Tides of Resilience by Sangmi Yoo
August 15, 2021 - January 15, 2022
Texas Tech University System Administration Building
1508 Knoxville Ave, Lubbock, TX 79410 (map)
Phone: 806-742-3800
My prints and installations are based on iconic images that are created through personal memory, simulating the perception and memory from a collective experience. I have developed my interest in tract homes combined with botanical elements found in public gardens, using the format of layered hand-cut and lasercut prints. I am interested in the juncture of private space and public built environments, such as Botanic Gardens, stereotypical public places in the US and its territories, such as Puerto Rico. Cultural representations of botanic gardens are interesting and problematic as they embody many different histories and colonial perspectives still residing in our everyday life.
I have used constructed paper panels, laser-cuts felts and various digital, traditional and post-digital printmaking techniques. The visual forms in this exhibition are derived from Dazzle (disruptive) camouflage patterns used in war ships during World War I. Dazzle ship camouflage used in World War I by a British marine Artist, Norman Wilkinson, makes it difficult to estimate a target’s range, speed, and heading. With the pandemic and the ever-changing political climate in global relationships in recent years, these patterns resonate the interferences and intersections being part of this tension.
By means of these choices, I look for creating a sense of fragility in memories and in illusions of the world we believe while overcoming it through resilience. The overlaying patterns and paper cuts create optical illusions through the cast shadows of the original shapes, which compares the notion of ideal place as a tangible subject to illusion.
Texas Tech University System Administration Building
1508 Knoxville Ave, Lubbock, TX 79410 (map)
Phone: 806-742-3800
My prints and installations are based on iconic images that are created through personal memory, simulating the perception and memory from a collective experience. I have developed my interest in tract homes combined with botanical elements found in public gardens, using the format of layered hand-cut and lasercut prints. I am interested in the juncture of private space and public built environments, such as Botanic Gardens, stereotypical public places in the US and its territories, such as Puerto Rico. Cultural representations of botanic gardens are interesting and problematic as they embody many different histories and colonial perspectives still residing in our everyday life.
I have used constructed paper panels, laser-cuts felts and various digital, traditional and post-digital printmaking techniques. The visual forms in this exhibition are derived from Dazzle (disruptive) camouflage patterns used in war ships during World War I. Dazzle ship camouflage used in World War I by a British marine Artist, Norman Wilkinson, makes it difficult to estimate a target’s range, speed, and heading. With the pandemic and the ever-changing political climate in global relationships in recent years, these patterns resonate the interferences and intersections being part of this tension.
By means of these choices, I look for creating a sense of fragility in memories and in illusions of the world we believe while overcoming it through resilience. The overlaying patterns and paper cuts create optical illusions through the cast shadows of the original shapes, which compares the notion of ideal place as a tangible subject to illusion.
Forward Press: 20th Century Printmaking
Curated by Susan J. Goldman, Presented by the Printmaking Legacy Project®
Left: Anomalous Traces. 2017. hand-cut pigment inkjet print, 60 x 44 x 72 in. Right: Stereotyped Ordinary. 2017. Hand-cut pigment inkjet print, 60 x 44 x 72 in.
April 6 - August 11, 2019
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: (202) 885-1300
Directions
Printmaking Legacy Project’s® first national print exhibition, Forward Press: 21st Century Printmaking features ten innovative print artists from across the country who employ the finest examples of hand printed and digital techniques. They explore themes of culture, identity, religion, environment, memory, and art history. Some work in traditional forms, like lithography, intaglio, relief, and screen printing, while others explore these methods as the basis for large-scale sculpture, collage, and integrating technology into printmaking. These ten artists are changing the way American printmaking is seen and understood.
FEATURING ARTISTS: April Flanders, Tom Hück, Carrie Lingscheit, Beauvais Lyons, Dennis McNett, Michael Menchaca, Richard Peterson, Nicole Pietrantoni, Steve Prince, and Sangmi Yoo.
PRESS:
Washington Post by Mark Jenkins: "At the AU Museum, these 10 printmakers are tearing up the rulebook"
Washington City Paper Review by Stephanie Rudig: "Forward Press at the American University Museum Explores All Manner of Printmaking"
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: (202) 885-1300
Directions
Printmaking Legacy Project’s® first national print exhibition, Forward Press: 21st Century Printmaking features ten innovative print artists from across the country who employ the finest examples of hand printed and digital techniques. They explore themes of culture, identity, religion, environment, memory, and art history. Some work in traditional forms, like lithography, intaglio, relief, and screen printing, while others explore these methods as the basis for large-scale sculpture, collage, and integrating technology into printmaking. These ten artists are changing the way American printmaking is seen and understood.
FEATURING ARTISTS: April Flanders, Tom Hück, Carrie Lingscheit, Beauvais Lyons, Dennis McNett, Michael Menchaca, Richard Peterson, Nicole Pietrantoni, Steve Prince, and Sangmi Yoo.
PRESS:
Washington Post by Mark Jenkins: "At the AU Museum, these 10 printmakers are tearing up the rulebook"
Washington City Paper Review by Stephanie Rudig: "Forward Press at the American University Museum Explores All Manner of Printmaking"
Secret Garden by Sangmi Yoo & Taryn McMahon
Two Person Exhibition
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March 1 - April 24, 2019
Fort Worth Community Arts Center 1300 Gendy Street Fort Worth, TX 76107 Phone: 817-738-1938 Directions Secret Garden is a two-person exhibition by Sangmi Yoo and Taryn McMahon, to be held in conjunction with “Texchange”–Southern Graphics Council International conference to be held in North Texas in March 6-9, 2019. Secret Garden is a place where synergetic energy is intertwined through a collaboration of the two artists whose practices are based on print media and installation. |