AHL Forum: Myeongsoo Kim, Sui Park, Yejin Yoo, Young Sun Han
Thursday May 17, 2018
6.30 – 8pm
THiNK PREP
474 7th Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Paul Laster is an editor, critic, independent curator, artist and lecturer. He’s New York desk editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a contributing editor at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and artBahrain. He was the founding editor of Artkrush.com and Artspace.com, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Flavorpill.com and OneWorld Magazine.
He’s a contributor to Time Out New York, GARAGE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Cultured Magazine, Art Review Asia, Ocula Magazine, New York Observer, ArtPulse, ConceptualFineArts.com and Glasstire.com. He has also written for Art in America, Interview, Modern Painters, Paper, Flash Art, Newsweek, Bomb Magazine, FLATT, Avenue, amNew York, Artnet.com and ArtInfo.com.
A former curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), his recent curatorial projects include Altered States at Stux Gallery, New York; Me, Myself & I at Florida Atlantic University Gallery, Boca Raton, FL; It’s a Beautiful Day Ise Cultural Foundation, New York; The Garden at 4AM at Gana Art New York; Adam Frezza & Terri Chaio: Paper Islands at Humanities Gallery, Long Island University Brooklyn; A Weekend in the Country at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York; and Maker, Maker at the Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York.
Melissa Leigh Carn is currently employed as a Personal and Sales Assistant at the Mugrabi Collection, working closely with one of the world’s most important collections of post-war and contemporary art. She has worked on exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s artworks at museums in Milan, Rome, São Paulo, and Brasilia. Previously, she interned in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Department at Christie’s New York. She received an MA in Modern Art and Its Markets in 2015 at Christie’s Education and a BA in History with a double minor in History of Art and Classical Studies with honors for her thesis at Bryn Mawr College in 2010. She won the Most Outstanding Thesis Award at Christie’s Education for her unprecedented analysis of the late collages of New York artist Joseph Cornell.
Yejin Yoo was born in 1980, in Seoul, South Korea. She holds BFA and MFA with an emphasis in painting and installation, and MPS Art Therapy from School of Visual Arts, NY. Stemming from abstract painting language, themes such as paradoxical synchronicity and inclusive catharsis are explored in her work through the cyclical transformation between the digital and the physical. Her intention through the process is to create art that facilitates connections between mind, body and spirit, and individual to the collective. She is based in Brooklyn, NY practicing art, and facilitating art therapy sessions and holistic support groups as a board certified registered art therapist and a reiki master. She was a faculty member of masterclass workshop at Pratt institute during the 2017 Expressive Therapies Summit NY.
Young Sun Han is a visual artist whose practice intersects photography, performance, and installation. His projects research how individuals negotiate and respond to their cultural and everyday surroundings in order to locate their sense of place within society and history. He has exhibited in group exhibitions at David Zwirner (NYC), Jean Albano Gallery (Chicago), 4A Centre for Contemporary Art (Sydney), and Printed Matter Inc. (NYC). Young received his B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has studied abroad at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Kunsthochschule for Media, Cologne. He is one of the founding producers of the “Nasty Women Exhibition” movement which has sparked art fundraising activities for women’s advocacy groups worldwide. Young is based in Brooklyn and New Brunswick, where he is currently completing his M.F.A. at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Sui Park is a New York based artist and an interior architect born in Seoul, Korea. Her work involves creating 3-dimensional flexible organic forms of a comfortable ambiance that are yet dynamic and possibly mystical or illusionary. She had a solo exhibition ‘Playing with Perception’ at the Denise Bibro Fine Gallery in Chelsea, New York and a solo exhibition titled ‘Garden of Humans’ at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY. She participated over 70 exhibitions, including a recent exhibition, ‘Dismantle the Core’ at Elaine L Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Park’s artwork ‘SuiTable’ has been acquired by Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in 2016. Sui Park’s education includes MDes in Interior Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design and BFA in Environmental Design at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011. Sui Park also has MFA and BFA in Fiber Art at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
Myeongsoo Kim has studied architecture in Korea prior to coming to the United States in 2002 to pursue visual art. In 2009, he received a BFA with a concentration on sculpture, followed by an MFA at Yale University in 2011. He describes his time spent at Yale as an opportunity to deepen his investigation into the connection between a desire to revive and relive memories and the constantly changing nature of the materials which act as conduits for transference and recollection. Since 2011, he has been actively producing and showing work in New York, Virginia, Philadelphia and Mexico City. He won Nancy Graves Foundation Grant in 2017 and most recently, he had a solo show at Present Company in Brooklyn, NY in 2017.
