NYAB Event - Tai Hwa Goh "Lull"

Tai Hwa Goh "Lull"

chashama Window Space (266 W 37th St. )

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Tai Hwa Goh is interested in the irony and contrast between fragility of prints on paper and concrete architectural element as vulnerable human being and monumental layers of his history. Window, an elements of architecture characteristic of transparency and reflection, exemplify the notions of fragility and immateriality. It speaks of the strength of the material’s architectural, structural and industrial, at once delicate shell and protective casing. Chashama’s windows allows her work to display the paradox between these two aspects; feeble but strong, isolated but crossed-over.

Goh’s hand waxed prints are created using traditional printmaking techniques mounted onto walls, floor, ceiling, and windows. (The hand-waxing process gives the prints transparency so images can be viewed from outside and inside of the windows). Through the process of folding, cutting, flipping and overlapping the prints, the images are gradually transformed and grow into the space, questioning the concept of print reproduction. Its source is two-dimensional yet breaks out into three-dimensional sculptural existence. Her irregular, unfixed, mutable, and continuous installation opens the possibility of multiple interpretations about human beings and art, crossing boundary between two and three-dimensionality.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Tai Hwa Goh primarily works with printmaking and paper installation. She spent her childhood years through college in Seoul. Goh received a MFA degree at the University of Maryland in 2004 specializing in printmaking and sculpture. She also received another MFA in printmaking at Seoul National University in Korea back in 2000. Goh creates artwork in which an innovative integrated medium of printmaking is put together to create a new art form that is symbolic and physical. Its source is two- dimensional yet it breaks out into a three dimensional sculptural existence. Layering printed Korean paper (Soon-ji) act as a representational of the human body, life events and its traced experience. The waxed paper creates a delicate translucency allowing through vibration of imagery.