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Nga T. Trinh 1317 Liberty St #19, El Cerrito, CA 94530, [PHONE REDACTED], 981-6250 [EMAIL REDACTED] I came to the United States as a refugee from Viet Nam in 1975, and I’ve been living in the Bay Area since 1982. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Currently, I’m an employee of the Berkeley Public Library, and I’ve been with the BPL for eleven years. I'm a member of the El Cerrito Art Association since 2012. Beside work and family, I still manage some time to do artwork, occasionally showing them at the Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley Public Library, El Cerrito Community Center and other public places. Since 2004 I sometimes teach origami to BPL’s patrons and Berkeley Elephant Pharmacy’s customers before they closed. As a child growing up in Viet Nam, I learned paper folding when I was about ten, and now I often incorporate it into my artwork using mostly recycled papers. My artworks concentrate on the themes of environmental stewardship through the use of recycled materials, and on illustrating the multifaceted interactions between man and nature, plant and animal, pattern and disjunction. Origami is an excellent medium for conveying these dynamic relationships; it necessitates precision, but aspires to representations of life and nature. Likewise, sustainability and environmental stewardship demands that we rise above reductive, goal-oriented thinking in favor of holistic, process-oriented methods. Hence, my works highlight the innate tensions between pattern, colors and regularity of form, and irregularity, spontaneity and emotion. I stress the use of mostly recycled materials in order to show that art can be both sustainable and affordable, and my goal of having my works displayed publicly, is to drive this environmental message forward for the public benefit. I love to use recycled materials in my artwork - paper, twine, rocks or other small objects that I find in my daily experience. I always practice the three R's: reuse, reduce and recycle. It's my way of "saving the world" one tiny step at a time. I’d love to see more permanent artwork in city public places that reflects the diversity of the city. Most of us are immigrants from a distant land and we often bring and introduce to this new land our art, games, food, costume and culture heritage. These are important parts of who we are and the more we know the better to bridge the gap of misunderstanding and ignorance about one another. And what’s a better way to show that other than in public parks and buildings through art? ---PAGE BREAK--- Nga T. Trinh 1317 Liberty St #19, El Cerrito, CA 94530, [PHONE REDACTED], 981-6250 [EMAIL REDACTED] Education: University of California at Berkeley Bachelor of Fine Arts Employment: 1984-1990 Teaching Assistant/Bilingual Specialist Oakland Unified School District Oakland, CA 2000-Present Library Assistant Berkeley Public Library 2020 Kittredge St Berkeley, CA 94704 Exhibitions: Students’ Show Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery Santa Rosa, CA May 18-23, 1979 Artists’ Print Show Worth Ryder Gallery University of California at Berkeley April 6-16, 1982 Eighteen Vietnamese Artists Art Building, San Jose State University ---PAGE BREAK--- San Jose, CA October 31-November 12, 1983 23rd Annual Hayward Area Forum of the Art Exhibition '84 Hayward, CA May 18-20, 1984 An Anagram Series – One Woman Show Berkeley Public Library Berkeley, CA July 1-August 31, 2005 Annual Members' Showcase 2006, 07 & 09 Berkeley Art Center Berkeley, CA January 18-February 25, 2006 Co-creator of the Annual Staff Arts & Crafts Show Berkeley Public Library Berkeley, CA June 27-August 7, 2006 National Juried Exhibition Berkeley Art Center Berkeley, CA August 26-September, 2007 Digital with Origami Portraits Exhibition Berkeley Public Library- Central Catalog Lobby Berkeley, CA January 5-February 1, 2010 Beyond Landscape Marine Community Foundation 5 Hamilton Landing, Suite 200, Novato ---PAGE BREAK--- June 15-September 28, 2012 My origami artworks were sold to Roundtree Visuals Company in Emeryville and to The Alameda County Arts Commission in Alameda in April, August and November, 2011. ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK---