Gallery Chun's Upcoming Exhibition - Crossing the Thresholds:Difference and Desire

            Gallery Chun is pleased to present Crossing the Thresholds, an exhibition concentrating on the works of five artists who are trying to transcend barriers, for art has the ability to transcend barriers like nothing else.  Each artist puts the viewers in the new terrains bridging different time, space, period, fields, and genres by pouring out their own perceptions and interpretation onto their works.

Human beings have been obsessed with overcoming the limit and differences that they are confined to.  They are the pioneers of what is new and different.  In this respect, art has been the most cohesive power of crossing thresholds without notorious interests.

Crossing the Thresholds means through the art works, artists have freely crossed the gap of time, culture, places, etc. How have the artists tried to cross the limit between where they have been and where they could not have reached at? The art world and its creators never pursue the same genres, styles, and contexts. the exhibition it accompanies concentrate on the works of five artists who are trying to transcend barriers, for art has the ability to transcend barriers like nothing else.  Each artist puts the viewers in the new terrains bridging different time, space, period, fields, and genres by pouring out their own perceptions and interpretation onto their works.

Young Min Choi’s work is categorized under the larger theme of human relationships. His paintings portray his complicated emotional relationships he encountered and developed during his transition into the adult world. He took his experiences and transferred them on to the canvas with bold lines and bright colors. Through his work, highly influenced by the Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha, Young Min creates flat images with outlines to visually strengthen his paintings.

Gahee Ha is an aspiring artist and fashion designer. She wants to utilize both talents and unify the two into a modernized concept. Her unique installation pieces are inspired by an everyday occurrence: death. She uses remnants of those who have passed away. Gahee took these ordinary objects and displayed it in such a way for the objects to tell a story to the audience.

Yeji Lee believes that looking at something, registering it and walking away is not a unique experience. She wants the moment to be stretched until the object of her study becomes nameless. The concern for differentiating perception and comprehension is carried over to her work. Her works displayed in this exhibition are flat paintings, but her interest shifts towards that silver of boundary between a flat plane and its borders.

Mollie Miller’s work illustrates how the components of a memory are kept in a certain order and capacity, and how the preserved placement of these parts can create and extreme closeness to the past and current places. Mollie’s drawings from this exhibition are adaptations of reactionary sketches.

Erin Young does not simply paint what she experiences, but she paints what her experiences have molded her into. She believes that words alone are not enough in stories but rather images help covey the message of the story. Her paintings in this exhibition were inspired by her expedition to China in 2006.

Curator

Ji Young Shim

Curatorial Assistant Team

Christine Bae

Agness Kim

Heather Kim

Crossing the Thresholds will take place in Gallery Chun at 35-14 150 Pl. 2^nd Fl., Flushing, Queens, NY from July 21 through August 18, 2012. The opening reception will be held on July 21 from 6:oo – 9:00 PM. For further information, please visit Facebook Page on www.facebook.com/gallerychun, our website, www.gallerychun.com, or email us at gallerychun1@gmail.com.

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