Join us for an art discussion with art curator Pierrette Van Cleve

 You Khin- Unlocking Cages and Chains:
The Khmer Rouge 's disruption of Cambodian Fine Art

Sunday, October 14, 2012
1:30 - 3 p.m.

at the home of Producers Club members Lizbeth Ecke & David Meyer
Encinitas, CA

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Light hors d'oeuvres (cheese & charcuterie board, appetizers, desserts) and beer & wine will be served.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Majors via email or call (619) 594-6374.

About You Khin
When the Khmer Rouge annihilated any proponents of art and culture during its 4 year Communist rampage throughout Cambodia in the late1970s, one artist – only by the fortune of serendipity – was spared.  You Khin lived to paint the story of a diaspora.  Utilizing gripping, evocative Impressionist brushstrokes, Khin conveys not only the confusion of his experience in exile, but also his hope for Cambodia’s future.  Imagined through second-hand stories gleaned from his homeland and inspired by his nomadic travels throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, You Khin’s artwork mends the glaring gap in Cambodian art history, and contextualizes the contemporary art emerging from a country that has yet to fully recover from its traumatic past.

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