“Kooky Cutters: Redefined Realities” Exhibition
Kook Projects
[Image: D. Dominick Lombardi "Patience" (2014) Acrylic and oil on canvas. 12 x 9 in.]
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Kook Projects is pleased to present Kooky Cutters: Redefined Realities, its inaugural group exhibition
curated by Soojung Hyun.
The works included in this exhibition focus on the uniquely contagious aspects of an imagined existence,
both lyrical and abstruse. They represent everyday life, but in a cunningly different way. In doing so, the
artists apply their innovative realities in relation to errant formal strategies. Each artist rejects facile ideas,
strict perceptions, unstable trends, and predictable forms. A phonetic play on the Korean surname, Kook,
the English term “kooky” is a type of vernacular slang used to identify unusual or offbeat behavior. On a
formal level, it might also refer to the paradoxical manifestations of the creative self.
In Kooky Cutters: Redefined Realities, six artists: Jinyoung Koh, Jungho Lee, D. Dominick Lombardi,
Jin-kang Park, Negin Sharifzadeh, and Saba Riazi, investigate intimate experiences, unique processes,
and a fresh vitality at once shocking and absurd. Their works shift the appearance of reality in everyday
life toward a sublime experience. This exhibition intends to deliver a social commentary that involves the
use of conflicted subject matter to stimulate the mind by eliminating standard procedures in favor of
strange and unusual narratives.
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Schedule
from October 24, 2014 to November 21, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-10-24 from 18:00 to 20:00