I feel strongly about. To me, these are
my motto less is more than those graphic images. more important even than style and technique. Dark
There is an abstract quality, a highly condensed and light, cold and warm, dull and saturated, thick
and refined thought process in those images that and thin, flatness and volume, soft and hard edges,
is creatively very substantial. They send a strong, and designs are fundamental material of my work.
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