"Boom Box" Exhibition

The Clemente

poster for "Boom Box" Exhibition

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In collaboration with the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Asian American Arts Centre presents an exhibition entitled, “Boom Box”. Located on CSV 2ed floor and installed in the Abrazo Interno Gallery, exhibition is curated by Eun Young Choi and features four artists: Jung Hyang Kim, Ming Fay, Amy Chan, and Hyungsub Shin. The white walled rectangular gallery with its high ceiling will be transformed into a vibrant celebration of colorful blooms, pods, branches, and burgeoning flora.

The exhibition includes intricate multi-layered dreamlike abstractions of Jung Hyang Kim, a fruit-laden lush urban jungle installation by Ming Fay, delicate yet quietly mesmerizing surreal landscapes by Amy Chan, and beautiful blooms created from traditional hand-held fansthat straddle the boarder between nature and artificiality by Hyungsub Shin. They each create beautiful visual harmony inspired by nature’s Boom Box, like the compact portable stereo, the exhibition overflows with various rhythms and melodies that combine together to create a complex yet intimate visual symphony.

This exhibition of two Artists from AAAC’s digital archive – artasiamerica.org - and two artists unknown to this archive, all chosen by Eun Young Choi, brings to life a relationship between artists and the public, such that a context builds, and a greater appreciation and understanding accumulates. With a new generation a relationship can be found to those who have come before and this brings a wholly different perspective to the contemporary art field. Creative individuals can still be appreciated as individuals, but they can also be seen as innovators to a tradition, to a past that continues to be active in the present. And the archive – both the original physical archive of Asian American artists and the digital archive, enables a more extensive view and background of the breadth of this relationship.

Eun Young Choi is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and studied Museum Studies at City College, CUNY. Some of the venues that she has curated at include Gallery SATORI, Number 35, Arario Gallery New York, Lumenhouse, and the NARS Foundation in New York City and Gallery Factory in Seoul. She has also exhibited her work international in Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, and the US.

AAAC and CSV welcome student groups, educators and general public to the Abrazo Interno Gallery in their visit to the Lower East Side. AAAC staff will be available to give gallery tours and answer questions from the public, as well as the press. Tours will include local available highlights such as Ming Fay mosaic tile art in the Delancey Subway Station, located underneath the Essex Street Market.

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Schedule

from March 16, 2011 to March 30, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-03-17 from 17:00 to 20:00

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