Public Lecture by Joan Cummins

Lisa and Bernard Selz Senior curator of Asian Art at the BrooklynnMuseum

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Korean Cultural Center(460 Park Avenue, 6th Floor, NYC)

*Free admission

Artist Kwang Young Chun combines hundreds of paper-wrapped parcels to create sculptural compositions, called Aggregations, that look like crystal formations, asteroids, or the surface of the moon. The Aggregations draw on the artist’s training in abstract painting as well as memories of his childhood, when Korean apothecaries sold medicine in similar little bundles.

Following a nine-month exhibition of Chun’s work at the Brooklyn Museum, Joan Cummins discusses the artist’s work: its deep roots in Korean tradition, its disruptions of Korean traditions, and its place within the international worlds of abstract art and assemblage.

The lecture takes place less than one week after the Brooklyn Museum opens its new galleries for Arts of China and Arts of Japan. Dr. Cummins will discuss the Museum’s strategies and plans for display of contemporary art by Asian artists, and the implications and repercussions of showing Chun’s work in the Museum’s Arts of Korea gallery.

AHL Foundation Public Lecture Series 2019 In Collaboration with Korean Cultural Center New York

 

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Joan Cummins is a scholar of the art of India, Joan Cummins joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2007. From 1998 until 2005, Dr. Cummins was Assistant Curator of the Department of the Arts of Asia, Oceania, and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and until 2006, served as a consultant to the MFA. She received a B.A. from Brown University and M. Phil and M.A. degrees from Columbia University, where she was also awarded a Ph.D. Early in her career, she was a research assistant at the Brooklyn Museum in the Department of Asian Art. She has lectured and published widely and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. She is the author of Indian Painting: From Cave Temples to the Colonial Period, recently published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dr. Cummins was coordinating curator of Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770–1900, presented at Brooklyn in the spring of 2008.

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AHL Foundation and Korean Cultural Center New York’s collaborative Public Lecture Series aims to provide the general public, as well as the Korean American community, with the opportunity to learn diverse theoretical perspectives on issues related to Korean art and culture and to reflect further on future interactions between Korean art and various worldwide global communities.

 

Organized by the AHL Foundation in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York