Exhibition
Current Exhibitions
Asia Hotel Art Fair
Hong Kong 2014
www.hotelartfair.kr
Unveil the Truth: Sorrow and Hope of Comfort Women
An Exhibition of the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues
Reception: Friday, November 30, 6-8 pm (Artist Talk starts at 7 pm)
Dates: Monday, November 26th - Friday, December 14th , 2012
Venue: Mason Hall Atrium Gallery at George Mason University
4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Contacts:
- Jungsil Lee, Ph.D. Curator (www.artrious.com)
- atriolee@gmail.com (301-755-7067)
- Walter Kravitz, Gallery Director of George Mason University
- ekravitz@gmu.edu (703-993-4375)
Unveil the Truth: Sorrow and Hope of Comfort Women brings together works created by the distinguished Korean, Japanese, and American artists who have been deeply concerned with Comfort Women issues and have expressed the relating themes in their artistic forms. "Comfort Women" is the name given to those drafted into sexual slavery by the Japanese military occupation in Korea during World War II. This exhibition is to address the injustice of sexual violence based on historical facts and to exhibit the pain and trauma these women suffered physically and mentally. To prevent future war-related crimes and to remind the world about basic human rights, these artists narrate and symbolize the stories in various forms of media such as photograph, drawing, painting, print, film, performance, and installation.
The participating artists are Yong Soon Min, Yoshiko Shimada, Sasha Yongju Lee, Arin Yoon, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Steve Cavallo, In-Soon Shin, and Yongmi Song Organ.
This exhibition is proudly co-sponsored by The Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues (WCCW), non-profit organization, andKorean Studies Center, George Mason. WCCW believes that the Japanese government must clearly acknowledge its responsibility for crimes against Comfort Women, and should officially apologize to these victims.
Curated by ArTrio, a leading company of global art exhibition, special education, and art related information exchange. The exhibition curator Jungsil Lee, Ph.D. is President/ CEO of ArTrio, and adjunct professor at Towson University and the Corcoran College of Art + Design.
Green Life & Sacred Earth: Korean Washingtonian Female Artists
Aug 31 - Sep 23, 2012
Workhouse Arts Center
9601 Ox Rd. Lorton, VA 22079
The exhibition “Blurring Boundaries” will be a group exhibition of Han-Mee Artist Association (HMAA), a non-profit artistic organization that consists of Korean American artists who have immigrated to Washington D.C. metropolitan area, U.S. during the last couple of decades. The Title of “Blurring Boundaries” refers their artistic endeavor out of the needs for integration into the American society in their specific ways. Due to their diverse cultural background they have explored their artistic identities as a flexible continuum of negotiable possibilities. This task requires to blur and to overcome the fixed boundaries between Korea and America, Asian and western culture, old traditional Korean art and a new contemporary attempt.
East-West Confluence: In celebration of the Lunar New Year
VisArt, The Kaplan Gallery
155 Gibbs Street, Suite 300 Rockville, MD 20850
To celebrate the Lunar New Year in Rockville community, VisArts organizes the exhibition that shows the confluence of eastern aesthetics and western artistic sensation produced by eight American contemporary artists. This exhibition includes Xiaosheung Bi, Nina Chung Dwyer, Suzi Fox, David Gerlach, Kevin A. Hluch, Sumita Kim, Komelia OKim, and Evan Reed. Reflecting their various ethnic origins and different artistic media, these artists express the awareness of their cultural diversity, and conglomerate East and West in their own unique artistic styles. This confluence is derived from a pervading tendency of hybrids. The term ofhybridity usually refers in its most basic sense a mixture, and it originates from a biological term. Currently, it turns into an identity issue and cultural discussion. Key theorist of hybridity, Homi Bhabha analyses the concept in his book The Location of Culture (1994) in terms of a flow of different cultures that both give and receive from each other. Consequently, it creates “syncretism” or leads to “multiculturalism.”
In a similar sense, the eight artists express their artistic states of being and arrive at the merging through the innovative mixing and appropriating of ideas and motives from other cultures. This art of confluence focuses on the blending and synthesis of various cultural motives and ethnic sources that come into contact with one another. East-West Confluence consists of 38 works of painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramic, and mixed media. Through this exhibition the participating artists devote their creative efforts with their own artistic identity to the exchange of ideas and thoughts between East and West. In this globalized world where a communication is occurring instantly while cultures and information are colliding and melding as never before, our goal for this show is to provide a venue for an art transcending boundaries of the East and West.
Bio Art: Encounter of Art & Science
Korea-Maryland, U.S.A. Bio Expo 2011
Nov 1 – Nov 4, 2012
The Baltimore Convention Center
1 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201
In Baltimore Bio Expo 2011 organized by JGBLI, two seemingly different disciplines, art and science, unexpectedly meet. The exhibition titled, “BioArt: Encounter of Art & Science” will be a group exhibition of 13 American visual artists whose works explore the synergistic overlapping of art and science, specifically Biology. Bio Art describes the variety of art forms in which artists use as their medium and/or inspiration, biotechnology, genetics, ecology, plants, animals, and other life forms, be they living, semi-living, or artificial. Many bioscience-related companies and organizations are participating in the Expo, allowing the participants to experience this new artistic expression of biomedical technology, and to be inspired by nouveau domain and strategy to promote their products and companies in 21st century.
