ASIA WEEK NEW YORK AUTUMN 2024 EXHIBITION
Dyadic | Annette Hur & Hayoon Jay Lee
September 12 – December 13, 2024
Opening Reception: September 12, 5-7pm (kindly RSVP)
In the modern tradition of abstract art, artists look beyond what we physically see. Using color, shape, line, and texture, they express strong emotional content without constraints of representation.
Two Korean-born artists based in New York present their own expositions and elucidations in Dyadic, a duo exhibition. With her bold colors and brushstroke, Annette Hur deliberately positions her paintings in between abstraction and figuration, dealing with the conflicts of the real lived experience and how her body remembers and processes it. Hayoon Jay Lee uses rice as object, motif, metaphor and visceral biomorphic forms, meticulously and meditatively arranging individual grains of rice into a surface with modeling paste to create physical and emotional topographies.
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The Korea Society Gallery is open by appointment only. The appointment must be made at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled visit. To make an appointment, please contact [email protected]
PAST TALKS AVAILABLE TO VIEW ONLINE
Courtesy the Artist
Artist Talk: Hayoon Jay Lee
October 29, 2024
In the modern tradition of abstract art, artists look beyond what we physically see. Using color, shape, line, and texture, they express strong emotional content without constraints of representation.
Hayoon Jay Lee uses rice as object, motif, metaphor and visceral biomorphic forms, meticulously and meditatively arranging individual grains of rice into a surface with modeling paste to create physical and emotional topographies.
In this Artist Talk, Lee will be in a conversation with art critic Seph Rodney about her art and career. View the video online through this link.
Artist Talk: Annette Hur Video Release
October 15, 2024
In the modern tradition of abstract art, artists look beyond what we physically see. Using color, shape, line, and texture, they express strong emotional content without constraints of representation. With her bold colors and brushstroke, Annette Hur deliberately positions her paintings in between abstraction and figuration, dealing with the conflicts of the real lived experience and how her body remembers and processes it. View the video online through this link.
“Anchoring to nothing, my ever-flowing identity as an immigrant female in the United States created the journey to investigate my self-perception, longing and belonging. The urge to release myself from the past traumas conflicts with the yearning for home and the loved ones who are no longer with me. This collision between reality, dreams, and desires resonates through layers of violent hues of colors and boundless yet determined brushstrokes. Water-in nature- as a universally symbolic capricious element, operates as a metaphor for perpetual journeys and reflecting the passing of time.”
Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution
A Curator’s Perspective
Thursday, September 5, 2024
This conversation with with Darnell-Jamal Lisby, who co-curated the exhibition with Sooa Im McCormick from September 5th is now available to view online through this link.
We hosted a conversation on Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution, the current exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art about the history and transformative legacy of Korean fashion. This compelling show presents garments ranging from excavated 17th-century aristocratic garments to contemporary Korean couture by leading and emerging designers, including André Kim (1935–2010); Lie Sang Bong (b. 1954); Lee Chung Chung (b. 1978), for LIE; Lee Jean Youn (b. 1978); and Shin Kyu Yong (b. 1988) and Park Ji Sun (b. 1988), for Blindness.
Through juxtaposing historical and contemporary ensembles, Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution recounts the definition of “couture” from an inclusive perspective, amplifying how tradition has empowered contemporary Korean fashion designers to invent a new artistic language.
Hallyu! The Korean Wave
The Curatorial Roundtable
Thursday, May 16, 2024
This Curatorial Roundtable with curators Rosalie Kim from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Christina Yu Yu from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Yoon-Jee Choi from the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco from May 16th is now available to view online through this link.
Hallyu! The Korean Wave explores the rise of South Korea as a cultural superpower over the last century following its occupation by Japan and the Korean War. It’s the first major exhibition to explore the origins, evolution and incredible impact worldwide of Korea’s pop culture.
The exhibit features approximately 250 objects—costumes, props, photographs, videos, pop culture ephemera, and contemporary works—providing an immersive and multi-sensory journey through a fascinating history, and a celebration of a vibrant creative force that bridges cultural, societal, and linguistic divides and continues to reach new heights today.
Hallyu! The Korean Wave was an exhibition on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through July 28th. First presented at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the show will travel next to the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
