COMMON
HILLES GALLERY, 2nd floor
October 21-January 20, 2023 Opening Reception: October 26, 2022 5:30-7:30 pm
COMMON, on the Hilles Gallery second floor, highlights CAW’s esteemed teaching artists showcasing the wide-ranging work taught at CAW with painting, drawing, printmaking, pottery, metalworking, fiber arts, book arts, photography, and sculpture on display. In daily life, common can mean something simple and unrefined or convey a sense of unity and harmony. This show leans into both definitions, highlighting this group of artists at times intersecting and converging, playing off one another, moving together toward new unexplored territory.
Băng Qua Nước: Across Land, Across Water
HILLES GALLERY, 1st floor
October 21-January 20, 2023 Opening Reception: October 26, 2022 5:30-7:30 pm
CAW is pleased to extend the dates for this exhibition to January 20, 2023. Watch for updates on public programming.
Part of Artspace’s Open Source Art Festival, CAW is proud to host a special exhibition of an Artspace-selected curator and her exhibition.
On the first floor of the Hilles Gallery, Băng Qua Nước: Across Land, Across Water, curated by Ivy Vuong (Yale ‘23) Connecticut-based Vietnamese artists Thuan Vu, Antonius-Tín Bui, Quyên Trương, and Thu Tran explores how home(s) exist, twist, and meld across land and water for Vietnamese peoples. The word nước in Vietnamese can mean homeland, nation, or water. Water gave passage to loss and new lives for thousands of Vietnamese ‘boat people’ escaping Vietnam post-1975 in the wake of the fall of Saigon. This displacement fraught with grief yet teeming with strength and resilience, is felt in this exhibition through paintings, cyanotypes, video, and soft sculpture divided into three sections: 1) Nơi Đây, Nơi Đó: Here nor/and There, 2) Cùng Nhau/Together, and 3) Sự Mất và Sự Trả Lại: Loss and Return/Redemption.
Press
CAW Throws Open the Gallery, New Haven Independent, Brian Slattery, October 26, 2022
“Băng Qua Nước: Across Land, Across Water” Centers Vietnamese Voices At CAW, Miranda Jeyaretnam , Arts Paper, October 27,, 2022