Artist Studio Visit – Heejung Cho
Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:00-2:30 pm
323 West 39th St. #607, New York, NY 10001 (Near Times Square)
Heejung Cho majored sculpture at Seoul National University and earned her MFA in visual arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She was featured in many exhibitions throughout the United States and South Korea including one-person and group exhibitions at Chashama Times Square Gallery, Ho Gallery, Ujung Art Center, and Brain Factory Gallery. She was also a recipient of the AHL Foundation’s Visual Arts Competition in 2010.
Cho was selected for many prestigious residency programs at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Artists in Marketplace at Bronx Museum of the Arts, Beijing Studio Center at BIAC in Beijing, China, and Newark Museum Artist Residency. She is currently invited to Immigrant Artist Program by NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) and is showing her solo exhibition at Ho Gallery in Chelsea. She is also working with the AHL Foundation for its Art in the Workplace program and will exhibit her recent works at BBCN Bank Manhattan Branch in early October.
Cho creates an intricate replica of cityscapes with townhouses, buildings, and streets of New York. Familiar they may seem, they are in fact astounding statements to challenge a centuries-long tradition of perspective techniques and illusionism entrenched in Western tradition of art. Her humorous, yet clever rendering of city streets and residential interiors is anchored on a viewer’s perspective, which is fluid and defying Eurocentric traditions in a subtle manner. Currently Cho constructs more installations using her drawing, painting, and skillful wood carving in a series called Fire Escape, Laundry City, and Perspective.
