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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year + Preparation Images








Happy New Year, everyone!

Thank you, friends and family, who have been incredibly supportive this year of 2009.

Some images in preparation for the solo show with Get This! Gallery.
I would like to thank those who have helped me to cut these flowers:

Alice San Young, Lois, Yi-Shin, Tina, Tiffany, Mike, Soon-ok, and Woo...

A few more days of cutting, and I will start the installation for the show. You're welcome to view the installation process from the gallery window.

662 11th. Street, Atlanta, GA 30318 


More details about the exhibition will follow soon...


- G

Thursday, December 17, 2009

New Images -






Some unseen images from A Requiem in the Garden last August.
Photo credit to Tari Beroszi. She's been an awesome photographer for most of my work!

Stay tuned. gyunhur.com will be up soon with updates!



-G.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Wouldn't it be Wonderful? Home as a Gallery?



I have heard of the apartment galleries, mainly the ones activated in Chicago. New York Times posted an article Is It Their Art or Their Shoes? about this phenomenon in the city of New York - making your own apartment into a gallery. What is so invigorating about this idea is that you can support the emerging artists whose work is not market-oriented.

Sarah Gavlak, a gallerist of Art Nest (photos above), indeed is pulling off her daily living space into something beyond - sophistication in her taste of aesthetics and intermingling of her life and curatorial vision. Alex Gartenfeld and Piper Marshall (photo below) also seem to enjoy their space - and look so chilled and inspired. 

One day, one day... when I can afford a living space of my own, I shall open a gallery. And I will invite you all to an art opening! And yes, Atlanta, let's do more of this... wouldn't something like this allow us to be a bit more daring, witty, adventurous, and interesting?






Friday, December 11, 2009

f a m i l y



My family went to a Christmas concert - the magnificence of sound and melodies of chorus and orchestra moved me, allowing me to think of a sacredness of this season of the year.
The reason I can be who I am now - so much credit to my family who has trusted and supported me.

My dad speaks the wisdom of life over a few drinks with me, telling me to be a person with a good heart above all. My brother buys me a dinner once in awhile when I get cranky. My mom started to cut flowers with me and tells me I need to exercise and eat more.

Reflecting this past year, I have felt ever more the love of my family and so glad to be their daughter and sister.

It's now time to cut the flowers again.


- G.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Woman Who Does Only Her Eye Make Up



Woman Who Does Only Her Eye Make Up
by artist Young-hee Kim

It has been about thirteen and half years since I've moved to the States. My fear of a language barrier is almost gone, yet I now fear that I am slowly forgetting my own articulation in Korean. My mom sometimes doesn't understand what I say in Korean, and I constantly find myself using 'Konglish' to my brother and friends. It doesn't mean that I am fully articulate in English either.

I have been reading Korean books for that reason. I especially like the writings of Korean women artists - autobiographic essays. There are things that can be only expressed in a language of my mother tongue, and my heart moves by these artists' words, thoughts, and lives as if they were my own.

Artist Young-hee Kim has been living in Germany for almost 40 years, making paper dolls - mostly children. They unfold the old, nostalgic narratives of Korean village around 1960s and 1970s - I must confess I like her writings much better. I read her writings and nod at her
honest confession of prideful skepticism, struggle as a mother and a foreigner, and endurance and inspiration she gravitates being an artist. She says she wakes up 4AM every morning, thinks about her work, works 8 hours in her studio. I, too, then hope for a life similar to hers - which means to have a relentless passion of creating, youthful heart that feels, a full life as a woman, and a garden that grows all kinds of flowers and vegetables. Following is an excerpt from her book Woman Who Does Only Her Eye Make Up. Translated by me.

"나는 안 그런가. 쇼 윈도에 걸려 있는 풀색 스웨터를 반찬 값 다 털어 사서 며칠 잘 입다가 갑자기 배추벌레 터진 색깔 같아 구역질을 하며 멋어 내던지지 않았던가. 날씨가 흐린 날은 죽었으면 좋겠다며 찔찔 울고, 화창한 날은 사는 게 뭐 이러냐고 허전해 한다...

신문 받아 들면 이쪽을 봐도 골치 아프고 잘 모르겠고, 저쪽을 넘겨도 싱숭하고, 그 다음 저쪽을 봐도 별로다. 게다가 의심까지 많아 코방귀 퀴퀴거리기만 한다. 공부는 했던 여자라 보기는 해야겠는데 대충 본다... 모르는 데다, 건방지고, 믿지 않는다. 그저 마늘쪽이나 아낄 줄 알지..."


"Am I not that same? Didn't I use up all of my grocery money for that olive colored sweater from a show window, wore it well for a few days, then threw it away as puking because I felt the color was like an explosion of a cabbage worm. When the weather is gray, I sob bitterly wanting to die; when the weather is bright, I become lonely complaining about my life.

When I pick up the newspaper, one corner gives me a headache and I don't even know what it is about. The other corner seems aimless and next page doesn't interest me. Furthermore, I just snort at them with my doubts. I just pretentiously skim through the articles for I am an educated woman. I am uninformed and prideful, and I am a skeptic. I just know how to be stingy with the garlic pieces..."







