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Video Art Screening: “Beyond Stills”

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2005-03-03 16:10:10

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Video Art Screening: “Beyond Stills”

Thursday, March 10, 2005, 6:30 - 8:00 pm at Gallery Korea

460 Park Ave. (at 57th St.), 6th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Artists: Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo, Gautam Nikolai Kansara, Bosung Kim, Jin-Yo Mok, David Politzer, Gerald Pryor, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

Gallery Korea is pleased to announce the presentation of “Beyond Stills,” a video art screening which will be held in the gallery on Thursday, March 10, from 6:30 to 8 pm. The screenings are the work of eight distinct video artists currently active in New York.

From this screening, the artists, who challenge conventional expressive methods by moving pictures, employ movements of the human body that indicate emotions. Video works, conveying diverse scenes and subjects, offer plenty of information and stimulate our sensitive appetites for something new. To visualize their profound concepts, the artists explore respectively: ordinary people’s casual movement; surreal behavior that becomes clear only through use of the viewers’ assumptions; artistic performance; interactive machine and people’s reaction; an artist’s own body; and harmonization between text and movement.

Michele Beck (USA) and Jorge Calvo (Costa Rica) are multidisciplinary artists working with video, sound and performance. They are recipients of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant and two SOS grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Michele and Jorge have shown their work nationally and internationally at venues including the ICA in London; the Blaffer Gallery at the Art Museum at the University of Texas Museum; Galerie Chez Valentin in Paris, France; and the Queens Museum of Art.

Gautam Nikolai Kansara is a visual artist working with video and photography. He has been included in a number of group exhibitions in New York City as well as abroad. He has shown this past year at the Tribeca Film Festival, Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn, The W Hotel in Mexico City, and Ever Harvest Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan, among others.

Bosung Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and completed his MA at New York University. He received a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship in 2004. He has also attended Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY and Chung-ang University, Seoul, Korea.

Jin-Yo Mok is a multimedia artist living and working in New York. He received his BFA and MFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea and continued his studies at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His artwork has been featured and invited at the Whitney Museum's Artport; WIRED NextFest; PixelAche in Helsinki; in the Rhizome artbase; the Compact-Impact show; the Media City Seoul; Korea web-art festival; the Seoul Museum of Art; Netart Gallery; and other venues. He recently received a yearlong artist in residency position from the Harvestworks Media Art Center in New York.

David Politzer has exhibited his photographs and videos in Boston, Santiago, and Toronto. This year he lives in Syracuse.

Gerald Pryor, photographic and performance artist, uses the body as a measure of the outside world. He has worked in video and stills from video since 1995, performance since 1990, and photography since 1968. Currently he is a professor of New York University, Co-Director of Art in Media, Head of NYU’s Department of Art and Art Professions Photography Area, and Director of the NYU / International Center of Photography Graduate Program. His works have been shown internationally, and he has won NEA, NYFA, Gottlieb Foundation grants.

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is a photographer and video artist; she lives and works in New York City. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Bronx Museum of Art; Smack Mellon Gallery, NY; the Kunstahalle Exnergasse, Austria; Le Centre pour L’Image Contemporaine, Switzerland; and others. She has participated in Smack Mellon’s residency program and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s workspace program. She will attend the Macdowell Residency program in the spring and is currently preparing a solo exhibition at Jessica Murray Projects in New York.

“Beyond Stills” was organized in collaboration with Jeeyun Kim. Please contact Gallery Korea curator Jin Yong Chung for further information. He can be reached via phone at (212) 759-9550 or via email at nyarts@koreanculture.org. Further information is also available at www.koreanculture.org.

Gallery Korea, run by the Korean Cultural Service New York, is dedicated to presenting exhibitions devoted to diverse aspects of Korean and Korean diasporic culture, as well as group shows featuring international artists. For more information, please visit www.koreanculture.org.

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