Sun You: Summer Cut

Venue: Bank of Hope Manhattan
Address: 16 West 32nd Street, New York, NY 10001
Date: August 4th, 2021 – January 31st, 2022
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 9am – 4pm
Curated by: Jiyoung Lee

AHL Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting Korean artists, presents Summer Cut, a solo exhibition of Sun You at the Bank of Hope Manhattan Branch on view from August 4th, 2021 to January 31st, 2022. This exhibition features several multimedia relief paintings by Sun You. Polymer clay, a material often used in children’s crafts, is rolled, pinched, and beaten into shape. The colors and shapes of these various three-dimensional bodies are transferred to paintings using hydrification or acrylic and grouped according to shape and color, its form settling somewhere between a planar painting and a three-dimensional sculpture.

Sun You is a Seoul-born, New York-based artist. You has exhibited her work in galleries and museums internationally. Recent exhibition venues include Geary, NY, The Pit, CA, Step Sister, NY, Queens Museum, NY, The Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Scotty Enterprise, Berlin, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, and The Suburban, IL. You was an artist in residence at Hunter College, Ace Hotel, Marble House Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Triangle Arts Association, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, and the Sharpe and Walentas Studio Program. She was also selected as Artists to Watch in 2016 by WIDEWALLS and 18 Artists to Watch, by Modern Painters, 2015 and a recipient of AHL Grant, Korean Art Foundation, 2018. You is currently working as a visiting professor at the University of Oregon, 2021-2022. You’s artist book, ‘please enjoy!’ with Small Editions, was acquired by the Whitney Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and the NY Public Library. You heads President Clinton Projects, a curatorial project and co-runs a non-profit gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York. She is also a co-founder and core member of An/other New York, a collective of Asian and Asian American visual artists, writers, and curators.