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A THEORETICAL EXPLORATION OF SOUND IN CONTEMPORARY KOREAN ART BY SVA ALUMNI
July 8 - 22, 2006 Reception: Tuesday, July 11, 6 - 8pm
School of Visual Arts (SVA) and SVA Korean Alumni Association present “Sóu-Lí/Sound,” an exhibition of works by 48 South Korean artists who graduated from SVA. Curated by sculptor, installation artist and SVA alumna Jong Yuen Ahn (1992 MFA Fine Arts).
“Sóu-Lí/Sound” focuses on three ranges of sound: high frequency, human range and low frequency. In the words of Ahn, whose work taps the unique properties of light and water to explore culture and memory, “All things in the world have their own sound. Higher frequency sound emanates from the heavens, human range frequency is produced within the realm of human activity, and lower frequency sound - sound produced by nature - comes from the earth.” The exhibition will feature work in a variety of media, including photography, illustration and computer art.
“Sóu-Lí/Sound” will introduce American audiences to both established and emerging artists from South Korea, some of whom continue to live and work in their native country and others who have settled in the U.S. or Canada. Among the artists who have returned to Korea are Sun Kyung Cho, Kyung Ja Kim and Yong-Kyu Lee. Among those artists who now call the U.S. home are Jen Kim, Soyeon Cho and WonJung Choi.
Jong Yuen Ahn (MFA 1992 Fine Arts) has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in New York, Japan and China as well as her native Korea. A pervading theme in much of her work has been different aspects of light - projection, reflection, and refraction - both as a substance and a material. She is best known for Sound of Light, a series of indoor and outdoor installations completed in Seoul and Pusan, Korea.
Participating Artists
Esther Ahn 2002 BFA Photography Jong Yuen Ahn 1992 MFA Fine Arts Woojung Ahn 2003 MFA Illustration Kyong-Won Winnie Cheon 1999 MFA Illustration Soyeon Cho 2004 MFA Fine Arts Sun Kyung Cho 1993 MFA Illustration Jae Eun Choi 1991 MFA Illustration Sun Young Choi 1995 BFA Illustration, 1997 MFA Illustration WonJung Choi 2004 MFA Fine Arts Myung 1998 MFA Fine Arts Oki S. Han 1991 MFA Illustration Sang Hoon Han 1996 MFA Photography Ji Seon Hwang 1998 MFA Fine Arts Jeong-Keun Jin 1995 BFA Photography Eun-Jung Jung 1999 MFA Photography Hessng Jung 1997 MFA Computer Art Changhyeon Kim 1998 MFA Photography Hyejin Kim 1993 BFA Graphic Design Hyungseok Kim 1993 BFA Photography Jen Kim 1997 MFA Fine Arts Jinchul Kim 1992 MFA Fine Arts Jung Sun Kim 2000 MFA Illustration Kyung Ja Kim 1996 BFA Fine Arts Kyung-Joo Kim 1999 MFA Fine Arts Si-Yeon Kim 2001 MFA Fine Arts Soo-Jeoung Kim 1993 BFA Graphic Design YeonJung Kim 2004 MFA Computer Art Yong Sik Kim 1992 MFA Fine Arts Young Su Kim 2000 MFA Illustration Dong Hwan Lee 1998 BFA Photography Jae Gil Lee 1995 BFA Photography Jake Joonhee Lee 1993 MFA Illustration Joo Hyoung Lee 1997 BFA Photography Suk-Yeon Lee 1995 MFA Illustration Tae Hoon Lee 1996 BFA Photography Yong-Kyu Lee 1995 MFA Fine Arts Youn H. Lee 1996 MFA Computer Art Young Joo Noh 1998 BFA Illustration, 2000 MFA Illustration Chung Hwan Park 1998 MFA Fine Arts Jinsil Seo 2004 MFA Computer Art Dong-Sook Shin 1997 BFA Fine Arts EunJoo Shin 2005 MFA Computer Art Hee Kyoung Song 2004 MFA Computer Art Seong Im Yang 2004 BFA Graphic Design Dong-Kwan Yoo 1997 MFA Illustration Hee Young Yoo 1995 BFA Photography Ju Hyun Yoo 2004 MFA Computer Art Youngjae You 2004 MFA Computer Art
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601 West 26 Street, 15th floor New York,
NY 10001 212.592.2145
The Visual Arts Gallery is SVA's premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, it comprises four state of the art galleries and a large terrace with a commanding view of Lower Manhattan and the Hudson River. Staffed by six full-time professionals, Visual Arts Gallery offers select students the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work in the same environment as some of the country's leading artists--a number of whom have exhibited there as well.
Since the Visual Arts Gallery moved from 137 Wooster Street in Soho to its present location in 2004, it has exhibited works by renowned SVA alumni such as Renee Cox, Inka Essenhigh, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Lazzarini, Sol Lewitt, Vera Lutter, Elizabeth Peyton, Alexis Rockman, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson and Sara Sze, Works by Richard Avedon, Milton Glaser, Anish Kapoor, Stefan Sagmeister, Sebastiao Salgado have also been exhibited at the Visual Arts Gallery.
SVA students of every discipline derive great educational benefit from being able to study the work of celebrated artists, hear them speak at lectures, or even get the chance to meet them in person -- all right here at the College.
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