THE MAKING OF "CAMBODIAN SMILE" BY JULIA HAW

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Channel: Julia Haw · 2017 · People & Blogs

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In this video I share with you the process of creating "Cambodian Smile," the first painting created for my "Same Same But Different" exhibition slated for January 11th, 2018 in Siem Reap, Cambodia at 111 East Gallery. This piece was created entirely in Siem Reap in my apartment I maintained for three months.  The five prints made were completed by Master Printer Wesley Wong in Kuala Lumpur.

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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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Photo in Gallery Courtesy Scott Povey
Music: "Kom Kung Twer Evey (Don't Be Mad)" by Ros Sereysothea

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