Veronica Juyoun Byun Common Ground - Uncommon Visions at hpgrp Gallery June 2012.AVI
Loveed Fine Arts is pleased to present in collaboration with hpgrp Gallery New York
VERONICA JUYOUN BYUN
Common Ground -- Uncommon Visions
Exhibition dates: June 7 - July 14, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, June 7, 6-8 pm at hpgrp Gallery NY, 529 West 20
th Street
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11 am-6 pm
The first solo exhibition in New York of Korean-born sculptor Veronica Juyoun Byun will be on view at hpgrp Gallery, NY at 529 West 20th Street from June 7 through July 14, 2012. Common Ground -- Uncommon Visions will feature seven large wall reliefs as well as intimate-sized figures and abstract constructions. Veronica Byun was born in Seoul, Korea, but has spent the better part of her adult life studying in the United States and this East/West divide has fueled a diverse visual culture and provided fodder for her visions as a young sculptor.
Borrowing visual themes from traditional ornamental craft geometries and color, Byun playfully expands and layers them into bursting and bubbling abstractions that dazzle the eye. It is clear from this exhibition that Byun embraces color and unabashedly shiny surfaces, which is somewhat rare in contemporary ceramics. Primary colors are deeply rooted in Korean and Buddhist traditions as sources of protection and enduring paradise on earth, and are at play here in Byun's work. She seemingly stirs up her sources, and like most post-modern American artists, creates her own visual vocabulary. Separate but playfully equal are Byun's choices for titles. Misty Dawn, Serenity after Sunset, and Shimmering Sea at Sunset suggest naturalistic themes while Lotus Saint Prayer, Passion Series, and Exotica seemingly bow respectfully to the spirituality and the meditative state practiced by Zen masters. My Shoes contains a certain pop art quality in its serial imagery of common objects. Passion Series #1 and Exotica are composed of abstract nests of forms, charged with an array of colors, as if their components were dashed against the wall or floor and are suddenly blossoming in the artists' own garden of delight. Byun's ever modular large scale wall works can ambitiously stretch out in unlimited formations or can contract to accommodate an appropriate wall space, says Ronald Kuchta, former director of the Everson Museum and a current ceramic curator. This format bringing together traditional and non-traditional schemes and symbols confers a certain metaphorical aspect to Byun's work as if the artist is on a journey to investigate the human condition.
Byun currently lives and works in New Jersey. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI and her BFA from the New York State of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. She has exhibited both nationally and
internationally in galleries and public institutions in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Providence, Seoul, Varazdin, Croatia, Austria, and in Dae-Jeon City, Korea. She was recently selected in the Special Exhibition Artists Entries at the 2012 Korean Art Show in New York and has been invited to exhibit at the upcoming Special Exhibition at KIAF2012 in Korea. Byun's alluringly erotic installation, Memoirs of a Lady will be featured in the Visual Art Fellowship Awards Exhibition at The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ from June 8 through September 9, 2012. Her work can also be found in numerous private and
corporate collections including the recently large scale commissioned murals in the collection of the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.
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Princeton Artists Alliance • Pine Barrens Exhibit
The Princeton Artists Alliance has the honor of exhibiting their show Pine Barrens Rediscovered at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ. The exhibition will be on display until May 30, 2010
Nature and artist collaborate to express visions and interpretations of The New Jersey Pinelands. The Princeton Artists Alliance explored the pinelands on their hands and knees and in the air to understand the vastly unique qualities of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Interpretations in sculpture, mixed media, photography, and painting describe the ecosystem and its dramatic importance in our region. The exhibition is accompanied by information from the New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
Visit:
Exhibiting Artists: Joanne Augustine, Hetty Baiz, Joy Barth, Anita Benarde, Rajie Cook, Dan Finaldi, Clem Fiori, Tom Francisco, Carol Hanson, Shellie Jacobson, Margaret K. Johnson, Nancy Kern, Marsha Levin-Roger, Charles McVicker, Lucy Graves McVicker, Harry Naar, James Perry, Linda Pochesci, Madelaine Shellaby, Marie Sturken, Barbara G. Watts
Photographer Wendel A. White: Small Towns, Black Lives
Southern New Jersey is home to several historically black communities that are documented in a book by Wendel A. White called Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in South Jersey. Over ten years, the Stockton College professor and photographer took photographs and wrote text that together provide a complex look at the people, businesses, historic landmarks, landscapes, and other features that make up historically black communities such as Whitesboro and Lawnside. This 2003 State of the Arts story goes on location with White, and meets some of the subjects of his photographs in conjunction with his exhibition at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, New Jersey.
Chandri and Athea Barat, Robert Doherty, Tom Nussbaum
Taped at the Newark Museum, Chandri and Athena Barat of the Barat Foundation discuss the unique ways their organization is using the power of the arts to transform the Newark community.
Taped at Newark Museum, Joanna Gagis speaks with Robert Doherty, NJ State President at Bank of America, to discuss how the financial institution is encouraging individuals to explore the arts and culture in their communities.
Taped at the Newark Museum, New Jersey acclaimed artist Tom Nussbaum talks about his extraordinary work and what fuels his creative passion.
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