Denise Duong

Mixed Media · Watercolor, Ink & Acrylic · Pacific Northwest

Available at JG Art Gallery + Events™

JG Art Gallery + Events™ · Bainbridge Island, WA · Park City, UT · jgartgallery.com

The Artist

Denise Duong works in mixed media — watercolor, ink, pen, and acrylic, in combinations that vary by piece. The 6 works at JG run and the range reflects both the variation in scale and the different material combinations she brings to different subjects.

The watercolor and ink work is the most sustained strand in her JG inventory: paint laid down in washes, then the pen or brush used to draw into the dried surface, adding line and detail that the wash alone cannot produce. This sequence — paint first, draw second — is the opposite of the conventional illustration approach and produces different results: the drawing does not describe the form, it annotates it.

The Work

Her acrylic works at JG operate differently — the paint is opaque, the surface built up rather than washed on. The opacity allows for the kind of layering that watercolor resists: painting over, changing the image, letting earlier passages show through as texture if not as image. The acrylic works in the collection show this accumulative quality on their surfaces.

Duong's range — works on paper to canvases — makes her accessible without being easy. The lower-priced work is not less considered than the more expensive; it is smaller and in a medium that costs less to produce. The quality of observation and the formal decisions are consistent across the range.

Medium

Mixed Media (Watercolor, Ink, and Pen on Paper)
Mixed Media
Acrylic on Canvas

Location

Pacific Northwest

Press & Awards

JG Art Gallery, Bainbridge Island

Collections

Private collections nationally