Korea Art Forum (kafny.org) is pleased to announce artist talks by Susan Jahoda and Naomi Kuo at the Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College, on June 17, 2017, at 4 pm. This event, free of charge, is organized as a public program of the exhibition, Commodity & Ideology, Part I. The exhibition, curated by Heng-Gil Han, explores the idea of urban streets and public places as spaces of and/or for expression and production. Commodity & Ideology weaves a dynamic visual dialogue between works by artists from Pyongyang, New York, Seoul, and Beijing, and serves as a metaphor for a peaceful relationship with North Korea.
Susan Jahoda will do a reading of her project Flight Patterns (2001) followed by a conversation with the audience about her intentions and the process involved. Following Susan, Naomi Kuo will present her thoughts about her textile work and the quilt exhibited, Neighborhood Quilt (2014).
Susan Jahoda is an artist, educator, and organizer whose work includes video, photography, text, performance, installation, and research-based collaborative projects. She has produced works for venues in London, Paris, Basel, New York, Seoul, and Moscow. Currently, Jahoda is a core member of BFAMFAPhD, and The Pedagogy Group, collectives of socially engaged artists and educators based in New York City. Jahoda has organized exhibitions and screenings including Documents from the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, (2014-15). She has also published short stories and essays including "Spring Flowers," in Class and its Others, University of Minnesota Press, (2000) and “Theatres of Madness,” in Deviant Bodies, Indiana University Press, (1995). Her projects have received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Trust for Mutual Understanding, NYC. Jahoda is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and resides in New York City.
Naomi Kuo is an emerging artist working predominantly in 2D mixed media and textiles. Much of her work explores ideas of home and belonging in an ever-changing urban environment and seeks to engage the larger contexts in which art exists. Her work has been shown at the Local Project Art Space (2016); Walls-Ortiz Gallery & Center (2016); All Things Project (2016); Falchi Building (2015); and other art spaces. Naomi is also on staff with Transform, an artist residency program, and is a teaching artist with Thrive Collective School Murals. She was born in Houston, TX and received her Bachelors of Art in English and Studio Art at the University of Texas, Austin. She is currently living and working in Queens, NY.
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