Public Lecture by John Yau, Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University)
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
@ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel
*Free admission
The lecture will present a trailblazing sculptor and accomplished professor, John Pai, whose artworks and influence spans disciplines, institutions, and continents. Moved to the US when he was 12 years old and raised by an American family in West Virginia, John Pai is one of the first Korean contemporary artists to make waves in the United States, with his welded mesh-like steel sculptures that garnered attention from the wider contemporary art scene.
About the lecturer
John Yau is a poet and critic who has published numerous monographs and books of criticism, including A. R. Penck (1993), In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993), The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (2006), A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (2008). Catherine Murphy (2016), Thomas Nozkowski, (2017), The Wild Children of William Blake (2017), and Philip Taaffe (2018). His most recent book of poems is Genghis Chan on Drums (2021). Since 2012, he has contributed regularly to the online magazine Hyperallergic. He is a professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University) and lives in New York.
AHL Foundation and Korean Cultural Center New York’s collaborative Public Lecture Series aim to provide the general public, as well as the Korean American community, with the opportunity to learn diverse theoretical perspectives on issues related to Korean art and culture and to reflect further on future interactions between Korean art and various worldwide global communities.
Organized by the AHL Foundation in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York
