Tin Nguyen: How Nice To Not Rush

Auxier Kline is pleased to present How Nice To Not Rush, Tin Nguyen’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, opening on Friday, March 27th, 2026.

For this new body of work, the Brooklyn based artist Tin Nguyen brings forward an ethos that bridges living and making: a practice grounded in slowness and mindfulness. The paintings invite viewers into landscapes and journeys that trace the edges of perception. Drawn from lived experience, they unfold as moments of sustained attention. Wildflowers, grasses, windows, trees, and moss recur as sites of the seemingly mundane where Nguyen allows their quiet beauty to surface. Rather than dramatizing, he amplifies quiet perception, allowing subtle emotional and sensory registers to arrive. Space through his lens feels rooted, yet porous, mutable, and even spiritual. In no longer a rehearsal, together with the sunrise’s choreo , Nguyen recalls a moment in Northern California where he immersed himself in yoga and meditation studies at a Buddhist retreat center. What remains is a form of devotion that is quieter, the devotion of daily return, of walking the same path until it becomes interior, until you can close your eyes and still feel the dappled light, the give of earth, and the particular green of a specific afternoon. We’re asked if we look long enough, can we discover ourselves in the smaller details, in the thrum of Queen Anne’s lace, or in the shimmer of bursting goldenrods? Can we allow room for the world to reflect back through the defiant act of not rushing through life? The work holds the residue of that repetition, that slow accumulation of looking that transforms daily looking into a kind of love and presence. Nature's greatest gift might not solely be about beauty or solace, but perhaps the chance to feel the edges of the self soften into various grounds, to experience the world not as something separate from us but as something we are woven into, inseparable from, and forever returning to. He offers us an invitation to get lost, to let go of the need to orient oneself, to experience the strange comfort of not knowing exactly where you are.

What to expect:
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