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artoaster's toast

objects by Hyun Jung Kim

 

 

 

Sept 17 through Oct 29

Opening reception: Saturday, September 17 from 7 to 10pm

regular hours: 12-6pm Thursday  through Saturday

MONA is located at 7 N. Saginaw, Pontiac

tel: 248-210-7560

web:  detroitmona.com

email: detroitmona@aol.com

 

 

ARTDAILY

THE DETROITER

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The Museum of New Art (MONA) is pleased to announce the launch and exhibition of ‘Artoaster's Toast', a major solo project by Korean artist Hyun Jung Kim. 

During the nineties, the South Korean art market benefited from a protectionist currency policy aimed at keeping money at home by imposing stringent taxes on outgoing funds. This, along with a deeply ingrained respect for art and culture, has created a thriving market for contemporary Korean artists within the country. The downside, of course, is that it is virtually impossible to meet these prices in the West. According to artist Nam June Paik, the power structure of the Korean art world explained why major shows of Korean art were slow to happen in the West. Thus the most successful Korean artists rarely exhibited in Europe or the U.S.

Today, the explosion of the visual arts in China, Japan and Korea has obviously opened up to the world and brought with it new ways of seeing, not only these young artists' work, but invigorating the vision of art itself.
 
Close in spirit to Yayoi Kusama, Kim is always interested in "catching life's entirety in a single body of work or installation."  Her highly sensitive use of common materials used uncommonly, and the resultant complex structures span a bridge between Asian and western pictorial traditions, yet it always remains uniquely Korean. This makes Kim's work incomparable.
 
Hyun Jung Kim's 'ARTOASTER'S TOAST' will be on view only at Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA) from September 17 through October 29.
 

 
 		  
          

 

Hyun Jung Kim

artoast@gmail.com

mailing address- 6 Olinda, Irvine, CA 92602

 

EDUCATION

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, MFA in Print/Media, 2005

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, BFA in Painting, 2001

 

EXHIBITION

Daimler Chrysler Annual Selection

Farmington Hills, MI, 2005-2006

Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2005

Artist As Known As Prints

Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2005

Daimler Chrysler Annual Selection

Farmington Hills, MI, 2004-2005

Xchange

Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI, 2004-2005

Really? Not Really!

Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2003

Graduate Degree Exhibition of Seoul National University

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 2000

 

EXPERIENCE

Lead instructor at Troy Art Akademie, Tory, MI

Planned and implemented lessons for 6-9 year old children in painting and drawing, June 2005-    

Portfolio coordinator at Motive Art Academy, Seoul, Korea  

Planned and implemented lessons for High School and College students in making portfolio, June-August in 2004

Full-time art tutor at Na Sang Sun Art Studio, Seoul, Korea      

Planned and implemented lessons for Elementary School and Junior High School Students in drawing,

painting, and graphic design for entrance exam of art college and art high school. 1999-2001

 

HONOR AND AWARD

Flora Burt Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2004-2005

International Outreach Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2004-2005

Seoul National University Scholarship Excellent in Record, 1998, 1999, 2000