- Exhibition Dates: June 18 – June 30, 2022
- Venue: AHL Foundation, Inc.
- 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY 10030
- Opening Reception: Saturday, June 18, 5-7pm
- Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6PM
- Free and open to the public
New York, NY – AHL Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting contemporary artists of Korean descent, is proud to announce the opening of its 2021yr AHL – T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards Winners Exhibition: A Brave New World, featuring three artists, Jin-Yong Choi, Areum Yang, and Jiwon Rhie.
Now in its eighteenth edition, the 2021 year’s awards were juried by Leeza Meksin (Assistant Professor of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University), Marshall Price (Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University), and Hallie Ringle (Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art).
The exhibition, titled A Brave New World and curated by Leeza Meisin, guides audiences to a new world by creating a way to interpret and understand this world through their work. Jin Yong Choi creates objects related to shamanism with the idea of the ‘digital shaman’, rebuilding an apocalyptic concept of the future. Areum Yang looks at how to fill and transform daily sceneries into another world by embodying emotions and feelings through her paintings. Jiwon Rhie breathes new air into the space with everyday objects such as beds and furniture.
About the Artists
Jin Yong Choi Sib-Seong, Sib-ill-Seong and Sib-O-Seong Bang-ul, bug zepper, brooch, zingle bell, found object, epoxy clay, 22″x14″x2.5″, 19″x12″x4″,18.5″12″x2″, 2021-2022
Jin Yong Choi is a New York-based artist born in South Korea. Choi received his BFA from Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea and MFA from Pratt Institute in New York. Based on his apocalyptic narratives, he explores and experiments with tactile desires and a sense of materiality in sculptural forms and installation. By fabricating objects with intriguing materials, combining digital and non-digital images, and adding lots of details to them, he wants to create a unique experience that arouses haptic desires and a heightened sense of materiality that can only be experienced in the real world. Choi’s artwork has been exhibited in South Korea and the U.S., including the Seoul Museum of Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), Shin Gallery in New York, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, A.I.R Gallery in New York, and Wassaic Project in New York.
Areum Yang, Forest Series, acrylic, oil pastel, pencil on paper, 40″x32″, 2020
Areum Yang is a New York-based painter who has been visualizing various emotions and feelings through her gestural and expressionistic paintings. Her works were presented in several group shows; We Were Already Gone at Hauser & Wirth, UUU Art Collective, Family Portrait and Summer Soup. She received her MFA at Hunter College in 2021.
Jiwon Rhie, Stranger (Kyrre1), Kyrre stool purchased at IKEA, 17″x18″x13″, 2020
Jiwon Rhie (New York, NY) is a Korean multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her work deals with diverse subject matter exploring ideas of boundaries, human relationships, identity, and communication. Rhie has been selected to the Bronx Museum of Arts A.I.M Fellowship and Queens Art Fund Award. She received a BFA from Hongik University, Hannam University, and an MFA from Pratt Institute.
About The Curator
Leeza Meksin is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art, and multiples. Meksin has created site-specific installations for The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (2019-20), The Brooklyn Academy of Music (2018-19), National Academy of Design (2018), The Uptown Triennial at The Lenfest Center for the Arts (2017), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), The Kitchen (2015), BRIC Media Arts (2015), Regina Rex (2014, 2010), Brandeis University (2014), the former Donnell branch of the New York Public Library (2011), and a National Endowment for the Arts-funded project in New Haven, CT for Artspace (2012). In 2015 Meksin received the emerging artist grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and in 2019 was awarded an artist residency at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Her work has been featured in Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Tribune, and The Village Voice, among other publications. In 2013 Meksin co-founded Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective in Brooklyn that she continues to co-direct. From 2015-2021 Meksin taught in the Visual Arts program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and in 2021 she joined the faculty at Cornell University in the College of Architecture, Art, Planning (AAP).
