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MY 2017 CAMBODIAN EXPERIENCE

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Channel: Julia Haw · 2018 · Film & Animation

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In this video I share glimpses of my three month extended stay in Cambodia last year.  I volunteered 25 hours a week with an NGO called Colors of Cambodia that offers free art education to all Khmer children.  I visited the killing fields in Phnom Penh, ran along the Bamboo Train in Battambang, ate spicy crickets and hung with many new friends.  The trip completely transformed the landscape of my mind and I vowed to return the very next year.  I was invited to do a solo exhibition of artwork at One Eleven Gallery in Vishnu Circle.  The opening is January 11th, 2018 from 7-11PM.  As I write this I'm here in Siem Reap once again and as happy as can be.  

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Julia Haw (b. 1982, Flint, MI) attended Western Michigan University with a concentration in painting and is recognized for creating bold memory-staining works. She addresses personal and immediate social issues, and most presently, global and political issues, and examines such topics as feminism, ageism, memory deterioration, intimacy, death and confrontational experience. She uses oil paint on cotton or linen as her mainstay medium, in order to achieve empathetic coverage of these socially and emotionally shared issues, and has been able to achieve considerable viewer pause through her dedicated work habit, vibrant color choices, straightforward subject matter, and by using people and objects within her community as models. Haw’s paintings tend to function as highly relatable, ensuing discussion amongst viewers, and bringing the public forum necessarily back.

Her work has been exhibited in such places as the Chicago Cultural Center, IL State Museum, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and extensively with curator and dealer Claire Molek.
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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