NYAB Event - Joo Yeon Woo “What’s My Name?”

Joo Yeon Woo “What’s My Name?”

A.I.R. Gallery

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A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce What’s My Name?, a solo exhibition of new works by Joo Yeon Woo.

As a culturally displaced artist, Woo has been drawn to the theme of cultural displacement and identity, and tosocial psychological and cross-cultural studies that are heavily influenced by immigrant experiences. Woo will show two of her newest series, digital pigment prints showing binders of immigrant documents, and embossed paper portraits presenting Korean immigrants collected from the ethnic media in the U.S.
New York-based art critic Lilly Wei wrote about

Woo’s new print series, “ If you look closely, you might glimpse a creased immigration form, or an old red and blue striped airmail
letter from a consulate or immigration o ice as well as other papers. Each folder, of an appealing and di erent color, varies in bulk
depending upon the complexity of the family’s specific situation. Each, consequently, is also a portrait, complementing the ‘Gyopo
Portraits,’ the files emblematic of real lives. As surrogates for these lives, the binders have a curious poignancy, representing
immigrant dreams and their once and future hopes; some of them might be fulfilled, some not.”

Joo Yeon Woo has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Sejong Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea, The Vargas Museum in
University of the Philippines, Philippines, Asia Contemporary Art Show in Hong Kong and Art Gwangju in Korea. She has
participated in several international artist-in-residence programs including VCCA, Red Gate Residency in Beijing, China, and Studio
943 in Kunming, China. She also received a Korean National Art Festival Award at National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea
(2000) and was selected for Korea Young Artists Biennale in Korea (2002). Woo lives in Boulder, CO and teaches Painting and
Drawing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Media

• Prints

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