Thursday, December 3, 2009

Meg Aubrey's new 'suburbia' paintings

I just became a fb friend (!!!) with Meg and saw her new series of suburbia paintings. Her paintings are a lot more subdued in their hues and each woman in bare landscapes of suburbia neighborhood is painted so correctly. How can I explain with my limited sense of writing... Meg can depict these women and lives so truly, because it comes from her own.

You can view more of her paintings at www.megaubrey.com.



Morning Paper, oil on canvas, 12"x36", 2009


Suburban Morning, oil on canvas, 12"x36", 2009


Soccer Mom Line Up, oil on canvas, 38"x64", 2009


Just for an additional visual reference and a further discussion if you would like -



- G.





Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Supporting Art and Myself +







Art House in Castleberry held an interesting show Rebuild - artist Emily Duke. I regret I did not take any photos from the show, but a collection of architectural and somewhat raw 2D drawings and 3D sculptures was refreshing at least to my eyes. Pealing myself out of the often-seen-it-before paintings in Atlanta, I immediately drew myself near to the works of Michigan-based artist Emily Duke. Her narrative sculptures were a mixture of clay, cork, plaster, wood, and strings, some layers tightly tied, some architecturally stacked... they were witty, handsome, warm, and somewhat amiable. I totally would have bought some for my future house.

Her drawings had enough attraction and accessibility to pursue me, and I did it - making the very first 'art' purchase. It is a beautiful drawing that was affordable for me to acquire. In the midst of transitioning myself from a student to a professional something, this acquisition of drawing meant quite significant to me. It perhaps was a symbolic gesture of how I would like to support myself as well as art. How ideal, how fantastic that would be...!

Friends, I highly would like to encourage you to support the young artists by going to their shows and, if possible and affordable, acquiring their art works !!!






On my way to a Korean bakery Maum on Pleasant Hill Road, I took some brief photo shots. I've forgotten... how inspiration comes from these brief moments, transforming the norms of daily encounters into something different and beautiful. Suburban roads can be beautiful, so can my mother's hair curled in rolls, the harshest scratches of my gray jeep, the student loan payment letters, my green water bottle, a dog at my work place, unexplainable complexion of this thing called... life...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

re.sume |riˈzoōm|

verb [ trans. ]
begin to do or pursue (something) again after a pause or interruption : a day later normal service was resumed.

Gyun is resuming
- in things like blogging, making art, making more friends, updating a facebook status, replying to e-mails. I am glad life is resumable. I am glad that it's up to my own will, a choice that I make for myself to resume. And it works the best for me that way.

Past few weeks, I have been letting the toxins out of my body with flu (not swine flu, thankfully) and other bad sickness. I can walk straight now and there isn't much pain in body. Thanks to my wonderful chiropractor who tells me to correct my lifestyle basically. Each time I go, I get mesmerized by x-ray images of my own body on a light box. "It's an inspiration!" I would exclaim to the doctor and she tells me I'm funny.

While I was recovering, I have been up to a few things, thankfully, like going to a few art shows, celebrating my dad's 60th b-day, karaoke-ing, and counting pennies.





Here are some photos from A Garden Under the Moonlight, Le Flash 2009.






Photography by David Foster, collaborated with Juri Onuki

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Me.My.Self Exhibition at B Complex







Check out Me. My. Self Exhibition at B-Complex this coming Saturday. One of my performance photographs "Another Requiem" will be exhibited with an array of other 'self' photographs.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 26th
6PM - 9PM

Location:
1272 Murphy Ave
Atlanta, GA, 30310
Phone:
404.753.1853



Monday, September 21, 2009

Interview WIth Art Relish -




Interview with Jason Parker (Art Relish) about my show A Requiem in the Garden.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Radcliffe Bailey at Solomon Projects






Shout out to Radcliffe Bailey... my former mentor.


Solomon Projects
GALLERY HOURS

Summer Hours:
open by apointment only
June / July / August


1037 Monroe Drive
Atlanta, Georgia 30306

parking available behind the gallery

phone 404. 875. 7100
fax 404. 875. 0270

info @ solomonprojects.com

Sunday, September 13, 2009

De-Installation





In comparison to 4 full days of installation, de-installation took comparably a shorter time - 4 hours. I could not have done it without help of my great friends: Grey Won, Heesoo unni, Ukari Umekawa, and Audrey Ward!!!

Completely done, including moving my two years of stuff from the studio and apartment back to my parents house. Unsettling, but incredibly excited about things to come!

Stay tuned for my visits to gallery openings, interviews, new series of drawings, and projects...!!!


- G.

Monday, August 31, 2009

A Requiem in the Garden Images




A Requiem in the Garden opening reception at the Stokes was a blast! Great turn out with many friends, professors, and visitors...! Thank you so much for those who came out to support...! Gallery Stokes put up some images of the show. You can check them out at www.gallerystokes.com.

I decided to post some installation process photos. Staci Stone was an incredible helper in sprinkling the shredded cemetery flowers for two entire days. Thank you, Staci!
More photos will be posted with some writings about the work, so please stay tuned!

- happy G. since she's completely done with her MFA.