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Opening Celebration: Pao Houa Her and Young Bay Mud

two separate artworks with a hmong girl wearing traditional garb with a landscape backdrop and the other a three-pieced abstract sculpture perched on rocks

Left to right: Pao Houa Her, My grandmother’s favorite grandchild – Pao Houa from “My grandfather turned into a tiger” series, 2017. Wheat-pasted vinyl, 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Ashwini Bhat, Yakshi Nature Spirit, 2022. Glazed ceramic and found rocks from artist’s property, 48 x 16 x 16 inches, each. Courtesy of the artist and Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Photo by John Janca.

6–9pm
Free

Save the date for the opening celebration of two new exhibitions Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape and Young Bay Mud.

 

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Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape

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Exhibition Celebration: Friday, July 11, 6–9pm • Member Reception: Friday, July 11, 6–7pm

This first major exhibition of Pao Houa Her’s photographic practice traces the artist’s deepening exploration of diasporic constructions of homeland among her Hmong American community.

Young Bay Mud

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Exhibition Celebration: July 11, 6–9pm • Member Reception: July 11, 6–7pm

Inspired by the unique ground that underlies the San Francisco Bay Area, known scientifically as young bay mud, this exhibition highlights artists with local ties who are using mud to explore ecological entanglement and belonging in the Bay Area.