Calm
Venue: Bank of Hope Woodside
Address: 50-15 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377
Date: November 14, 2018 – February 24, 2019
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 9am – 5pm
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Artists: Jeannie Choe, Nam Sook Kwon, Kwija Cho, Hojong Yu, and David Park
Curated by Margaret Tae, Co-Curated by Jeannie Choe
AHL Foundation, in collaboration with KACAL, is pleased to present Calm, a five-person group exhibition at the Bank of Hope Woodside Branch from November 14, 2018 through February 24, 2019.
This exhibition features artists Jeannie Choe, Nam Sook Kwon, Kwija Cho, Hojong Yu, and David Park, members of the Korean American Contemporary Arts, Ltd. and curated by AHL Foundation’s 2018 Curatorial Fellow Hyeong-Seong ‘Margaret’ Tae, showcasing a series of mixed media works and abstract paintings.
These artists reflect on their artistic interpretation of self-contemplating the natural world and their respective experiences with nature, the universe and the perspective of man in everyday life.
David Park presents abstract oil paintings on the theme of inner peace. Park creates his works regularly as if like a diary entry, a session where he decompresses and empties his thoughts. Park introduces his philosophy of working towards happiness by maintaining inner peace. The artist induces the viewers, as he would to himself, to reflect on their own image of peace.
Jeannie Choe simplifies the intricacies of the natural world made by God into a visual language. Choe presents abstract mixed media pieces that decode the complex subtlety of nature they perceive through the changing forms and colors.
Kwon Nam-Sook focuses their works on trees found in the wilderness. How their structure overcomes the devastating power of nature, standing firm against the wind, the changes in the season, and the changes in our climate. Sook contemplate the trees ability to protect the world around them and realize the value of human life created by God reflected in them.
Kwija Cho depicts his experience of the aurora borealis seen through the windows of an airplane as he flies over the Icelandic sky. Cho captures the aurora as he saw it, imagined as a dreamy dance in the sky, a view never to be forgotten.
Hojong Yu exhibits complex works inspired by nature’s energy and its infinite structure and form. It replicates the world’s dynamic nature and its ability to change constantly. The work abandons structure to introduce itself into the infinite and the artists own start into breaking into the infinite.
The show is part of AHL Foundation’s Art in the Workplace program, which aims to present contemporary artworks outside of a gallery setting in a public space for the purpose of bringing art into every day life and increasing its exposure to the public. Calm will be open to the public on Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5p.m at Bank of Hope Woodside branch, 50-15 Roosevelt Avenue until February 24, 2019. The opening reception will be held on Wednesda,y November 14th, 2018 from 5p.m. to 7 p.m.
For information: info@ahlfoundation.org
