Our Mother

Title: SHE IS OUR MOTHER
Medium: Acrylic on color paper
Year: 2005
Size: 18"x 24"

Deeply..................

Chaw Ei Thein's art works showing in ISCP, New York

Dear all friends,

I will be exhibiting my latest artwork at ISCP, New York.
I would love to see you at the opening of ISCP Open Studios which follows my collaborative installation "September Sweetness" with artist Richard Streitmatter -Tran at the Singapore Biennale 2008. Attached is the invitation card for the event. I hope to see you there!

All the best,
chaw ei thein







Here is a jpeg of all the scheduled events for Open Studios weekend. Please circulate!

SHE

Title: She
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
year: 2006
Size: 140 x 100 cm (1.4 x 1 m)
Description: Portrait of woman reflecting her interest in women's lives as well as representing her questions and answers about her own place in the world.

NUDE (2)

Title : Nude (2)

Size: 106 x 160 cm

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Year: 2008

The Semigwa Dance is a traditional Burmese dance in which a dancer performs intricate movements while holding candles or other materials in the palms of their hands. this dance has been perverted to become a form of torture. One man explains:

"At this time, prisoners were punished through a method called the Semigwa dance. During this torture, prisoners are made to crawl on gravel on their knees and elbows with their feet and hands up in the air, holding onto handfuls of gravel, while singing. If they do not sing smoothly or can not crawl, the authorities whip them with Bamboo batons. All the other prisoners are forced to watch this.

Torture report (Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma))

Setting up my Studio at ISCP, Brooklyn

Setting up my studio at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, made possible by the Asian Cultural Council (ACC).

NUDE (1)

Title : Nude (1)

Size: 106 x 160 cm

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Year: 2008