{"title":"Cedric Vu","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"do-you-smell-fumes","title":"Do You Smell Fumes?","description":"\u003cp\u003eA figure stands with arms crossed, gas mask on, a single red flower at his head, electric green blazing behind him. The image lands instantly. Color, confrontation, presence. Tufted in acrylic yarn on cotton at 68 x 48 inches, the work fills a room. Up close the surface is unexpectedly soft, the dimensional yarn almost contradicting the severity of the image. Cedric began using his own likeness while teaching himself to tuft, and that honesty remains. A self portrait about the masks we wear while we are still figuring ourselves out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723431043382,"sku":null,"price":5300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_c0d858b9-b377-4b58-8fa4-0d52f64f1a13.jpg?v=1772016669"},{"product_id":"too-noble-to-curb-and-too-lofty-to-bend","title":"Too Noble to Curb and Too Lofty to Bend","description":"\u003cp\u003eHis back faces us. Bare shoulders, a golden halo hovering above, the waistband of his jeans just visible at the bottom of the frame. He does not turn around. The title reads like a declaration, and the image carries it easily. There is dignity in the posture, in the stillness, in the quiet authority of the halo. The deep red ground gives the figure warmth and gravity. One of Cedric's most composed works, and one of his most quietly powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723441201462,"sku":null,"price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_5_0bd76276-a113-430a-92be-04c23cfc71c8.jpg?v=1772016740"},{"product_id":"this-particular-self","title":"This Particular Self","description":"\u003cp\u003eA figure sits against burning orange and red, a burst of white rays behind his head. Part halo, part alarm, part pure visual energy. At 58 x 45 inches the scale matters. It fills your field of vision the way a strong presence fills a room. Color and composition hit immediately, while the tufted surface gives the image physical gravity. The title says it plainly. Not the self as an idea. This particular one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723449590070,"sku":null,"price":3200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_b0414fa1-cd6c-4c06-9ff2-1bcdb8a690cd.jpg?v=1772016843"},{"product_id":"i-love-machiavelli-but-the-storyline-for-me-has-run-stale","title":"I Love Machiavelli, but the Storyline for Me Has Run Stale!","description":"\u003cp\u003eA figure lies face down on a purple bed. A golden crown rests at their feet, a small orange flower placed gently on their back. The title is wry and literary, and the image mirrors it perfectly. Humor, theatrical awareness, and a surprising tenderness beneath it. Cedric studied filmmaking before picking up a tufting gun, and that influence is clear. The work feels staged like a still from a film you would want to watch twice. The purple bedding, rendered in dense yarn, is almost impossibly lush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723459911990,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_6_6d1e90cc-3591-40a1-94e7-b42c3ffd814c.jpg?v=1772016939"},{"product_id":"grwm","title":"GRWM","description":"\u003cp\u003eUp close, it is a face. Eyes, nose, a hand. The intimate fragments of someone looking straight back at you. Step away and the image locks into place, bold, cinematic, quietly commanding. Cedric tufted this horizontal self portrait with the instincts of someone trained to think in frames. What to reveal, what to hold in shadow, where the image needs air. A small white flower rests in the dark field like a quiet interruption. GRWM, \"get ready with me,\" turns an everyday ritual into something strangely magnetic. The yarn gives the surface a warmth that draws you closer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723466465590,"sku":null,"price":1750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_6_79896d85-17c4-42ec-9482-4e374214ee53.jpg?v=1772017022"},{"product_id":"duckwrth-dared-me","title":"Duckwrth Dared Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eA figure in a blue denim jacket stands with his back turned, a white star centered between the shoulder blades. We never see the face, and we do not need to. The back becomes the portrait, the jacket the statement. There is a quiet confidence in what the composition chooses not to reveal. The deep blue is rich and enveloping, the star bold and clean against it. Cedric titled the work after the musician Duckwrth, and the energy of that world, creative, collaborative, unapologetically itself, runs through every thread. Loose, graphic, and full of quiet swagger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723481112886,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_66ca3296-da51-4594-a935-7c882c98d0f4.jpg?v=1772017126"},{"product_id":"lago","title":"Lago","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack and white. High contrast. Immediate. A face emerges from curling forms, white flowers threading through the hair as if they had always belonged there. Up close the surface is dense and tactile, every loop of yarn holding the image together. Step back and it resolves into something graphic and striking. Cedric understands that tension well. Texture and image. Intimacy and impact. Lago sits exactly in that space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723490877750,"sku":null,"price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_3_f3631ae6-a848-4c0b-a874-ef86ff89f594.jpg?v=1772017245"},{"product_id":"28-cedric-vu","title":"28","description":"\u003cp\u003eA