• Exhibition Dates: October 8, 2022 – October 26, 2022
    • Curator: Catherine Haggarty / Assistant Curator: Jiyoung Lee
    • Participating Artists: Priscilla Jeong, Kyuri Jeon, Sun You
    • Venue: AHL Foundation, Inc. 
      • 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY 10030
  • Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 4-6pm
  • Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6PM
  • Free and open to the public

 

New York, NY – AHL Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting contemporary artists of Korean descent, is proud to announce the opening of its 2022 AHL – T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards Winners Exhibition: Taking Form, featuring artists Priscilla Jeong, Kyuri Jeon, and Sun You. 

The exhibition, titled Taking Form is curated by Catherine Haggarty, Adjunct Professor at The School of Visual Arts & Co-Founder and Director of The NYC Crit Club. The curator highlights how the three artists visualize communication by choosing different materials, media, and subjects. The exhibition features digital collages, air dried clay paintings and assemblage sculptures that present us with work that reflects the artists’ personal experience as Asian Americans dealing with transit, history, hierarchies, joy, and much more. 

About the Artists

(Image) Priscilla Jeong, Vermillion Red: Workers of Five Point Chamber (Installation View), aluminum, wood, brass, steel, acrylic, thermoplastic, artificial flower, artificial garlic, PLA plastic, pigment, foam, 3d model, 60” x 60” x 6”, 2021

 

Priscilla Jeong (Gold Award) is an artist based in New York. Jeong earned an MFA from Columbia University in 2021. She is a recipient of the 2021 Andrew Fisher Fellowship and the Hayman Visual Arts Gift. She is a recent nominee of 2022 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Selected solo presentations include Ryan Lee Gallery, New York (2019) and Interstate Projects, New York (2016). Recent group exhibitions include Downs & Ross, New York (2022); Colnaghi, New York, NY (2022); School of Visual Arts, New York (2022); The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (2021 and 2020) On Ground Gallery, Seoul (2020); Fisher Parrish Gallery, New York (2018 and 2017); Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2018); and Interstate Projects, New York (2015). She is currently serving as a faculty member at School of Visual Arts, Sculpture in New York City.

(Image) Kyuri Jeon, The-Flesh Witness | 산증인 | 活證人 (still), video, 13:34, color, B/W, stereo, 2021

 

Kyuri Jeon (Silver Award) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York/Seoul. In the form of installation, video, and performance, Jeon explores interconnectedness of language, gender, and identity manifested on the body through the lenses of transnational and intersectional perspectives. Jeon’s work has been featured internationally at venues including MassArt Art Museum, USA; The Institute of Contemporary Art, USA; Artists’ Moving Image Festival, UK; Festival Film Dokumenter, Indonesia; Women Make Waves, Taiwan; and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea. She holds BFA from Korea National University of Arts, and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and Seoul National University. She is a recipient of Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and Second Prize in Asian Shorts Competition, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival.

(Image) Sun You, This One is For You (Installation View), Solo exhibition at l’espace71, Seoul, South Korea Wood, polymer clay, 15” x 146” x 212”, 2016

Sun You (Bronze Award) is a Seoul born, New York based artist. You has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Geary, New York, The Pit, Glendale, Korea Gallery, Korean Cultural Center, New York, Queens Museum, New York, The Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Scotty Enterprise, Berlin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and The Suburban, Chicago. You was an artist in residence at Hunter College, Ace Hotel, Marble House Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Triangle Arts Association, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and the Sharpe and Walentas Studio Program. You’s work has been featured in many publications including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Korea Times, Modern Painters, and Widewalls. You heads President Clinton Projects, a curatorial project and co-runs a non-profit gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York. She is also a co-founder and core-member of An/other New York, a collective of  Asian and Asian American visual artists, writers and curators.

About the AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards 

Established in 2003, the Contemporary Visual Art Awards is an annual competition open to all contemporary artists of Korean descent active in the United States and is part of AHL Foundation’s core program. The awards recognize the work of exemplary young emerging contemporary artists of Korean descent and provide them with a monetary prize and the opportunity to have their work presented at a group exhibition in New York. Since 2016, the award has been generously supported by the T&W Foundation, established by Wonsook Kim and Thomas Park Clement

For media inquiries, please contact:  

Jiyoung Lee jlee@ahlfoundation.org 

 

 

