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Casting Memories Artists:
The AHL Foundation is pleased to announce its eighth Annual Visual Arts Competition Exhibition, Casting Memories, featuring works by this year's first winner, Sung Rok Choi, and six other artists chosen by distinguished jurors Linda Norden and Joel Carreiro.
Fantastic Lonely Heart: Hyong Nam Ahn Time: December 2nd 2011-January 6th 2012 Opening: Tuesday, December 6th 2011 6:00-8:00 p.m. Curator: Soojung Hyun
Hyong Nam Ahn's installation, "Fantastic Lonely- Heart," is a simply composed sculpture and a kind of site- specific installation using eclectic materials with neon. The central image in Ahn's work represents a human being, constructed modestly, using cut and carved metal wires and neon that includes white and blue luminous lights to express strong diagonal lines. The structure is designed in relation to the interior space of the Lab gallery at the corner of Lexington Avenue and Forty-seventh Street in midtown Manhattan. Although the materials in Ahn's work, such neon and metal wires, look similar to decorative elements of commercial spaces employed in the vicinity of Lexington Avenue, the image of his work appears beyond any standard form of illumination. Rather his work meets our inner intuition and stimulates our spiritual pleasure. The light exposed in the space constitutes an allegory on the alienation of human beings and their resistance to time. Light is as magical as it is transcendent. It reads as a sign of hope, longing, and fulfillment. As an internal metaphor, the light of Ahn's work refers to a state of consciousness or an imaginative process.
Hyong Nam Ahn has lived and worked in the United States since 1973. He holds a BFA (1978) in Painting & Experimental Art and an MFA (1980) in Sculpture with Kinetics from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A recipient of several awards, he works as a sculptor and installation artist.
Exhibition Title: Signature Tunes AHL Foundation is pleased to present Signature Tunes, an exhibition of works by three artists, Jayoung Chung, Tara Cronin, Hyong Nam Ahn, curated by Liz Kwon. The artists in this show commonly deal with natural occurrences and human relationships in their own artistic mediums.
On The Verge 511 West 25th Street 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10001
Artist Ji Eun Kim, Eunjung Hwang, Heejung Cho, Keosang Yoo, Ha Lee  Ahl Foundation and Dean Project are pleased to present ON THE VERGE, an exhibition of the works of the five Korean artists selected by the jury of the Seventh AHL Foundation Visual Arts Competition. In descending order of prizes awarded, the winners are Ji Eun Kim, Eunjung Hwang, Heejung Cho, Keosang Yoo, and Ha Lee. Addressing a diverse range of subjects from combat soldiers to domestic geography, subconscious dreams, and institutional aspects of our dwelling spaces, the artists of On the Verge present a critical visual commentary on global contemporary culture through a variety of media – animation, installation, collage, and painting. For some of these artists, this will be their debut exhibition in New York. The three jurors for this year’s competition were Linda Norden, Curator; Benjamin Genocchio, Editor-in-Chief at Art+Auction; and Thomas Arnold, Director of Mary Boone Gallery. On The Verge is curated by Hyewon Yi, Director of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery. Ji Eun Kim’s paintings and collages zero in on emblematic, isolated details of urban habitation – facades, vacant lots, development sites. She interchanges imagery of underlying structural elements of buildings with their exterior shells, offering architecture as the evidence of urban decay as well as the metaphor for reconstruction. For On the Verge, Kim will construct a site-specific collage, Dumpster Korea (2011), referencing the disposable high-rise apartment buildings of Korea. Eunjung Hwang’s animated digital videos and drawings are constructed in complex sequences rooted in her subconscious. Rather than rely on linear narrative, Hwang’s forms mimic the rhythm and structure of musical scores. For this exhibition, Hwang will present Future Creatures (2010), a low-tech animation video that utilizes hand-drawn characters. Heejung Cho’s Brooklyn Street (2010), made of plywood, wooden sticks, and wood stain, recreates the look of a residential street in Brooklyn in perspectival relief form on the gallery wall. Mapping the geography of a New York City neighborhood, Cho brings to bear her memories of personal experiences. Despite their apparent crudity, the carved surfaces charm the viewer with intimate intricacy. Keosang Yoo presents Honeycomb (2011), a multimedia installation utilizing six video monitors. Turning the image of Capital Hill in Seoul, Korea into a beehive replete with buzzing sounds, the work suggests a satirical comment on greedy politicians at work, yet the artist also points out the necessity of individual activity to the existence of the group. Repetition is a quality Yoo frequently uses in his high-minded multi-media video and sound creations, in which he combines hand-drawn images with low-tech objects. Ha Lee presents Pretty Dictators, a nine-panel painting series crudely stitched in printed fabric of fluorescent colors. His images appear as comically caricatured figures with a kitsch-like quality, although his subject matter is serious, as he portrays dictators and political figures both current and past, including Osama Bin Laden, Adolf Hitler, Kim Jung Il, Hu Jintao, Vladimir Putin, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, and Barack Obama. ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Ji Eun Kim holds a BFA and MFA in painting from Seoul National University. She also earned an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Since moving to the United States in 2007, Kim has lived in Detroit and Cheyenne, Wyoming, amongst other places, where she has compared architectural development with what she observed in Korea. Her solo shows include Planned Obsolescence, at Brain Factory (2010), and Hermit Crab-ism, at Alternative Space Loop (2011), both in Seoul, Korea. Her residencies have played an important role in her artistic development, which she compares to the way in which a hermit crab moves its body to a larger shell when it grows. Her residencies include Vermont Studio Center and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Kim is looking forward to joining the Taipei Artist Village this summer as an artist in residence. After studying English literature at Yonsei University and painting at Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea, Eunjung Hwang earned an MFA in computer arts at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her animations have been screened and exhibited in many venues in the United States (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Detroit) and abroad (Germany, Korea, Spain, Austria, Australia, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Japan, Ireland). Hwang is a recipient of numerous awards and residency grants. Her most recent solo show, Eunjung Hwang: Three Thousands Revisits, was presented at University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany. After receiving a BFA in sculpture at Seoul National University in Korea, Heejung Cho received an MFA in Visual Arts at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Since 2005, Cho’s works have been included in many exhibitions, mostly in New York, as well as a solo show and a group exhibition in Beijing, China and Seoul, Korea. She participated in the AIM program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2009. Currently, Cho is a resident artist at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York. Keosang Yoo received a diploma in postgraduate studies from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. After studying environmental sculpture at the University of Seoul, Yoo moved toward works combining electronic media and sculpture. He has participated in many group exhibitions, including the 23rd European Media Art Festival (2010) and Contemporary Art Ruhr (2011) in Germany. His solo shows include Media Story in Suwon, Korea (2009) and Repetition in Cologne, Germany. Ha Lee earned a BFA in painting and an MFA in sculpture at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. He has worked as an editorial cartoonist for Korean newspapers, and has published about thirty series of short animated movies for Internet newspapers and websites over the decade before he moved to the United States in 2007. Established in 2003, AHL Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Korean and Korean-American artists living in the United States by promoting exposure of their work in today’s competitive contemporary art world. In 2004, the foundation created an annual art competition open to all artists of Korean ancestry who are living in the United States. This exhibition is made possible by the generous support and sponsorship of AHL Foundation Inc (www.ahlfoundation.org), a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization. The exhibition is also sponsored by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Paradise Foundation, Hey!Korean, Korean Cultural Services, and The Korea Times New York.^ Top Allegory of Music 51 Bergen Street 2nd Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Artist Hyong Nam Ahn
AHL Foundation is pleased to announce “Allegory of Music”, a solo exhibition by Hyong Nam Ahn . This is the first Open Studio Project to promote Korean- American Artists. Hyong Nam Ahn is well known for his distinctive and illuminating sculptures and paintings. He has developed his works with diverse materials like aluminum, metal board, neon, and fluorescent tubes since he has began making in the late 1970s. His works are composed of three-dimensional figure which are informal, and rhythmical shapes painted with Abstract Expressionists’ gestural brush stroke. His works show liberal images, flexible lines like the flowing sound of music. His works don’t share common boundary between sculptures and painting. The works are beyond the concept and style of traditional sculpture, as well as some of his works would be estimated as the domain of Installation art. The combination of energetic lines and bright color creates a cheerful atmosphere which is emitted by spontaneous correlations between materials and artist’s inner energy. Hyong Nam Ahn is a person who is filled with pure love in his soul and body. He has a critical point about the rapid spread of civilized life, industrialization, mass production and wants to pursue humanist values in his art. He said, “Most of my recent works are based on subliminal objects inspired by natural occurrences such as moonlight and migrating birds. This natural source inspires my core.” He emphasizes on maintaining an equal balance between spiritual and material realities. What is the role of Art at the center of the civilized and material culture? Artists transform from the nihilistic tendencies to the sublimed art works which are like a caution sign and healing message for helping people. Ahn has lived and worked in the United States since 1973. He holds an MFA(1980) in Sculpture with Kinetics and a BFA in Painting & Experimental Art (1978) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has worked in the fields of sculpture, installation, and public art installation. He earned Illinois Project Completion Grant (1982), Scholastic National Drawing Contest, First Prize Award (1974). Ahn has received numerous commissions for public sculptures from notable institutions and corporations such as McDonald Corporation in Kirkland, WA; The Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art & Culture, Baltimore, MD; and McCormick Place Donnelly Hall World Convention Center, Chicago. Also he has shown in many solo and group exhibitions in Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Tweed Museum in MN, Jamaica Cultural Center in New York, etc.
Pretty Dictators Vs. Pretty Leaders 125 East 4th Street (bet. 1&2 Ave)
New York, NY 10003
Artist Ha Lee
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