Three Korean Artists Transcend Cultural
Boundaries in Exhibit
At Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus in October
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta or Helen Saffran
September 9, 2002 |
Brooklyn, N.Y. - "Between Places," an art exhibition
at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus in October, features the
work of three Korean artists whose experiences of displacement from
their native land has had a distinct impact on their works.
The exhibition takes place at the Brooklyn Campus's Salena Gallery
from October 1 to October 31. A reception for the artists will be
held on Wednesday, October 2 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Salena Gallery,
in conjunction with a day-long conference on the Asian Diaspora. All
events are free and open to the public.
Though different in their chosen medium of artistic expression,
Sung-Ho Choi, Myong Hwa Jeong and Eunsuk Joo have been motivated by
their common experience of being outsiders, and by the challenges
of creating a new place of belonging.
As an installation artist, Choi's artistic goal is to reveal "contrasting
identities in a society that is becoming more multicultural."
His quilt-like collage of ethnic newspapers engages these issues in
universal terms. Choi received a B.F.A. from Hong Ik University in
Seoul, Korea, and an M.F. A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Jeong, a multimedia artist, is concerned with specific urban landscapes
and imaginary sites associated with them. The artist's most recent
work, "Come Back to Pusan Harbor," focuses on the question
of relocation of culture and its translatability. "My work attempts
to map connections between past and present, here and there, using
points that occupy both "real" and "imaginary"
planes," says Jeong, who earned a B.A. from Yonsei University
in Seoul and an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts.
Joo's work, through portrait photography, draws attention to places
and contexts. The Asian women photographed in "Noraebang"
find a sense of home in artificial places. Joo studied at the Seoul
Institute of Art and received an M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University
School of Art.
Gallery hours are from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
and Saturday/Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information,
call (718) 488-1198.
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