AHL Foundation is pleased to present Domestic
Affairs, the 16th winner's exhibition of the AHL - T&W Foundation’s
Contemporary Visual Art Awards, on view from November 7th through December 1st,
2019. This group exhibition features works by award winners Jennifer Moon, Jean
Oh and Mary Laube as curated by Keith Schweitzer (Director, SFA Projects) and
Young Jeon, Assistant Curator (AHL Foundation Curatorial Fellow).
Gold
award recipient, Jennifer Moon, Silver award recipient, Jean Oh, and Bronze
award recipient Mary Laube will present works across a range of styles and
mediums, from painting to multimedia installation. When taken in as a whole, the
exhibition explores elements of home and family life.
A home, at its
essence, is merely a building or structure where people live. It are the lives
that are lived, and shared, within this structure that gives it meaning. A home
may become an anchor and a safe place in a hectic world. The conversations and
events that occur at home, over time, become part of who we are and help form
who we become. Certain objects may serve as metaphors for past events providing
comfort and emotional echoes in our memory.
Each in their own way, the
artists presented here document specific elements of the familial or “home.”
They have created a record of these personal themes, providing a narrative and a
meaningful dialogue as works of art.
Jennifer Moon
is a conceptual artist living in Los Angeles. She/They was born in Lafayette,
Indiana and completed her/their BA at UCLA and Master's at Art Center College of
Design. After Jennifer Moon was incarcerated for nine months in 2008 and 2009
for attempted robbery, she transformed her artistic practice. Moon began turning
inward, drawing from her experiences in creating the Revolution, a movement that
envisions a worldwide shift in thinking through love, presence of mind, and
empowerment. Blending political theory, self-help, and fantasy, Moon uses the
Revolution in performances, videos, writing, and sculpture to share her
unconventional vision with the world.
Jean Oh is an
artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work provides a base for
the viewers to experience the sensitive, emotional statue. She holds a BFA from
MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Oh has
been featured in Saatchi Art Rising Stars Report 2019. Her work presented by
numerous group shows in the USA: 2019 11th Annual Juried Art Show (Riverviews
Artspace, Lynchburg, VA); 2018 Small Work 2018 (Trestle Gallery Brooklyn, NY);
and Concept 2018 (CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.)
Mary
Laube was born in Seoul, South Korea. She received her M.F.A. from the
University of Iowa in 2012. Recent exhibitions and residencies include the
Spring Break Art Show, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NYC), Coop Gallery (Nashville),
the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Stiwdeo Maelor in Wales. Laube is a
co-collaborator of the Warp Whistle Project, an on-going cross-disciplinary
project with composer Paul Schuette. She is an Assistant Professor at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
About AHL
FoundationThe AHL Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in
2003 by Sook Nyu Lee Kim to support Korean artists living in the United States
and to promote exposure of their work in today’s highly competitive contemporary
art world. In 2004, the foundation established an annual competition that is
open to all artists of Korean ancestry living in the United States. AHL awards
four monetary prizes each year and has been mounting bi-annual exhibitions to
display the winning works. Since 2008, AHL has advanced to an annual exhibition
and broadened their scope of diversity and opportunity. In addition to nurturing
Korean art in the US, AHL Foundation is committed to educating the public and
invigorating the Korean community, one of the largest ethnic groups in New York
City, through art history courses offered in the Korean language, special
lectures given by respected art professionals, artist studio visits, field trips
to museums and galleries, and workshops for artists and general
audiences.
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