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University of Washington

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2011 Exhibitions:

Sopheap Pich: Compound
Nov 10,2011–Apr 1,2012
Material and Document: Experiments in Photography during the 1970s
Nov 4,2011–Mar 4,2012
Test Site: How to Make a One Minute Sculpture
Oct 25,2011–Feb 19,2012
Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries
Oct 15,2011–Jan 22,2012
Wolfgang Tillmans
Oct 15,2011–Feb 12,2012
Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises
Sep 24,2011–Dec 31,2011
Between Two Worlds
Jul 13,2011–Oct 9,2011
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age
Jul 9,2011–Sep 25,2011
Polaroids by Andy Warhol
Jul 9,2011–Oct 30,2011
David Herbert and the Mystery of the Holy Mountain
Jul 5,2011–Oct 16,2011
Shelf Life
Jul 1,2011–Oct 16,2011
2011 University of Washington MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 28,2011–Jun 19,2011
The Talent Show
May 7,2011–Aug 21,2011
“Landscape as Real Estate”: Lewis Baltz Photographs in the Henry Art Gallery Collections
Apr 7,2011–Jul 3,2011
Lucy Pullen: The Cloud Chamber and Related Works
Mar 5,2011–Jun 26,2011
Inspiring Vision
Mar 5,2011–Jul 10,2011
Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and Seattle Camera Club
Feb 12,2011–May 8,2011
Uta Barth
Feb 12,2011–May 8,2011
A Fire In My Belly, A Work in Progress
Dec 16,2010–Feb 13,2011
A Fire In My Belly, A Work in Progress
Dec 16,2010–Feb 13,2011
Joe Deal and Views of the Altered Landscape
Dec 2,2010–Apr 3,2011
Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber
Oct 16,2010–Feb 23,2011
Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture
Oct 2,2010–Jan 23,2011
SuttonBeresCuller: Panoptos
Oct 2,2010–Feb 16,2011
Vortexhibition Polyphonica
Oct 3,2009–Mar 13,2011

Sopheap Pich: Compound

East Gallery

November 10, 2011 – April 1, 2012

Image 1 / 2: Sopheap Pich. Compound [installation view at Henry Art Gallery, 2011].

Image 2 / 2: Sopheap Pich. Compound [installation view at Henry Art Gallery, 2011].

Cambodian born artist Sopheap Pich immigrated to the US with his family in 1984, where he received his formal education in art with a focus on painting. When he returned to live in Cambodia in 2003 he turned his practice toward sculpture made from traditional materials, primarily rattan and bamboo.

Whereas his earlier, U.S. based works were concerned with the forms of the human body, his sculptural installation at the Henry (Compound) is a reflection on the cycle of creation and destruction seen in the recent construction projects undertaken by Cambodian officials and commercial interests as the country struggles with modernization. Pich sees the new high rises, the filling in of lakes and reservoirs, and the constant sand dredging in the main rivers around Phnom Penh as both an apparent development of the country and an alarming depletion of its natural resources.

While in Seattle, Pich also collaborated with the artist Don Fels and the School of Drama of the University of Washington to design sets for a play based on the Cambodian American experience, written by University of Washington Professor Mark Jenkins.

Organized for the Henry by Elizabeth Brown, exhibition curator, with the assistance of Curatorial Associate Merith Bennett. This exhibition is generously supported by ArtsFund and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

Featured artists: Sopheap Pich

Image 1: Sopheap Pich. Compound [installation view at Henry Art Gallery, 2011]. 2011. Bamboo, rattan, plywood, and metal wire. Courtesy of the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art. Photo: Amelia Hooning.

Image 2: Sopheap Pich. Compound [installation view at Henry Art Gallery, 2011]. 2011. Bamboo, rattan, plywood, and metal wire. Courtesy of the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art. Photo: Amelia Hooning.

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