알재단, 2022년 현대미술상 수상 작가전

Taking Form (형상화하다) 개최

    • 전시 기간: 2022년 10월 8일(토) – 10월 26일(수) 
    • 갤러리 운영 시간: 수-토 오후 12-6시 
    • 장소: 알재단 갤러리(2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd. New York NY 10030)
    • 기획: 캐서린 하가티 & 어시스턴트 큐레이터: 이지영
    • 참여 작가: 프리실라 정, 전규리, 선 유
  • 오프닝 리셉션: 2022년 10월 8일(토) 오후 3-6시 

 비영리 한인 미술인 지원 단체 알재단 (AHL Foundation, 대표 이숙녀)이 2022년도 AHL-T&W 현대미술상 수상 작가전을 오는 10월 8일(토) 알재단 갤러리(2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd. New York NY 10030)에서 개최한다. 

본 전시 “Taking Form”은 스쿨 오브 비주얼 아트 (The School of Visual Arts (SVA) 교수이자 The NYC Crit Club 설립자 겸 디렉터인 캐서린 하가티(Catherine Haggarty)가 기획하였으며 올 해의 AHL-T&W 현대미술상 수상자로 선정된 3인, 프리실라 정, 전규리, 선 유 작가의 조각 및 비디오 영상 등 다양한 멀티미디어 작업을 만나 볼 수 있다. 큐레이터는 작가 3인이 각자 다른 물질과 매체, 주제를 선택하여 커뮤니케이션을 시각화한다는 점에 주목했다. 전시에서는 작가 3인이 미국에서 한국계로서 겪은 다양하고도 개인적인 경험을 형상화한 디지털 콜라쥬, 공기를 활용하여 건조시킨 점토, 아상블라주 조각을 선보인다. 

참여 작가 

프리실라 정 (Priscilla Jeong)은 뉴욕을 기반으로 활동하고 있으며 Columbia University에서 MFA를 취득했다.  2021년 Andrew Fisher Fellowship 및 Hayman Visual Arts Gift의 수상자이자 2022 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant의 후보로도 선정되었다. 뉴욕 Ryan Lee Gallery (2019) 및 Interstate Projects (2016) 등에서 개인 프로젝트를 진행했으며 그룹전으로는 Downs & Ross, New York (2022); Colnaghi, New York, NY (2022); School of Visual Arts, New York (2022); The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (2021 and 2020) On Ground Gallery, Seoul (2020); Fisher Parrish Gallery, New York (2018 and 2017); Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2018); and Interstate Projects, New York (2015) 등에서 참여한 바 있다. 현재 스쿨 오브 비주얼 아트 (School of Visual Arts)에서 교수로 재직하고 있다.

전규리 (Kyuri Jeon)는 한국예술종합학교에서 학사를 펜실베니아대학교와 서울대학교에서 MFA를 취득하였으며 뉴욕과 서울을 기반으로 활동하고 있다. 융복합 아티스트로서 설치, 비디오, 퍼포먼스를 활용하여 초국가적이고 교차적인 관점에서 신체에 나타난 언어, 성별, 정체성의 상호 연결성을 탐구한다.  MassArt Art Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Festival Film Dokumenter 를 비롯 한국 DMZ국제다큐멘터리영화제 등에서 작품을 선보여왔다. Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship을 받았으며 서울국제여성영화제 아시아단편콩쿠르에서 2위를 수상했다.

선 유 (Sun You)는 서울에서 출생하여 뉴욕을 기반으로 활동하고 있다. Geary (뉴욕), The Pit (글렌데일) 퀸즈미술관 (뉴욕)을 비롯 뉴욕 한국문화원과 한국의 한가람 미술관, Scotty Enterprise (베를린), The Suburban (시카고) 등 전 세계 미술관 및 갤러리에서 작품을 활발하게 선보이고 있다. 선 유 작가는 또한 Clinton Projects 의 창립자이자 비영리 예술 갤러리인 Tiger Strikes Asteroid  New York 공동 운영자이다.  미국 내 아시안 시각 예술, 작가 및 큐레이터 콜렉티브인 An/other New York 의 공동 창립자이자 핵심 멤버이기도 하다.

한편, 2003년 알재단의 설립과 동시에 시작된 현대 미술 공모전은 매년 미국에서 활동하는 한국계 미술인이면 누구나 지원 할 수 있는 알재단의 대표 프로그램이다. 2016년 부터는 중견 화가 김원숙씨와 토마스 클레멘트(Thomas Park Clement)씨가 설립한 T&W 재단의 후원으로 운영하고 있다.