Dates: September 17 – 30, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 17, 2011 5-8 PM
(Performance by Jayoung Chung at 6 PM)
Place: AHL New York / Foundation, Inc. 2nd Fl.
The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Curator: Liz Kwon
Artists: Jayoung Chung, Tara Cronin, Hyong Nam Ahn
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.
Some sort of formatic rhythm that responds to living things and their relations can be found in the works of three artists.
Multimedia artist Jayoung Chung often incorporates drawings and Gayageum sound she creates, into her programmed installations. The sound made by her performance or viewers’ movements, generates meditative images on the screen. Constantly changing the shape of the moon and ocean swells are her main subject matter. Chung has been developing not only the technical aspect of her installation, but the idea how the nature evolves the human’s emotion and thoughts.
The photographs of Tara Cronin, at a glance, look like delicate abstract paintings but those photographed images are the subjective elements of the nature. While battling hospitalizations during her college years, she became interested in how our bodies are composed of and what is happening beneath the psychological developments. Her work is about the things that separate, connect and overlap between people.
Hyong Nam Ahn’s work is focused on the emotional status, as he believes art is about human beings and their relationships. It is quite a natural consequence that he is influenced by nature and music. Using metal, neon and paint, his recent work embraces the greatest subject ‘love’ expressing all kinds of human relations. Since he creates forms and colors very spontaneously, his work reveals the cruciality of artist’s state of mind during the creating process.
Artists’ Bios
Jayoung Chung received a Masters degree from ITP(Interactive Telecommunications Program) at New York University (2010), BFA from Seoul National University(2005) and Ewha Woman’s University(2003). She has exhibited including at the La Mama Gallery, Glasslands Gallery, The Red Room, Culturehub, and Issue Project Room in New York City; the New Media Festival, the Seoul Arts Center, and HCI Design Conference in South Korea; and the Dot Mov Festival in Sapporo, Japan.
Tara Cronin earned her BA in Writing at New School University and MFA from the International Center of Photography-Bard Program in New York City. Her mediums often include photography, video, drawing, writing, handmade books and installation. Cronin is twice the recipient of the ICP Director’s Fellowship Award Grant Scholarship and has been exhibited in various venues throughout New York City and North America.
Hyong Nam Ahn holds his MFA in Sculpture with Kinetics and BFA in Painting & Experimental Art from 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), Wiebolt Artist Contest, Gold Key Award Scholastic National Drawing Contest, First Prize Award (1974). He has shown in many solo and group exhibitions in Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Tweed Museum; MN, Jamaica Cultural Center in New York, and IHN Gallery in Seoul.
