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Michael Joo Solo Exhibition
May 15 - June 20, 2008
PKM GALLERY
Tel. 02-734-9467
E-mail: info@pkmgallery.com
www.pkmgallery.com
Opening reception for the artist: 5 PM, May 15, 2008
PKM Gallery will hold a solo exhibition by Michael Joo from May 15 through June 20, 2008.
Michael Joo (b. 1966, USA) is an internationally well-known artist who has had many solo and group exhibitions at major art events and venues, including the Korean Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale(2001); Serpentine Gallery, London; White Cube Gallery, London; Whitney Biennale (2000); and the 6th Gwangju Biennale (2006). His work Bohdi Obfuscatus (Space Baby) shown at the Gwangju Biennale was praised highly in Korea as a "distinct reconciliation of the East and the West" and received the joint grand prize awarded by the biennale.
Born to Korean parents in the U.S., Joo grew up in the American Midwest and studied biology in college. He then received an MFA from Yale School of Art. His works are anchored in explorations about his identity, an exploration that is informed by various backgrounds and the cultural diversity he experienced in his formative years.
Joo has keen eyes for deciphering the exact cross-points of complex notions of duality such as nature and science, the East and West, religion and morality, and the inside and outside, and he is well-known for making the viewer rethink about the conventional ideas about 'identity.' This is his second show at P K M GALLERY since 2002, and it will raise questions about the fast-spreading concept of the 'hybrid' through works that deal with the issues of identity, the deconstruction of the object, and heterogeneous union among deconstructed objects.
The show will feature fifteen works of diverse medium, including canvas-mounted hand-built plastic relief, sculpture, print, and video. The works will include Improved Rack, a deer antler that has been sectioned off and recomposed that suggests a potential growth; a sculptural work in which an Italian sausage is made of plastic; and a canvas work that reminds one of zebra skin. In transforming familiar objects Joo's works reinterpret them, and viewers will experience the artist's unique reconciliation of the aesthetic and philosophical reflections on the unfamiliar.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, the Samsung Museum of Art Leeum, and other leading art museums and galleries currently have Michael Joo's work in their collection.
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