Sopheap pich biography of william blake

Born in Battambang, Cambodia, in , he moved with his family to the United States in After receiving his BFA University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, , he returned to Cambodia in , where he began working with local materials — bamboo, rattan, burlap, beeswax and earth pigments gathered from around Cambodia — to make sculptures inspired by bodily organs, vegetal forms, and abstract geometric structures.

His sculptures stand out for their subtlety and power, combining refinement of form with a visceral, emotive force.

William Blake occupies a unique position in art history in that he was both a major artist and a major poet.

They consist of bamboo grids covered with strips of burlap salvaged from used rice bags that had been patched by previous owners with old fabrics and colorful bits of plastic twine, with added layers of encaustic. The passage of time is recorded as the ink slowly fades from the sticks after repeated pressings. New, larger format works on paper were featured in Expanses , the first of a two-part solo exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, where they were shown together with Ordeal , a large-scale sculpture recently exhibited at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore.

Each of the works in some way embodies a sense of a hidden mystery that is revealed through an intimate encounter with a physical object in the natural world. Recently on view at the National Gallery Singapore was Cargo , two shipping container sized sculptures that were included in the recent landmark global survey exhibition, Minimalism: Space.

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