"Unspoken Messages" Exhibition
Elga Wimmer PCC
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Mostly people think art is just beautiful and looks interesting but that is not all.
Artists always want to represent their ideas, concepts, feelings and messages through their works and they also want the viewers to catch those meanings. In presenting the works of Youngmi Lee, TaeJo Choi, Jung S. Kim, Mary Ellen, EunJeong Lee, five artists want you to find the different concepts of visualizing their messages.
Taejo Choi’s paintings give a first impression of beautiful flowers but when you look closer you can find that those flowers are not that appealing. Choi speaks through his painting about our daily life which is not always easy and that people are struggling to survive and achieve their goals. How many sacrifices does society have to endure? The flowers’ extensive blossoming will soon be gone…
Young Mi Lee represents vivid colored paintings that speak about happiness and bright moments in her life. Sometimes Lee feels a futile instinct deep in her heart while composing the harmony of colors, but erasing the white.
Jung S. Kim creates self-portraits based on ancient Korean historic and legendary characters. The artist applies her emotions and anguishes to imaginary characters in the folk tales. Every self-portrait reflects various images of Kim’s self in her unconscious mind.
Mary Ellen’s drawings were originally inspired by the 3-dimentional structure of the human genome (HG). Each painted line is meant to suggest its 5 micron x 2 meter unknotted strand of DNA that is found in every cell. The timing of making this series of work has somewhat coincided with new knowledge of Ellen’s personal genetic history that recently led Ellen to connect with her birth family.
In this exhibition Eun Jeong Lee shows an installation, “Life is Like a Large Knot”- a twisted mass of threads that cannot be easily separated. Lee’s works are about the confusions and questions of life. Her concepts express giving up control, by accident, by mistake, by trusting. The lines converge to delineate a bigger picture that is the process of life.
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Schedule
from August 09, 2012 to August 23, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-08-09 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Youngmi Lee, TaeJo Choi, Jung S. Kim, Mary Ellen, EunJeong Lee