Ode To…, 2023 (Poster)

Exhibition poster for:Boramie Sao'Ode To…'July 6 → August 10, 2023DTLAPress release:Simchowitz gallery is pleased to present ‘Ode To’, an exhibition of paintings by the New Mexico-based artist, Boramie Sao (b. 1990, Long Beach CA). The title could be defined as a lyric poem, or tribute to a person, place or thing; and yet it also underscores the importance of place within Sao’s work, especially within the context of place as being something more sensed than understood—that indistinct region of awareness that cannot be so easily defined. For Sao, who is a first generation Cambodian-American, that ambiguity has been essential to her artistic practice.The exhibition features over a dozen paintings, works on paper and poems penned by the artist, which were made between the years 2020-2023. Sao moved to Taos, New Mexico in 2020, which provided a great deal of inspiration for the works. “Taos holds space for those who are willing to work for it,” she says. “It isn’t for everyone, but it real