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變ːSCENE
Collaborative exhibition by Eunkang Koh, Goyona Jung, Anna Newman and Ingrid Stumpf
Written by Kyungmin Lim, Curator
The word, SCENE, is quite comprehensive. As the world of the visual art and the film industry can be referred as art scene and film scene, “scene” also could mean all categories that the individuals and their result, attempts, and repercussions included in the field affect. No one can define the limitation of the use of this word “scene” because our contemporary world is actively changing and constantly accepting the possibility of new meaning. Although artists do not seem to show new ideas and work all the time but they constantly attempt to challenge old ideas and create new concepts and visual outcome of their work. This exhibition introduces a good example of endeavoring new definition of “Scene”, by four different artists. Eunkang Koh, Goyona Jung, Anna Newman, and Ingrid Stumpf, create a new “Scene” by adding and changing layers of memory and environment based on the existed concepts of images through the medium of printmaking. Derived as the result of AI that visualizes the words selected by artists and then integrated and presented in one place, the four artists collaboratively and individually visualize their concerns about the boundaries of categories to create their own version of “Scene” by the utilizing the idea of “multiple”, which is the characteristics of printmaking a medium in this exhibition.
Eunkang Koh focuses on exploring human and the contemporary society and environment that they are living in. She utilizes a combination of symbols found in working class paintings in Chosen Dynesty, called “Minhwa”, Buddhism, and old tales in the Korean culture. As Eunkang observes flocks of quails dancing and coyotes preying on dogs and cats while living at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, she interpretates her own version of their characteristics and creates a morphological hybrid of those animals and humans, which turn into a part of overall landscape and scene in her work.
Goyona Jung’s work drives from emotion, empathy, and familiarity from images captured by a camera lens. She reinterpreted, re-extracted and transformed the images she has created before in this exhibition. Goyona challenges existed images with words that are related to place, communication, relationship, change, real time. She adds the layers of images of these words to the original images. In this process, she attempts not only to change and expand the new images from existed one but also experiments with the printmaking medium to add the density on the images that are difficulty to achieve in the medium of painting.
Anna Newman utilizes left over scrap fabrics from her family from 1940-1970 in her work. She uses Dutch Angle to evoke anxiety to the viewers while these materials bring happy memories of childhood and the activities of women taking care of housework. This small twist in Dutch Angle generates a gap in her work that our hidden or forgotten family stories that come up later may not be the happy ending although that is what we all wish.
Ingrid Stumpf applies title pattern images to her work in the form of linoleum prints. She presents a combination of decorative and biological images of sage, the state flower of Nevada, and the Rose of Sharon (hibiscus), the national flower of Korea. Ingrid Stumpf approaches images generated by AI with critical eyes while she excludes the symbols and narratives of these flowers but reflects her own perspectives.
The four artists collectively chose words that interested them and inserted the words into an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application to generate images. When the words, Seoul, Reno, identity, social media, environment, contemporary, print art, edited life memory, language difference, pandemic, etc. were inserted into the AI system, some of the images came out quite plausible, while some images especially from Asia came out as an unsatisfactory result. The artists embraced this; they utilized these unsatisfying images as the background of their collaborating work, and these images with the same background were recreated with each artist style and tastes.
Over Eunkang Koh’s work, patterned images of paper and coyote hybrid images appear here and there. It is difficult for Koreans to experience that coyotes may prey on your dog if you let your guard down in the walking path. Coyotes probably try their best to survive like us, human, do our best to survive in their human world. This motif often appears in her work, and it gives you a strange feeling as coyote staring at you in the background.
Goyona Jung transformed the scene into a new painterly image using color and paint flowing. At first, the final outcome of work makes us feel formative sense as we see the spontaneous paint flowing down on the images, while it gives us an effect to glance one more time to the scene between the paint flowing. It is interesting to pay attention how the paint covers some parts of the background of the scene, which we can see clearly on the same background images made by other artists.
Anna Newman takes a distinctive way by using fabric and stitching to recall memories in her collaborative work. The woven threads, sewn in grides that come out, or the flowing ends evokes peculiar senses. Especially, the sense becomes maximized when these elements meet the images smoothly printed on vinyl materials. Her approach also emphasizes the gap between the scenes and emotion that are created with materiality of old postcards and fabrics.
Symbolism can be found in Ingrid Stumpf’s work from layered images that are faint and ascend at the same time. The patterned mages are faithfully placed on the background as we can see artist choice of flowers that symbolize Reno and Korea and how she combines these flowers with birds. The color of black on the print could be seen either negative or positive. It will give you answer depending on which you think is being emphasized and revealed when we look at this work.
In the exhibition “Scene”, the various scenes will greet you with uniqueness of genre and materiality. The four artists experiment the characteristic of printmaking and challenge boundaries of the medium to reinterpret and recreate new scenes. I hope viewers recognize the experimentation and expansion of artists’ challenges as they see these various scenes.
