{"id":53604,"date":"2012-03-23T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=53604"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:22:04","slug":"senex12-sophy-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12-sophy-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition artist Sophy Min &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53612\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-120306_Sophy_Min_8334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53612\" class=\"wp-image-53612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-120306_Sophy_Min_8334.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Khin Ohnmar Min&quot; (2012), mixed media, by Sophy Min '12.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-120306_Sophy_Min_8334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-120306_Sophy_Min_8334-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-120306_Sophy_Min_8334-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-120306_Sophy_Min_8334-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-120306_Sophy_Min_8334-68x68.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Khin Ohnmar Min&#8221; (2012), mixed media, by Sophy Min &#8217;12.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Min of Yangon, Burma, makes art that reflects her identity as a Chinese person raised in Myanmar and now living in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Drawn to bright colors, she balances traditional patterns and pop culture in her work. Min arranges fabrics, tape and glitter into grids on canvas, manipulates these compositions in Photoshop, and returns to canvas for the final rendering. &#8220;The titles are the various names I am called in the different cultures I&#8217;ve been immersed in,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12\/\">Return to the 2012 Senior Exhibition main story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Min of Yangon, Burma, makes art that reflects her identity as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53604"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119068,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53604\/revisions\/119068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}