AMERICAN YEARS: WOOK-KYUNG CHOI (1940-1985)

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1 - 2PM

BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM, PARK AVENUE ARMORY

 

 

Tina Kim Gallery will participate in ADAA | The Art Show for the first time with a presentation of works by Wook-Kyung Choi (1940-1985), on view at the Park Avenue Armory from Wednesday, November 3rd through Sunday, November 7th.

 

In conjunction with the presentation, the gallery is pleased to announce a panel discussion with Victoria Sung (Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center), and Eunyoung Park (Assistant Professor in Art History at Case Western Reserve University), moderated by art historian and curator Lynn Zelevansky. The panelists will discuss the practice and legacy of pioneering Korean artist, Wook-Kyung Choi (1940-1985), who is now the subject of a major retrospective entitled Wook-kyung Choi: Alice’s Cat at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea, on view from October 27. 

 

The event is organized as part of ADAA Art Show 2021’s general program. The talk will take place in the Board of Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory on Sunday, November 7th at 1:00PM. We will be offering free fair admission to those who would like to attend the talk. Seating is limited so please RSVP to secure your ticket. 

RSVP soyoung@tinakimgallery.com

EVENT INFO https://theartshow.org/programming/14679/american-years-wook-kyung-choi-1940-1985

 

PREVIEW

Wook-Kyung Choi (1940-1985) is mostly known for her association with Abstract Expressionism. Shortly after graduating from Seoul National University in 1963, Choi moved to the United States and subsequently received her master's degree in Fine Arts from the Brooklyn Museum School of Art. While establishing her career as an artist, Choi taught painting at Franklin Pierce College (1968-1971), Atlanta College of Arts (1974-1976), and University of Wisconsin, Madison (1977-78). Choi's short yet prolific artistic career was crystallized during her 17-year stay in America. Her works during this period embody the artist's poignant response to her social milieu and still deserve a greater recognition.

 

ABOUT

 

Speakers

Victoria Sung • Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center

Victoria Sung is Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where she co-curated Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, the Iranian American artist’s first US retrospective, and co-edited the accompanying 450-page catalogue offering new scholarship on six decades of Armajani’s practice. The exhibition opened at the Walker in September 2018 and traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in February 2019. Recent and upcoming projects include solo exhibitions with Theaster Gates, Rayyane Tabet, Candice Lin, Shen Xin, and Pao Houa Her. She is currently organizing a major exhibition on the work of Filipino American artist Pacita Abad, which will debut at the Walker in spring 2023 before embarking on an international tour. Sung holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard College, a master's degree in history of art and visual culture from the University of Oxford, and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

 

Eunyoung Park • Assistant Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Eunyoung Park is an assistant professor of global contemporary visual culture in the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Park specializes in contemporary Korean art with a research focus on the issues of identity, globalization, and contemporaneity. She is also interested in effects of globalization on contemporary East Asian art and in cross-cultural movements within and between East Asian and Western modern and contemporary art. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Kansas and earned her MA in Art History from Ewha Womans University in Korea.

 

Moderator

Lynn Zelevansky • Art historian and curator

Lynn Zelevansky is an American art historian and curator. Formerly Henry Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, she is currently based in New York City. Zelevansky was the Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head, Contemporary Art at LACMA from 1995 to 2019. While at LACMA, Zelevansky originated several group exhibitions such as Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea (2009). While working at MoMA (1987-1995), she curated Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties (1994), that institution’s first all-female exhibition. AICA awarded it "Best Emerging Art Exhibition New York."

https://theartshow.org/programming/14679/american-years-wook-kyung-choi-1940-1985

 

*격정과 허무의 캔버스: 최욱경(1940-1984)

http://www.nyculturebeat.com/index.php?document_srl=3928706&mid=Art2