<For Immediate Release>
Open Unconscious
Artists: Dare J. Boles, Jimin Chae, Jean H. Kim, Zaun Lee
Curator: Sunny Shin
Exhibition Date: May 12 – September 11, 2015
Opening Reception: Monday, May 11th from 5 – 7pm
Venue: Woodside BBCN Bank (50-15 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377)
AHL Foundation in collaboration with BBCN Bank is pleased to present “Open Unconscious,” a group exhibition with four artists, Dare J. Boles, Jimin Chae, Jena H. Kim, and Zaun Lee from May 11 through September 11th, 2015. Featured artworks explore space, movement, social position, and memory of unconscious.
Dare J. Boles is a feminist artist who works with pattern, color, texture and manipulation. The interplay of these elements is the focus of her work, and she enjoys the tension and unpredictability created by these elements. Working primarily in mixed-media and collage, she likes to explore the female role in diverse cultures being ever conscious of her place in society.
Jimin Chae‘s paintings centers on the concept of the installation as a process that organizes images and space in a way that affects our interpretation of art as well as our somatic relationship to it. Chae reimagines the space depicted within his paintings as something that can be fragmented into distinct parts. These parts then become something for the artist to orchestrate so as to create a synthetic whole that remains in tension with its discrete parts.
Jean H. Kim creates site-specific installations and paintings. Theme of her paintings is space, especially the Stage series (2012) is a representation of the stage itself, except for the background and the performers. Her work with the tape drawing and printing techniques is very neat, but the slack in the expression or freedom to glimpse the unconscious world of the artist. The representation of her work on stage, which leaves room to imagine, allows us to imagination whatever we want.
Work shown in this exhibition is Zaun Lee‘s abstract paintings formed by the rules and patterns. When the artist drew a picture, she followed her rules and pattern without considering the form. However, you can feel the balance of the entire screen with organizing a line from unconsciousness in the work. The works in this exhibition are her early works to study a variety of materials and methods of representation beyond traditional painting.
— Sunny Shin —
AHL Foundation’s Art in the Workplace program is presented in collaboration with the BBCN Bank with the public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and with additional support from Jason J. Kim Oral Design.
For inquiries about the exhibition or our programs please contact us at info@ahlfoundation.org.
