Nomadic City
Nomadic City
an installation by Heejung Cho
September 8 - 27, 2010
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street
New York, NY
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 15th, 6 - 8p
Open hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6p
for more information contact: sisi0313@gmail.com | www.heejungcho.com
Two architectural wall installations, 'Nomadic City', featuring paintings, collages and sculptures of urban architecture will be created at the gallery. On the left wall, many buildings from different neighborhood in New York City will be hung on the clothe lines in various sizes and a street view in perspective with wood panel and masking tape drawing will be on the right wall. Each drawing is a flatten sculpture or a 3 dimensional painting of urban architectures that has typical sites of necessary routine such as grocery shop, restaurant, cafe and laundromat. The collection of urban structures from different neighborhoods in New York City is a map of my personal life and a collage of neighborhood and cultures. Also, it depicts the displacement and nomadic lifestyles of our times. As an immigrant artist myself, I also relocated to New York from Korea and keep moving neighborhood and traveling for living and working to seek my real home.
My work represents a lot of various emotions between people and their environment. We constantly interact with typical sites of daily routine such as laundromat, coffee shop, grocery store, studio, subway and on the street. The interaction creates a sense of reality and a psychological map of daily life. Using woodcarving, painting and photo collaging, I draw the local places that contain emotional transition and compressed time of life.
I make flattened sculptures or 3 dimensional paintings in relief as an indataidual work and sometimes integrate and compile them to be an installation according to their relation. The collection of different places becomes a map of my personal life and a collage of different neighborhood and cultures. It also represents the displacement and nomadic lifestyles of our times. People frequently move from one place to another rather than settle permanently in one location. As an immigrant artist myself, I have relocated to New York from Korea and moved neighborhoods to seek my real home.
Heejung Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979, lives and works in New York City. Cho received a BFA from Seoul National University, South Korea and a MFA from Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University in New Jersey (2005). She attended Vermont Studio Program, VT and Beijing Studio Center, China and Triangle Workshop, Brooklyn for residency programs (2006) and participated in AIM29, Bronx Museum for the Arts (2009). She also granted a studio from the Painting Studio 122(2007-2009) and Elizabeth Foundation (2009-2011). Her work has been widely exhibited in Korea, China and New York, including solo shows in Seoul and Beijing (2007) and Smart gallery, NY(2006)and numerous group shows internationally. Recently, her new installation is exhibiting at Invisible Dog art center in Brooklyn and KIMI gallery in Seoul, Korea and will participate in group shows in Nurture art gallery, Brooklyn and Gina gallery in Chelsea.
an installation by Heejung Cho
September 8 - 27, 2010
chashama 112 Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street
New York, NY
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 15th, 6 - 8p
Open hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6p
for more information contact: sisi0313@gmail.com | www.heejungcho.com
Two architectural wall installations, 'Nomadic City', featuring paintings, collages and sculptures of urban architecture will be created at the gallery. On the left wall, many buildings from different neighborhood in New York City will be hung on the clothe lines in various sizes and a street view in perspective with wood panel and masking tape drawing will be on the right wall. Each drawing is a flatten sculpture or a 3 dimensional painting of urban architectures that has typical sites of necessary routine such as grocery shop, restaurant, cafe and laundromat. The collection of urban structures from different neighborhoods in New York City is a map of my personal life and a collage of neighborhood and cultures. Also, it depicts the displacement and nomadic lifestyles of our times. As an immigrant artist myself, I also relocated to New York from Korea and keep moving neighborhood and traveling for living and working to seek my real home.
My work represents a lot of various emotions between people and their environment. We constantly interact with typical sites of daily routine such as laundromat, coffee shop, grocery store, studio, subway and on the street. The interaction creates a sense of reality and a psychological map of daily life. Using woodcarving, painting and photo collaging, I draw the local places that contain emotional transition and compressed time of life.
I make flattened sculptures or 3 dimensional paintings in relief as an indataidual work and sometimes integrate and compile them to be an installation according to their relation. The collection of different places becomes a map of my personal life and a collage of different neighborhood and cultures. It also represents the displacement and nomadic lifestyles of our times. People frequently move from one place to another rather than settle permanently in one location. As an immigrant artist myself, I have relocated to New York from Korea and moved neighborhoods to seek my real home.
Heejung Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979, lives and works in New York City. Cho received a BFA from Seoul National University, South Korea and a MFA from Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University in New Jersey (2005). She attended Vermont Studio Program, VT and Beijing Studio Center, China and Triangle Workshop, Brooklyn for residency programs (2006) and participated in AIM29, Bronx Museum for the Arts (2009). She also granted a studio from the Painting Studio 122(2007-2009) and Elizabeth Foundation (2009-2011). Her work has been widely exhibited in Korea, China and New York, including solo shows in Seoul and Beijing (2007) and Smart gallery, NY(2006)and numerous group shows internationally. Recently, her new installation is exhibiting at Invisible Dog art center in Brooklyn and KIMI gallery in Seoul, Korea and will participate in group shows in Nurture art gallery, Brooklyn and Gina gallery in Chelsea.
