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Abstraction Now Media, Media Into the Life Abstraction Now Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Service NY December 3, 2009-February 19, 2010 Media, Media Queens Museum of Art December 6, 2009-February 19, 2010 Into the Life Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery December 10, 2009-February 19, 2010 ARTISTS CONTENTS Byoung Ok Min J. Grace Rim Myong Hi Kim Message from the Director Chan Hee Hong Jaye Rhee Nam June Paik 5 Chan S. Chung Jaye Moon Nancy Hwang Foreward Chong Gon Byun Jean Shin Po Kim 6 Choong Sup Lim Jin Soo Kim Sang Nam Lee Chung Yoon Kim John Pai Seung Lee Thoughts on Thirty Years by Jane Farver ChungHwan Park Jong Il Ma Shin Il Kim 8 Do Ho Suh Joseph Pang Soo Im Lee Eung Ho Park Jung Hee Choi Sook Jin Jo Plates: Part I Eunjung Hwang Jung Hyang Kim Sun K. Kwak 19 Ga Hae Park Jung In Kim Sung Ho Choi Contemporary Korean Art: Haeri Yoo Kakyoung Lee Tchah-Sup Kim Present and Presented Hee-Soo Kim Kimsooja Theresa Chong by Judy Kim Hong Seon Jang Koh Sang Woo Whanki Kim 34 Hyungsub Shin Kyung Jeon Woong Kim Plates: Part II Ik-Joong Kang Miae Moon Yeong Gill Kim 41 Il Lee Mikyung Kim Yong Jin Han Ildan Choi Miru Kim Young Sam Kim Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York by Yu Jin Hwang 52 Plates: Part III 63 Interviews with Artists 88 Exhibition Checklist 98 Chronology 104 The symbols indicate the location of the exhibition. Message from the Director The year 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the Korean Cultural Service New York (KCSNY), and I am pleased to culminate this year with the exhibition Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York. Though the KCSNY has undergone changes through the years since its foundation in 1979, the visual art program has been one of its most intense and focused activities. The KCSNY’s Gallery Korea, which was created in 1985, has been established as an exciting venue for showcasing both traditional and contemporary, international and Korean art, and Faces & Facts is a special tribute to the achievements of many Korean artists who have enriched the KCSNY with their significant works and creativity. This event is also a celebration of KCSNY’s 30th anniversary. Faces & Facts features more than 50 Korean and Korean American artists who are currently based in New York and are actively engaged in the local and international art scenes. It portrays the tremendous diversity in contemporary Korean art and showcases a variety of interests, styles, and issues. This is the largest exhibition the KCSNY has ever organized, not only in terms of the number of participating artists, but also the number of venues. I am delighted to present the artists simultaneously at three locations: Gallery Korea of the KCSNY, the Queens Museum of Art, and the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery. The KCSNY would not have been able to present its exhibition at Gallery Korea without the public’s continuous support and the spontaneous participation of artists. For three decades, Korean artists from different generations have been actively involved in exhibiting their works and exchanging ideas. This artistic community has prompted an interesting dialogue around Korean art and identity. Many artists featured in the Faces & Facts show have exhibited more than once at Gallery Korea. Korean contemporary art has been recognized more than ever in the United States in recent times. In New York alone, Korean artists have been paid more attention at galleries and museums. I look forward to Korean artists continuing to be a thriving part of the cultural interchange in New York City, and encourage Gallery Korea to maintain its reputation for being an exciting and visionary place to communicate contemporary art. There are many individuals and institutes who have made this exhibition possible. I would like to thank Po Kim, one of the artists in the show and Director of the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director, and Hitomi Iwasaki, Exhibition Director of the Queens Museum of Art for their generous support and enthusiastic collaboration on this exhibition. I also thank Lilly Wei, who participated in the initial review of the artists. My thanks also go to Jane Farver and Judy Kim for their contribution to the catalogue, and Whanki Museum of Art, Korea, Art Projects International, New York, Tina Kim Gallery, Danese Gallery, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, Newman Popiashvili Gallery and Young Kyun Lim for providing photographic material or for loaning works. