These Are the Eyes That Watched 

War-related trauma, cultural memory, and personal memory have been at the heart of much of my artistic work, which invites viewers to consider the profundity of war’s impact across time, place, generations. In 2012, I traveled to Vietnam to “witness in place”—to observe the ways that the Vietnamese state remembers and re-presents the American War through printed materials and museum displays and to speak with individuals about their memories of the war. I carried home images that continually resurface in my mind, co-mingle with and inflect memories of my late father, who served as a medic in the war, and my imagination of his trauma and the experience of his absence, still so palpable to me. These and my own and my father’s photographs along with Vietnamese printed materials form the source material for much of the work that comprises the exhibition These Are the Eyes That Watched. —Jennifer Cawley

Jennifer Cawley is an emerging artist who began her critical engagement with art at Wellesley College before completing an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, and her work has been exhibited throughout New England and in New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and Santa Ana, CA. 

To view images of her work and access additional resources, including an interview by New Mexico Public Radio’s Megan Kamerick, please visit jennifercawley.net.

Join us for a reception at 4:30 p.m. on April 14,  2016.