The
AHL Foundation is pleased to present "Different, But Alike," a Three-Person
exhibition guest-curated by Jin K. Choi, (AHL-Chun Family Foundation Curatorial
Fellowship recipient), featuring work by three artists, DS LEE, Joy Jongmin Kim,
and Loretta Park. Using sculptures and paintings, the three Korean-born artists
in the exhibition uniquely engage the genre revealing their perceptions of
surrounding components of daily life in different, abstract forms within their
signature media. “Different, But Alike” offers each artist’s thematically and
stylistically different ideologies, incorporating subject matters on the canvas
and in the space.
DS
LEE received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her artistic
practice reflects her earlier academic and professional background of
architecture and urban design through careful consideration of non-structure and
application of industrial materials. In addition, her deep interests in fashion
have conjured up a profound dialogue with human and surrounding components of
daily life, which she has developed and refined through several years of
experimental studio practice. Her work has shown for a number of prominent
exhibitions at Amos Eno Gallery, Nexxt, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Interstate
Project, Luhring Augustine, A.I.R Gallery, Invisible Dog, Youme Haus, etc.
Joy
Jongmin Kim is a self-taught, mixed media painter, based in New York. He was
born in a small town of a southern province in South Korea and moved to
Manhattan in 2014. He started to draw cartoons to entertain his friends in his
early years, developing and changing his styles extensively with his audacious
use of color and dynamic brushstrokes. He captures the moments from his daily
life and travels, recreating the stories on canvas with his expressive style,
and challenging the traditional movements and techniques of institutional Korean
art. He was inspired by the emotionally moving techniques of Pablo Picasso and
Jean-Michel Basquiat, juxtaposing Afro-American culture and contemporary street
art.
Loretta
Park received her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston
and studied visual arts and art history at Bowdoin College, where she earned a
bachelor’s degree in 2011. Park’s passion for studio practice emerged during her
undergraduate career, and in the short time since then, she has exhibited her
work in New York, Boston, New Jersey, and other locations in New England. As an
emerging artist, Park tries to create work that is unapologetic and frank, while
looking at other artists such as Jessica Stockholder and Judy Pfaff for wisdom
and inspiration. The idea of play is important for Park and she
is always mindful of what Sol Lewitt once said: “Your work is not high
stakes,
nail-biting professional challenge. It is a form of play. Lighten up and have
fun with it.”