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the individual collectors who have lent pieces from their collections, including Mr. Matthew Kim and Mr. Hyungki Choi. Most of all, thank you to all of the participating artists, whose generous support has given the KCSNY an opportunity to organize this wonderful show! Finally, I would like to thank all of the people who have attended exhibitions and supported the work of the KCSNY. Soo Keun Song Director Korean Cultural Service NY 5 Foreward Yu Jin Hwang New York City has become a special setting for contemporary arts and culture and as a result The exhibition Faces & Facts opens at Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Service NY, and has drawn artists from the all over the world; Korean artists are no exception. From the 1950s is comprised primarily of living artists in New York. Other venues that are exhibiting works Curator onward, more and more Korean artists have headed to New York to be part of the international have also had a significant role in the development of the Korean art scene in New York. The Korean Cultural Service NY art stage. The exhibition Faces & Facts : Contemporary Korean Art in New York features Queens Museum of Art (QMA) has been one of the foremost endorsers and promoters of contemporary Korean artists based in New York City. Many of the artists participating in the Korean art in recent decades. By organizing year-round invitational programs and by hosting exhibit have been trained in different disciplines in art schools in Korea and discovered new exhibits, QMA has been a stronghold, showing more than several dozen Korean artists. The visual insights and an artistic language in New York. Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, which opened in April 2009, is the first art museum a In this present time of globalization and interconnectedness, national origin or geographic Korean artist has inaugurated in New York. Po Kim, as mentioned, has been a practicing New boundaries might be an improper nomination to conceive a show, but it is not our intention York artist since 1957 and is one of the elder statesmen of contemporary art. Sylvia Wald is to confine the exhibit into the narrowness of ethnic backgrounds. The purpose of the show is his wife and an artist in her own right who has been recognized for her creative endeavors. rather to disclose how the foreign experience and living in the United States has contributed to Thus, the Po Kim space itself physically symbolizes the presence of Korean art in nurturing the visual artists’ inspiration, and to reveal the arresting interaction between different New York City. cultures and backgrounds. Indeed, the dialogues Korean expatriate artists have initiated with The Faces & Facts exhibition is divided into three parts and is accordingly housed at three Korean artists in Korea and non-Korean artists abroad will be an interesting point of reference locations. Gallery Korea’s “Abstraction” series includes the drawings, paintings, mixed media for the exhibit. and sculptures of Theresa Chong, Yong Jin Han, Chung Yoon Kim, Jung Hyang Kim, Po Kim, The first arrival of a Korean artist in New York dates back to 1922, when painter Jang Bal Tchah-Sup Kim, Whanki Kim, Woong Kim, Young Gill Kim, Il Lee, Sang Nam Lee, Choong attended Columbia University for two years to study Art History and Aesthetics. Mr. Jang Sup Lim, Byoung Ok Min, Miae Moon, John Pai, Joseph Pang, ChungHwan Park, and went back to Korea and became a pioneering art educator, and one of the founding members Ga Hae Park. of the first art school in Korea, namely the College of Arts of Seoul National University, which The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery exhibits works that are part of the “Into the Life” was established in 1946. In the years following, many Korean artists left Korea for the U.S. at theme and includes artists whose subject matter or materials are taken from everyday life. different stages of their Has lived and were duly influenced and motivated by their experiences. Artists featured in this series include: Chong Gon Byun, Ildan Choi, Jung Hee Choi, Sung For example, John Pai arrived in the U.S. in 1949 at the age of 11, and resided in Wheeling, Ho Choi, Nancy Hwang, Chan Seong Jung, Kyung Jeon, Sook Jin Jo, Ik-Joong Kang, Jin Soo West Virginia, where he had his first one man show at the age of 15 in the Olebay Institute. Kim, Mikyung Kim, Myong Hi Kim, Sun Kyung Kwak, Seong Lee, Soo Im Lee, Jong Il Ma, He received high school education in New Jersey, and got a full four year scholarship from Jaye Moon, Hyungsub Shin, Jean Shin, Chan Hee Hong, Hong Seon Jang, Hee Soo Kim, Jung Pratt Institute, New York. He ultimately became a professor at his alma mater. Another artist, In Kim, Eung Ho Park, J.Grace Rim and Haeri Yoo. Po Kim, came to New York in 1957 at the age of 40 after serving as an exchange professor at The Queens Museum of Art’s “Media, Media” exhibit presents the photographs and videos of Illinois University for two years, and has resided in New York City since the 1950s.
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