face looks directly back at you. Chin resting on folded arms, a yellow flower in his hair, eyes that refuse to look away. No mask. No costume. No prop. Just Cedric. The warm orange ground gives the figure a quiet glow, and the tufted texture of the skin holds light in a way photographs struggle to capture. What began as practical self portraiture arrives here with intention. Calm, direct, and certain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723501592886,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_e0e6efe2-47d0-407a-8de1-03b173f51778.jpg?v=1772017351"},{"product_id":"phosphenes","title":"Phosphenes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCedric's largest and most intense work. A boxer, himself, at 72 x 53 inches. Fists raised, blood at his nose and chest, a ring of daisy flowers orbiting his head like the lights you see after a hit. Phosphenes are exactly that, the flashes behind your eyes when everything goes dark. This work sits inside that collision of beauty and impact. Up close the red yarn of the blood is soft to the touch. That contrast between softness and violence is precisely the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723507458358,"sku":null,"price":15000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_6_51a0ac7c-eaae-41f8-a690-243d297cd64e.jpg?v=1772017456"},{"product_id":"cool-story-breaux","title":"Cool Story Breaux","description":"\u003cp\u003eA figure in a black and gold athletic kit raises a phone for a selfie. We see the body, never the face. The teal background hums behind the dark uniform. It becomes a portrait of performance, self documentation, and the way a generation constructs its own image. Cedric captures the moment with a light touch and a knowing title. Playful, sharp, unmistakably of now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723512930614,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_c07c254b-a57f-48b0-96f2-92e37f8f550a.jpg?v=1772017567"},{"product_id":"cedric-vu-inverted-portrait-of-alysa-liu-2026","title":"****’* **** *’* Fucking ******* *****!!!!!!!!","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThis inverted portrait of Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu turns a fleeting expression into something bold, immediate, and almost cinematic. Working from a photograph by Matthew Johnson, Cédric Vu translates the image into acrylic yarn on cotton, using the softness and density of the material to build the face through shifts in black, gray, and white.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe inverted composition makes the familiar feel slightly disorienting, while the close crop and expressive mouth give the work a strong sense of personality and movement. Vu’s use of tufting adds another layer to the image, replacing the smooth surface of a photograph with a tactile, physical texture that changes how the portrait is read up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt once playful, graphic, and intimate, the work reflects Vu’s interest in contemporary portraiture and in pushing a traditional textile process into a distinctly modern visual language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512816095542,"sku":null,"price":2750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/IMG_508112.jpg?v=1788601397"},{"product_id":"cedric-vu-bright-2026","title":"Bright","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBright⸮\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold, large-scale portrait filled with color, texture, and movement. Cédric Vu uses acrylic yarn on cotton to build the image through vivid reds, pinks, oranges, and blacks, creating a surface that feels both graphic and tactile.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe raised hands, small symbols, and sharp yellow accents give the composition a playful, almost restless energy. From a distance, the portrait comes together clearly, while up close, the texture of the yarn becomes an important part of the work itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 67 inches square, \u003cem\u003eBright⸮\u003c\/em\u003e has a strong presence. It reflects Vu’s interest in portraiture while showing how textile can completely change the way an image is experienced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54513211834678,"sku":null,"price":15000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/IMG_05861.jpg?v=1788606954"},{"product_id":"afterglow-fka-twigs-yarn-portrait","title":"Afterglow","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eI keep coming back to the eyes in this one. Everything else sits in grayscale, worked in yarn so dense it almost photographs like a print, and then there's this small hit of yellow right in the pupils. It's such a simple move, but it's the thing that makes the whole piece breathe. Without it, you'd have a beautifully rendered, quiet portrait. With it, she's looking right at you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe headwrap does a lot of the heavy lifting too. It's not just framing, it's got its own weight and folds, almost sculptural in how it's built up in the yarn. You can tell the artist spent real time there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis one was made for a Spotify partnership, a portrait of FKA Twigs, and honestly it fits her presence well. There's a stillness to it that doesn't feel passive. 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