Nina Lola Bachhuber
Joyce Kim
Sunsook Roh
Han Sam Son
Khanh Vo.
Gallery Korea is pleased to announce the opening
of form, an exhibition of sculpture and painting
by five emerging artists who live in the New York
area. In different ways the art in this exhibition
reflects the physical character of two-dimensional
work and the material versatility of three-dimensional
installations. Han Sam Son creates large reliefs
out of layered sheets of cardboard. Boxes are broken
up and attached to the surface and then repeatedly
cut, covered and cut again. Here, the artist creates
a scarred surface that is evocative of the way the
past emerges from memory and is confronted and reconfigured
in consciousness. Another artist whose work addresses
memory, Khan Vo, builds architectural installations
that generate a spatial tension suggestive of geographical
and psychological displacement.Nina Lola Bachhuber's
installation featuring animal creatures made from
plywood surrounding a circular mirror on the floor
alludes to sociability in animal life. Soft animals
made from fabric are strapped to the belly of some
of the herd indicating the mutual needs that bind
members of a group.The process of change, decay
and rejuvenation is evoked in the integration of
medical paraphernalia within a wiry network suspended
from the ceiling in a sculpture by Sunsook Roh.
In this and other works, Roh incorporates pages
from the Bible that have been crumpled into balls
with patches of textvisible and in this way emphasizes
the material form and immaterial message of the
printed word. The forms in Joyce Kim's abstract
paintings derive from layers of different colored
patches that are poured as opposed to painted on
the canvas. In exploring the fluid nature of paint
she reduces the expressive element of the artist's
hand and yet nevertheless creates luxurious, painterly
paintings.
