Andrew Hem

Dreams Towards Reality. Andrew Hems artwork captures the rich emotion of inbetween states, visually depicting those fraught emotional vignettes that call for reserves of bravery and wisdom previously underestimated. Hem himself was born in transition, during his parents flight from Cambodia in the w [...]
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Dreams Towards Reality. Andrew Hems artwork captures the rich emotion of inbetween states, visually depicting those fraught emotional vignettes that call for reserves of bravery and wisdom previously underestimated. Hem himself was born in transition, during his parents flight from Cambodia in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide the delicate figures he paints always seem to be in just one moment of a much deeper narrative. The instability captured in his scenes of people within empty city streets, expansive rice fields, snowy mountain passes, or fishing boats is given new meaning within his gorgeously shaded, layered brushwork