About the AHL- T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards
Established in 2003, the Contemporary Visual Art Awards is an annual competition open to all contemporary artists of Korean descent active in the United States and is part of AHL Foundation’s core program. The awards recognize the work of exemplary young emerging contemporary artists of Korean descent and provide them with a monetary prize and the opportunity to have their work presented at a group exhibition in New York. Since 2016, the award has been generously supported by the T&W Foundation, established by Wonsook Kim and Thomas Park Clement
For media inquiries, please contact:
Jiyoung Lee jlee@ahlfoundation.org
알재단, 2021년도 현대미술상 수상 작가전
A Brave New World (멋진 신세계) 개최
- 전시 기간: 2022년 6월 18일(토) – 6월 30일(토)
- 갤러리 운영 시간: 수-토 오후 12-6시
- 장소: 알재단 갤러리(2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd. New York NY 10030) ● 기획: 리자 멕신(Leeza Meksin)
- 참여 작가: 최진용, 양아름, 이지원
- 오프닝 리셉션: 2022년 6월 18일(토) 오후 5-7시
비영리 한인 미술인 지원 단체 알재단 (AHL Foundation, 대표 이숙녀)이 2021년도 AHL-T&W 현대미술상 수상 작가전을 오는6월 18일(토) 알재단 갤러리(2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd. New York NY 10030)에서 개최한다.
Ortega y Gasset Projects의 공동 설립자이자 코넬대학교 미술과 조교수로 재직 중인 리자 멕신이 기획한 본 전시 “A Brave New World (멋진 신세계)에서는 21년도 AHL-T&W 현대미술상 수상자로 선정된 최진용, 양아름, 이지원 작가의 조각, 설치 및 회화 작품을 만나 볼 수 있다.
묵시적인 미래상을 다시 창조하는 아이디어로 ‘디지털 샤먼’과 샤머니즘에 관련된 오브제를 만드는 최진용, 회화 작업을 통해 감정과 느낌을 구체화하여 공간을 다른 세계로 채우고 변화시키는 방법을 바라보는 양아름, 침대, 가구 등 일상적인 물건으로 공간에 익숙하지 않은 새로운 공기를 불어넣는 이지원. 이 세 작가는 자신의 작업을 통해 이 세상을 해석하고 이해하는 길을 만들어 새로운 세계로 관객을 안내한다.
최진용(Jin-Yong Choi) 작가는 국민대학교와 프랫 인스티튜트(Pratt Institute) 대학원을 졸업했으며, 묵시적인 내용을 바탕으로 조각의 형식과 설치를 통해 촉각적인 욕망과 물성을 탐구하고 실험하는 작업을 하고 있다. 흥미로운 소재로 사물을 제작하고, 디지털 이미지와 비디지털 이미지를 결합하거나 나아가 디테일을 추가하는 등 촉각적 욕구를 불러 일으키는 독특한 경험과 실제에서만 경험할 수 있는 물질성을 다룬다. 서울시립미술관, 국립현대미술관, 뉴욕 자메이카 아트 센터(Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning), A.I.R. 갤러리 등 서울과 뉴욕에서 작품을 선보여왔다
양아름(Areum Yang) 작가는 2019년부터 뉴욕에서 거주하며 표현주의적 회화 및 제스처를 통해 다양한 감정과 느낌을 시각화하는 작업을 해왔다. 데렉 엘러(Derek Eller) 갤러리 개인전, Hauser & Wirth의 ‘We Were Already Gone’ 전 등 다수의 전시에서 작업을 선보여왔다. 2021년 Hunter College 에서 회화로 석사 과정을 졸업 하였으며, 2022년 여름 스코히건 회화 조각학교(Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture) 레지던시 프로그램에 참여할 예정이다.
이지원(Jiwon Rhie) 작가는 프랫 인스튜티트에서 MFA를 취득했으며 경계, 인간 관계, 정체성 및 의사 소통에 관한 아이디어를 탐구하는 다양한 주제를 다루는 작업을 전개하고 있다. 나스 파운데이션(NARS Foundation), 버몬트 스튜디오 센터(Vermont Studio Center) 등 레지던시 프로그램에 참여했으며, Bronx Museum of Arts A.I.M Fellowship 및 Queens Art Fund Award에 선정된 바 있다.
한편, 2003년 알재단의 설립과 동시에 시작된 현대 미술 공모전은매년 미국에서 활동하는 한국계 미술인이면 누구나 지원 할 수 있는 알재단의 대표 프로그램이다. 2016년 부터는 중견 화가 김원숙씨와 토마스 클레멘트(Thomas Park Clement)씨가 설립한 T&W 재단의 후원으로 운영하고 있다.
