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 Foundation
The 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.
 
AHL Foundation Office
420 West 23rd Street, #7A, New York
 
AHL Foundation Project Space
526 West 26th Street, #710, New York
Wed - Sat, 12 - 6 pm
 
For further information:
info@ahlfoundation.org