Patterns: Orlando Boffill, Heelim Hwang, Donghee Lee
Curated by Sunny Shin
October 12, 2015 – February 11, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, October 16th, 5 – 7pm
Venue: BBCN Bank Woodside Branch
50-15 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, NY 11377
AHL Foundation is pleased to have PATTERNS Exhibition at BBCN Bank Woodside Branch from October 12th, 2015 through February 11th, 2016. This exhibition is a group exhibition by Orlando Boffill, Heelim Hwang, and Donghee Lee. Curated by Sunny Shin, director of Art Mora. All three artists have distinguished repeated form or design in their artworks. Orlando Boffill’s paintings contain symbolized objects such as a round face, a shoe, fish, and a map of Cuba. The comb-pattern style of Heelim Hwang’s paintings are created by various combined colors. Donghee Lee builds up webs with hot-glue and creates abstract sculpture and installation.
Orlando Boffill (Born in 1964, Havana, Cuba) is a painter with a degree in Art History from the University of Havana. He has participated in more than forty exhibitions both in Cuba and abroad, and has had eight solo exhibitions. He worked as an art critic in the gallery of the “Municipality of October 10” and has written several articles about art. He has conducted many conferences where he was the main art speaker. In 2007 Boffill taught the workshop “de Arte Plasticos” to a group of students from “the Faculty of Arts University of Georgia” during their stay in Havana, as part of its Socio- Cultural Studies in Cuba. In 2010 he worked as a background painter in the French movie: “Of Return To The Past.” Currently, Art Mora represents Orlando Boffill in U.S. and Asia.
Born in 1987 in South Korea, Heelim Hwang is a young emerging Korean artist. Hwang earned her BFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 , where she is currently enrolled in the Master of Fine Art program. Parts of Hwang’s works are extremely decorative, integrating patterns into space with saturated colors. Hwang attempts to create visual atmospheres that allow for complex and contradictory influences. She pulls from various sources of inspiration, including Indian miniature paintings, biological structures, children’s toys from thrift stores, and over-saturated neon lights of Seoul.
Donghee Lee is a Korean artist living in the U.S., where she has earned her M.F.A. and B.F.A. at Long Island University. Lee participated in five solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions in South Korea and the U.S.. As a leader of the artist group H.O.V. (High of Visual Art), Lee has curated exhibitions and participated in art fairs. Regarding her artwork, Lee has said “I choose symbols of the creation of life because this represents generative power and the mysteries of our physical and spiritual realities. My art is about transformation and the infinity within us.”
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