Exhibitions

LEGACIES OF WAR

Tinney Contemporary / 237 5th Ave. N., Nasvhille, TN February 25, 2017 - March 25, 2017

Sisavanh Phoutavong

Tinney Contemporary is pleased to present Legacies of War, an exhibition of new work by Sisavanh Phouthavong. Sisavanh Phouthavong is one of the first professional Lao American visual artists and educators of her generation. Over 5,400 Lao refugees resettled in Kansas in the aftermath of the Laotian Civil War that ended in 1975. Through her powerful acrylic work, she confronts the challenges of bicultural memory and documentation. She considers notions of the abstract and the concrete for those who must remember both their inner and external histories in a diaspora framed by secrecy and loss. Her work probes what is shared, what is felt, and what must remain deeply personal among the lessons passed on to the next generation as it heals and rebuilds.