• July 21, 2022 – December 30, 2022
  • Bank of Hope Manhattan Branch (16 West 32nd Street, New York, NY 10001)
  • M-F: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Bank of Hope Business Hours)
  • No opening reception

The AHL Foundation is proud to present Sunhee Kim Jung’s Solo Exhibition, Island, at the Bank of Hope Manhattan Branch (16 West 32nd Street, New York, NY 10001) from July 21, 2022. 

In this exhibition, the artist Sunhee Kim Jung presents her ‘Island’ series, which she started based on her experience of being quarantined due to Covid-19 for the past two years and feeling as if she was isolated on an island. The Island series shows a unique color, brightness,  saturation and arrangement that never overlaps. Sunhee Kim Jung creates a new world with her peerless colors, imagining the island that is so far away. 

“The artist Sunhee Kim Jung started imagining an island isolated during the pandemic, but ultimately the artist created an unique island that evokes various imaginations with her own colors. This is an exhibition that stimulates the sensitivity that whoever can imagine their own island.” Jiyoung Lee, Program Manager of the Foundation said. 

 

About Sunhee Kim Jung 

Sunhee Kim Jung is a Korean-born American painter living and working in Maryland. She is the recipient of the 2019 AHL Foundation: Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant. Currently she is preparing the Mural Project in Thailand for a non-profit organization that houses rescued trafficked children. Jung has been selected by the US Department of State’s Art in Embassy Program for the third time. Four of her paintings were shown at the American Embassy in Rangoon, Burma in 2016-2019. After her residency at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, which helped her to further develop her work, she finished her second residency program at Tong Lau Space in Hong Kong in summer 2018. She finished the Cuttyhunk Island artist residency workshop with Suzanne Brooker in June 2019. She had her 13th solo exhibition at the Carroll Mansion which is the Peale’s inaugural exhibition at its temporary residence. She just finished her 15th solo exhibition at the Maryland Culture and Conference Center in Annapolis Maryland in 2022. She has also exhibited her work in numerous juried shows and solo shows internationally, nationally and regionally including the U.S., Austria, China, Costa Rica, Italy, Hong Kong, Burma, Port of Spain, Switzerland, and South Korea. Jung earned a BFA in painting from Corcoran College of Art & Design, George Washington University and MFA in painting from American University, Washington DC. Jung has taught Art courses at the Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD since 2007.  Jung joined the Board of Directors at the Anne Arundel County Arts Council from 2016-2022. Now she has joined the Board of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, MD. Her paintings have been featured on WNAV radio, The Capital, The Gazette, The Tower Light, The Carroll County Times, Maryland Gazette, What’s up? Media, Washington Woman Magazine, WKTV etc. Her vision is to always strive to expand her work into the limitless territory of modern art. www.sunheekimjung.com

Statement 

For the last 2 years I had a feeling that I was isolated on a deserted island due to the pandemic of Covid-19 but I found some peace ironically in the middle of the isolation. A deserted island is a mysterious place and it certainly can be an isolated location but it can also be a shelter where people can find rest and peace. My paintings represent that place. With each leaf, having its unique color symbolizes all different emotions working together harmoniously with value and intensity in color. Creating a haven for the soul. None of the colors used are used more than once. During 2007-2012, when I had the opportunity to teach Color Theory at a College, I revisited and delved into the theory of color relativity of Josef Albers. He changed how we work with colors and has certainly influenced my recent works, especially the way I juxtapose the different shades of color to achieve different effects. I believe all colors have many different faces. Each viewer can perceive and feel each color differently. A color can be light or dark and the intensity of each color is different as well. By this I mean when the color is bright or dull. In the current series of work, I painted leaves which I believe to have lives similar to human lives. There are leaves of different ages both young and old. To portray this I use bright colors, dull colors, light colors and dark colors. The life of a human has ups and downs. In relation to these moments of feeling, I tried to focus on showing many shades and feelings that the leaves have. Every color has meaning. Colors in the leaves have many different values and intensities, just as human beings do. 

 

알재단, 선희 김 정 작가 개인전  <섬 ISLAND> 

뱅크 오브 호프 맨하탄에서 개최

  • 2022년 7월 21일(목) – 2022년 12월 30일(금) 
  • 장소: Bank of Hope Manhattan Branch (16 West 32nd Street, New York, NY 10001)
  • 전시 시간: 월-금: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (뱅크 오브 호프 맨하탄 운영 시간 내)

*별도의 오프닝 리셉션 없음

 

 비영리 한인 미술인 지원단체 알재단(AHL Foundation, 대표 이숙녀)은 오는 7월 21일(목) 선희 김 정 작가 (Sunhee Kim Jung)의 개인전 <섬(Island)>을 뱅크오브호프(Bank of Hope) 맨하탄 지점(16 West 32nd Street, New York, NY 10001)에서 개최한다.

이번 전시에서 작가는 지난 2년간 Covid-19으로 고립된 생활을 하면서 마치 섬에 갇혀있는 것처럼 느꼈던 경험을 기반으로 시작한 ‘아일랜드’ 시리즈를 선보인다. 작품은 명도, 채도 등 한번도 중복되지 않는 독특한 색과 배열을 보여준다. 작가는 아련한 섬의 풍경을 상상하며 자신만의 색으로 새로운 시간을 창조해 나간다. 

알재단의 이지영 큐레이터는 “팬데믹 기간 고립된 섬을 상상하며 시작한 작업이지만 궁극적으로는 작가가 자신만의 색으로 다양한 상상력을 불러일으키는 섬을 창조했다. 각자 자신의 섬을 상상할 수 있는 감수성을 자극하는 전시가 될 예정”이라고 기획 의도를 설명했다. 한편 작가 선희 김 정은 미국, 워싱턴의 코코란 미술대학교에서 학부를 페인팅으로 전공하고 아메리칸 대학교에서 페인팅으로 석사를 마치고 메릴랜드에 거주하며 화가로 활동하고있다. 14년동안 앤아룬델 커뮤니티 칼리지에서 아트 코스를 강의하고 있으며 홍콩과 미국에서 레지던시 프로그램에 참가했으며, 한국, 오스트리아, 에스토니아, 이태리, 홍콩, 포트 오브 스페인, 버어마, 중국, 스위스에서 개인전 및 그룹전을 했으며 미국무부 주재 아트인 앰버시 작가로 3번 초대되어 9년에 걸쳐 주재미국대사관에 작품들을 전시하였다. 지난 3월 애나폴리스에 위치한 Maryland Conference and Culture Center 에서 14번째의 개인전을 마쳤으며 9월 뉴져지 Paris Koh Fine Arts에서의 개인전을 준비중이다. 뉴욕의 알재단이 수상한 앤드류 & 바바라 최 패밀리 그랜트의 2019년 수상자로, 태국에서의의 벽화 프로젝트를 준비하고 있다.

 본 전시는 알재단의 아트 인 워크 플레이스 (Art in the Workplace) 프로그램의 일환으로, 누구나 일상의 상업 공간에서 한국 현대 미술 작품을 감상 할 수 있도록 알재단과 뱅크오브호프 (Bank of Hope)의 파트너십으로 기획 되었다. 전시는 2022년 12월 30일(금)까지 뱅크오브호프 맨하탄 지점 운영 시간 내(9:00 AM –4:00 PM) 관람 가능 하다. 전시 관련 문의사항은 info@ahlfoundation.org