Kim Hyung Joo
Michelle Lance
Cotter Luppi
David Moore
Namjoo Kim
Hobong Kim
Gallery Korea is pleased to announce the opening
of Self and Other, a group exhibition of paintings,
sculpture, photographs, and video, on November
17th. In the process of establishing a concord
between ideas and their material realization,
the artist is both producer and viewer. The various
media in this exhibition reflect the manifold
tools with which artists can articulate an expression
of self.
Michelle Lance builds figurative sculpture by
sewing together dried fruit peel. The textured
skin of these hollow beings creates an enigmatic
presence and indicates the process through which
our apprehension of surface details informs our
perception of interior meanings. The photographs
of David Moore feature close-up views of figures
whose skin is wrapped or bound or sometimes shrouded
in ways that evoke the externalization of psychic
states. Cotter Luppi draws elaborate patterns
in pink and pale sienna on large sheets of paper.
These colors suggest white skin and the whorling
shapes evoke a narrative of cellular movement
on a microscopic level.
Hobong Kim uses video to indicate ways in which
the external world is transformed by subjective
association and absorbed by the body as well as
the brain. Namjoo Kim inserts her own face into
antique photographs that are enlarged and mounted
on silk. These are hung like traditional paintings
and mix the old and the new to reflect extraordinary
changes in the status of women. The emergence
of the self within the outline of cultural tradition
is reflected in the work of Kim Hyung Joo who
forms the shape of clothing in relief on the surface
of mulberry paper. In her small models depicting
professions from the past, she informs historical
research with imaginative interpretation. In different
ways the art on display requires our reconstruction
of the aesthetic process of expression and perception.
