Lots of stuff happening -

Kazumi Shiho

So lots of things are happening next three weeks.

I started my installation at SCAD-Atlanta as a featuring alumnus for its Open Studio Night. I will be showing my recent paintings as well as my floor installation. I will be staying here at school for most of the night tonight. -_-;;

SCAD Open Studio Night in Atlanta

Thursday, Nov. 11th, 7 - 9pm

http://www.scad.edu/news/2010/open-studio-night-atlanta.cfm

This weekend, I will be participating in BETA Spaces (Bushwick Exhibition Triangle of Alternative Spaces) 2010. Andrea Liu, whom I met at Ox-Bow artist residency, has put four artists from the the residency to do a show. I am thrilled to see some of my favorite, amazing artists from Ox-Bow again and re-visit and re-evaluate my piece I did at the residency. And... I will be in NYC!

Post Ox-Bow: Siteless 

The Naxal Belt in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago Ox-Bow residency is pleased to reunite Fall 2010 artist residents of Ox-Bow for the Bushwick Exhibition Triangle of Alternative Spaces (BETA) Spaces Festival. The unique container of Ox-Bow allowed these artists an openness to a radical intervention into their thinking about art-making, where practices re-form, recapitulate, breakdown and collide. Revisiting the historical de-monumentalization of sculpture from mimesis and representation to Krauss' "expanded field," these sculptors work in varying configurations of materials, process and time; exploiting, elongating and reconfiguring the instabilities inherent in the art object. Jared Buckhiester, Kazumi Shiho, Gyun Hur, Ting Ying Han

Naxal Belt - 175 Jefferson St. #1L, Bushwick, NY
Curated by Andrea Liu

12-7pm
Performance 6:30PM
Artists Talk 7:00PM

http://artsinbushwick.org/beta2010/showdirectory/post-ox-bow-siteless/

And then my installation for the Hudgens Prize Finalists Exhibition will start next week. (Isn't that a bit crazy...?) I will post more stories and photos as the installation progress at the Hudgens Center. I am very thrilled and honored to be a part of this grouping of artists whom I respect. For more information about the prize and the artists, check out http://thehudgens.org/?page_id=1209. You will see an awkward photo of me and some blurbs about artists. The artists are Hope Hilton, Scott Ingram, Jiha Moon and Ruth Dusseault, and they are super rocking artists.


More updates to come...




- G.

Swamped!

So as soon as I got home in Atlanta, I got swamped with things!

This week, I got a part time job (yes, everyone, I have a job!) and went around for a few art happenings in the city.

Jeff Koon came to Atlanta to speak this week. He spoke at the Atlanta Symphony Hall and it was full!!! I never have seen that many people coming out for an artist lecture. He indeed... proved his superstar popularity here in the city.

Then I saw a beautiful exhibition of Dali's Late Work at the High Museum. Great stuff.

The highlight of this week was when I saw a performance at the Emory Performing Center called The Hysterial Alphabet.

The Hysterical Alphabet is an interdisciplinary, multi-media performance by artist collective Theater Oobleck based on the book written by Terri Kapsalis. I ended up going there out of curiosity and spontaneity, and it was absolutely fantastic. A fascinating interpretation on women and hysteria - the last episode was memorable. A woman kept walking back and forth (video edited) in black and white screen while a performer read about... hysteria, inner psyche of that woman. Reading was witty and beautiful, film images intriguing... one of those art nights that make you want to go to your studio and do more work. After the performance, of course, I talked to the artist/writer Terri Kapsalis how wonderful everything was. Then I walked to my car, alone, sucking and chewing every possible image and sound from that piece as if it were to disappear. And tonight, I had a dinner at Jiha's. She makes one of the best Kimchi soups and I had two bowls of it!

Moustache, 2003

Go to High Museum to see the show!

Dali

The Hysterical Alphabet