Helen Draves, Hope

July 5, 2023 to May 19, 2024

Riverside Park South, Manhattan 

Helen Draves, Hope, 2023. Photo: Rudy Bravo, courtesy of Art Students League

Working across media, Helen Draves explores the passage of time and its physical and metaphorical impact on memory. In this sculpture, Draves continues these themes in an empathetic reflection on the Covid-19 pandemic. Inspired by a childhood memory of folding paper cranes, which have long been recognized as symbols of hope and healing, Draves created a collection of ceramic birds that when arranged together form the shape of a medical mask. The sculpture also includes medical masks cast in resin, which are transcribed with open-sourced messages intended to express the hope, loss, and memories of those affected by the pandemic, to serve as a reminder of the power of art to facilitate healing, foster connections, and inspire hope.

The Works in Public (WiP) program, formerly known as Model to Monument, is a professional development program that was begun in 2010 in partnership with NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program.

This exhibition is presented by the Art Students League of New York and the Riverside Park Conservancy.

https://www.nycgovparks.org/art/art1077

Helen Draves

EDUCATION

2014 to Present : Watercolor Under Paul Ching-bor, Ceramic Sculpture Under Yasumitsu Morito, Metal Sculpture under Haksul LEE, Art Students League of New York, Manhattan, NY

1996 M.F. A. in Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1993 B.F.A. in Sculputure, EWHA Womans’ University, Seoul, Korea

AWARD

2023 “Work in Public” Winner Sculptor for a monument at the Riverside Park South, Manhattan”

2023 “Red Dot Award of Student Salon of ASL”at Phyllis Mason Gallery”

2022 “Red Dot Award of Student Salon of ASL”at Phyllis Mason Gallery”

2020 “Red Dot award at online ASL Students Salon”

2019 “Red Dot & Blue Dot Award of Student Salon of ASL”at Phyllis Mason Gallery”

2018 “Blue Dot Award of Student Salon of ASL” at “Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery”,

2016 “Best in Show awarded-1st place” at North East Watercolor Society 40th international Juried

Exhibition

Solo Exhibition

1996 “Power of Life” Higgins Hall Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY

Group Exhibitions

2018 “At the Moment” 7Artists Exhibition, Able Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY (Scheduled)

2018 ”Retrospect” Nokmee Annual Exhibition, Able Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY (Scheduled)

2018 “Juried Exhibition” North East Watercolor Society 41th international Juried Show 2018

“Thankfulness for God’s Gift” Family Exhibition, K&P Gallery

2018 “KACAL Together, LA”, Korea Daily Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

2017 “Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery”, Art Student League, New York, New York

2017 “Juried Exhibition” North East Watercolor Society 41th international Juried Show

2017 “KACAL18” Annual Exhibition , Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY

2017 “NOKMEE” K&P Gallery, New York, NY

2016 “Juried Exhibition” “Best in Show awarded” North East Watercolor Society 40th international

Juried Show

2016 “3 Person Exhibition”, K&P Gallery, New York, NY

2016 “Juried Exhibition”, Piermont Flywheel Gallery . Piermont, NY

2016 “KACAL” Chun Gallery, Flushing, NY

2015 “NOKMEE”, Nabi Museum of Arts, Teaneck, NJ

2014 «NOKMEE», Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY

2008 “NOKMEE”, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY

2007 “NOKMEE”, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY

2006 “NOKMEE”, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY

Professional Affiliation

Monitor of the Ceramic Studio at Art Student League (ASL), NYC

National Sculpture Society Associate Member (NSS)

North East Watercolor Society Signature Member (NEWS)

Korean American Contemporary Art, Ltd. (KACAL)

http://helendraves.com