Project Gallery

Tides of Resilience, 2021-22

In Tides of Resilience, the works on view reference botanical elements found in public gardens, using the format of layered hand-cut and lasercut prints. The works often reflect on the juncture between private space and public built environments. For example, I am interested in the often problematic cultural representations of botanic gardens, which embody many different histories and colonial perspectives.

Stereotyped Ordinary, 2018-20

Stereotyped Ordinary is an ongoing series about public botanical gardens and their stereotypical depictions of cultural otherness. The installation of these elements is three-dimensional conversions of layers of paper cuts and digital/hand-pulled prints, with the shadow plays. The lights and cuts on the paper project intricate lights and shadows onto the gallery walls and space. As the materials suspend and drape from the ceiling in different directions, these shadows expand, contract and distort in various ways. This series in solo or group settings reveal how seemingly natural representations around us are fabricated in such way to make us believe in certain systems and ideologies.

Dazzle Dazzle, 2017-18

Dazzle Dazzle. 2017. Pigment inkjet print, lasercut wool felt and handcut pigment print, Installation view in Focus 1 Gallery at Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Nov. 3 - Dec. 20, 2016.

Dazzle Dazzle project at Forth Worth Community Arts Center includes color photo lithographs and layered hand-cut pigment inkjet prints. The visual forms in this exhibition are derived from Dazzle (disruptive) camouflage patterns used in war ships during World War I and the Colonial Botany. By means of these choices, I look for creating a sense of fragility in memories and in illusions of the world we believe.

In Transition, 2016

In Transition. 2016. Pigment inkjet print, lasercut wool felt and handcut pigment print, Installation view in Forum Gallery at Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, TX. Jan. 11 - Feb. 3, 2016.

For the exhibition in Forum Gallery at Brookhaven College, I continued developing my interest in home combined with botanical elements found in American public gardens. I added plant forms and built structures from conservatories in gardens to existing housing patterns.

Brookhaven Courier Exhibition Coverage

Hello House, 2015

Hello House. 2015. Lasercut wool felt and pigment inkjet prints, Exhibition view at dtc Gallery in Daejeon Terminal Complex, Korea. Aug. 7 - Sep. 20, 2015.

In August, I set up my first public space exhibition, Hello House, at dtc Gallery at Daegeon Terminal Complex in South Korea. In this show, I presented individual materials used for my other installations as if they are ingredients of food. The juxtaposition of cutout felt and digital prints underscores the question of whether the ideal home is a tangible subject or illusion.

Exhibition Review on Daejeon Culture and Arts Foundation Webzine
Coverage on CMB Daegeon TV Culture Talk Talk
Coverage on CMB Daegeon TV Discovery of Information

Capriccio, 2015

Anomalous Traces. Handcut pigment inkjet print, latex paint, Installation at Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC. May 15 - June 13, 2015.

Capriccio (an architectural fantasy) focuses on the ideal home through prints, lasercut wool felts and their three-dimensional conversions. The reality of finding ideal home is explored through American norms. My work is based on my childhood memories from Korea and everyday encounters of standardized residential buildings, including my West Texas living experience. Like an animal’s camouflage, this homogeneity provided her with a means to blend into my neighborhood. My installations of large-format prints and lasercuts are based upon patterns created from cookie-cutter homes found in Lubbock, Houston and other global locations. The rows of houses and floorplans become abstract constructs subject to gravity and shadow play surrounding the materials, questioning whether the ideal home is a tangible subject or an illusion.

Charleston City Paper preview about the show
The Post and Courier featured article about the show

Superficial Outgrowths/Emergence, 2013-14

Superficial Outgrowths exhibition view. Lasercut wool felt, latex paint, pigment inkjet print, Installation at Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX. Nov. 22, 2013 - Jan. 11, 2014.

Superficial Outgrowths incorporates large-format prints and lasercuts that are based upon patterns created from cookie-cutter homes found in Lubbock, Houston and other global locations. As in an animal’s camouflage, this homogeneity provided me with a means to blend into my neighborhood. Wearable forms were created from these prints by collaborating with an apparel designer, Su-Jeong Shin.

Houston Chronicle article about the show
Emergence exhibition catalog. May 14-June 12, 2014

Trace reTraces, 2012-13

Mimicry exhibition view. 2012. Lasercut wool felt, latex paint, 38 x 35 inches each, Installation at Pratt Gallery @ TK Studios, Seattle, WA.

During my Artist Residency at Seacourt Print Workshop in Bangor, Northern Ireland, I developed my interest in ideal home into a realm of global community. Photographs of homes in Bangor and seaside towns at the edge of urbanization and tradition are transformed into organic and geometric patterns, using lasercut wool felt and screenprints.

Anomalous Traces, 2011-12

Anomalous Traces. 2011. Offset lithograph, lasercut wool felt, latex paint, Dimensions variable, Offset lithographs published by Vermillion Editions Ltd., Installation at UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX.

This project explicates how politics in education and urban planning have influenced our way of thinking and visual perceptions by arranging prints and lasercuts within the gallery space to simulate the notion of ideal home as a tangible subject vs. illusion.