Artist Website:
Goyona Jung www.goyonajung.com
Anna Newman annanewmangroup.wordpress.com
Exhibition at All Time Space, Seoul South Korea from November 16-December 16, 2024
變ːSCENE
Collaborative exhibition by Eunkang Koh, Goyona Jung, Anna Newman and Ingrid Stumpf
Written by Kyungmin Lim, Curator
The word, SCENE, is quite comprehensive. As the world of the visual art and the film industry can be referred as art scene and film scene, “scene” also could mean all categories that the individuals and their result, attempts, and repercussions included in the field affect. No one can define the limitation of the use of this word “scene” because our contemporary world is actively changing and constantly accepting the possibility of new meaning. Although artists do not seem to show new ideas and work all the time but they constantly attempt to challenge old ideas and create new concepts and visual outcome of their work. This exhibition introduces a good example of endeavoring new definition of “Scene”, by four different artists. Eunkang Koh, Goyona Jung, Anna Newman, and Ingrid Stumpf, create a new “Scene” by adding and changing layers of memory and environment based on the existed concepts of images through the medium of printmaking. Derived as the result of AI that visualizes the words selected by artists and then integrated and presented in one place, the four artists collaboratively and individually visualize their concerns about the boundaries of categories to create their own version of “Scene” by the utilizing the idea of “multiple”, which is the characteristics of printmaking a medium in this exhibition.
Eunkang Koh focuses on exploring human and the contemporary society and environment that they are living in. She utilizes a combination of symbols found in working class paintings in Chosen Dynesty, called “Minhwa”, Buddhism, and old tales in the Korean culture. As Eunkang observes flocks of quails dancing and coyotes preying on dogs and cats while living at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, she interpretates her own version of their characteristics and creates a morphological hybrid of those animals and humans, which turn into a part of overall landscape and scene in her work.
Goyona Jung’s work drives from emotion, empathy, and familiarity from images captured by a camera lens. She reinterpreted, re-extracted and transformed the images she has created before in this exhibition. Goyona challenges existed images with words that are related to place, communication, relationship, change, real time. She adds the layers of images of these words to the original images. In this process, she attempts not only to change and expand the new images from existed one but also experiments with the printmaking medium to add the density on the images that are difficulty to achieve in the medium of painting.
Anna Newman utilizes left over scrap fabrics from her family from 1940-1970 in her work. She uses Dutch Angle to evoke anxiety to the viewers while these materials bring happy memories of childhood and the activities of women taking care of housework. This small twist in Dutch Angle generates a gap in her work that our hidden or forgotten family stories that come up later may not be the happy ending although that is what we all wish.
Ingrid Stumpf applies title pattern images to her work in the form of linoleum prints. She presents a combination of decorative and biological images of sage, the state flower of Nevada, and the Rose of Sharon (hibiscus), the national flower of Korea. Ingrid Stumpf approaches images generated by AI with critical eyes while she excludes the symbols and narratives of these flowers but reflects her own perspectives.
The four artists collectively chose words that interested them and inserted the words into an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application to generate images. When the words, Seoul, Reno, identity, social media, environment, contemporary, print art, edited life memory, language difference, pandemic, etc. were inserted into the AI system, some of the images came out quite plausible, while some images especially from Asia came out as an unsatisfactory result. The artists embraced this; they utilized these unsatisfying images as the background of their collaborating work, and these images with the same background were recreated with each artist style and tastes.
Over Eunkang Koh’s work, patterned images of paper and coyote hybrid images appear here and there. It is difficult for Koreans to experience that coyotes may prey on your dog if you let your guard down in the walking path. Coyotes probably try their best to survive like us, human, do our best to survive in their human world. This motif often appears in her work, and it gives you a strange feeling as coyote staring at you in the background.
Goyona Jung transformed the scene into a new painterly image using color and paint flowing. At first, the final outcome of work makes us feel formative sense as we see the spontaneous paint flowing down on the images, while it gives us an effect to glance one more time to the scene between the paint flowing. It is interesting to pay attention how the paint covers some parts of the background of the scene, which we can see clearly on the same background images made by other artists.
Anna Newman takes a distinctive way by using fabric and stitching to recall memories in her collaborative work. The woven threads, sewn in grides that come out, or the flowing ends evokes peculiar senses. Especially, the sense becomes maximized when these elements meet the images smoothly printed on vinyl materials. Her approach also emphasizes the gap between the scenes and emotion that are created with materiality of old postcards and fabrics.
Symbolism can be found in Ingrid Stumpf’s work from layered images that are faint and ascend at the same time. The patterned mages are faithfully placed on the background as we can see artist choice of flowers that symbolize Reno and Korea and how she combines these flowers with birds. The color of black on the print could be seen either negative or positive. It will give you answer depending on which you think is being emphasized and revealed when we look at this work.
In the exhibition “Scene”, the various scenes will greet you with uniqueness of genre and materiality. The four artists experiment the characteristic of printmaking and challenge boundaries of the medium to reinterpret and recreate new scenes. I hope viewers recognize the experimentation and expansion of artists’ challenges as they see these various scenes.
Artist Website:
Goyona Jung www.goyonajung.com
Anna Newman annanewmangroup.wordpress.com
Exhibition at All Time Space, Seoul South Korea from November 16-December 16, 2024