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"IT'S A SMALL WORLD" December 8, 2005 through March 13, 2006 |
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Curated by: VERONICA MIJELSHON and JULIE PEPPITO |
It's a Small World is a group exhibition organized by NURTUREart Non-Profit Inc. in collaboration with www.gallerythe.org and co-curated by Julie Peppito, artist and independent curator and Veronica Mijelshon, NURTUREart Gallery director. Using metaphor, humor, illusion, light and narrative, each of the artists chosen from the NURTUREart artist's slide registry - Jiyun Park, Cheo Park and Juye Han - create a separate site-specific installation for one of three window front spaces at gallerythe.org in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. The installations in It's a Small World speak to the universal notions of loneliness, communication/miscommunication and culture that have always connected us to one another. |
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CHEO PARK Artwork Bio Statement |
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Cheo Park creates miniature structures and people that mimic the common architecture and activities of daily life. By installing these mini worlds in common places his sculptures point out the bittersweet humor, monotony and loneliness that exist in the repetition of our daily routines. |
"Untitled" [left] 2005 wood, acrylic on clay "Untitled" [right] 2005 wood, glass, acrylic on clay |
"Untitled"[detail] |
"Untitled"[detail] |
"Untitled"[detail] |
"Untitled"[detail] |
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JUYE HAN Artwork Bio Statement |
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Juye Han's sees her work as an extension of herself, reflecting the confusion and contradictions in her own mind: "I am nothing and at the same time I am something, only I don't know what." Han works with vinyl because its dual properties aid her in creating a world of illusion. Vinyl breaks up space yet, at the same time, does not. |
"Amnesia" [front view] 2005 vinyl, colored resin |
"Amnesia" [side view] |
"Amnesia" [detail] |
"Amnesia" [detail] |
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JIHYUN PARK Artwork Bio Statement |
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Jihyun Park's work is based in the misunderstandings that have occurred as a result of him speaking English as a second language. Park's sculptures and installations are visual translations of puns taken literally that are humorous, ironic and surreal. |
"Chicken & Broccoli" 2005 Gouache on paper |
"Chicken & Broccoli" [detail] 12[w] x 2 1/2 [d] x 64[h] |
"Chicken & Broccoli" [detail] 12[w] x 3 1/2 [d] x 62[h] | "Chicken & Broccoli" [detail] 12[w] x 2 1/2 [d] x 64[h] |
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