Artist Tammy Nguyen has produced a new print edition in support of Printed Matter / St Marks on the occasion of NADA New York 2022. Nguyen’s work is a modified representation of Barnaba da Modena’s 14th century painting, Nursing Madonna, set against a photograph of rocks on Mars that was captured and color-enhanced by NASA in 2012. Recently, Nugyen has been exploring the spread of Christianity in the context of the colonization of the Global South, exemplified here with the original medieval ornament transformed into tropical vegetation. She turns her attention away from the past and towards the future to imagine what role Christianity could have in the proliferation of these same systems of power beyond Earth and into the cosmos.

Tammy Nguyen is a multimedia artist and writer whose work spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and publishing. Intersecting geopolitical realities with fiction, her practice addresses lesser-known histories through a blend of myth and visual narrative. She is the founder of Passenger Pigeon Press, an independent press that joins the work of scientists, journalists, creative writers, and artists to create politically nuanced and cross-disciplinary projects. In 2008, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study lacquer painting in Vietnam, where she remained and worked with a ceramics company for three years thereafter. Nguyen received an MFA from Yale in 2013 and was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship at Wave Hill in 2014 and a NYFA Fellowship in painting in 2021. Recently her work was included in Greater New York 2021 at MOMA PS1 and has also exhibited at Nichido Contemporary Art in Japan, Smack Mellon, Rubin Museum, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Vietnam, and the Bronx Museum, among others.