Art & Artist
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Artist Talk: Emanuel Hahn
Thursday, June 1, 2023 | 5:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Images courtesy of the artist | Emanuel Hahn's Koreatown Dreaming series was born out of a sense of urgency to document the stories of Koreatown LA during the Covid-19 pandemic and creeping gentrification. Although Koreatown is increasingly a popular destination for tourists and transplants, many small businesses in Koreatown serving the local population are closing, and long-time establishments and mom-and-pop stores have disappeared without leaving a record of their history and contributions to the city of Los... Read More -
Minhwa: Korean Paintings of the People, by the People, and for the People
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 6:30 PM- Youtube Video:
Tiger with Two Cubs and Two Magpies, Late Joseon Dynasty (18th or 19th Century), Mattielli Collection. Image courtesy of jstor.org | In this lecture, Professor Sunglim Kim explores Korean folk painting, minhwa, and examines its origin and development, the different genres within it, and their meanings and functions. She will also illustrate how minhwa paintings were consumed by Koreans in the past and the present. MinhwaKorean Paintings of the People, by the People, and for the People by Sunglim... Read More -
Artist Talk: Seongmin Ahn with Eleanor Hyun
Friday, March 24, 2023 | 5:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Traditional Korean Painting for Modern Times: In Seongmin Ahn’s paintings, it is not our past we are looking at but our possible future. - John Yau, Hyperallergic In her solo exhibition at The Korea Society, Seongmin Ahn presents a series of paintings and wall installations that fuses her insight in the relativity of perception with a deep regard for traditional Korean art, especially minhwa–folk painting. In her work, Ahn begins with traditional forms and themes, which she then extends into multi-disciplinary and... Read More -
Artist Talk: Young Min Moon
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | 5:00 PM- Youtube Video:
In his paintings Young Min Moon depicts Jesa, a Confucian ritual for commemoration of the deceased, which was one of the earliest memories he holds while growing up in the military regime of South Korea in the 1970s and 80s. Despite the gender politics now associated with the ritual today due to its patriarchal nature, Moon insists on exploring the legacy. For him, the ritual holds multiple layers of meanings: an occasion of silence utterly severed from the violent era of his childhood, a means of remembering the... Read More -
Bojagi Workshop with Wonju Seo
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | 2:00 PMLearn how to make your own bojagi—traditional Korean wrapping cloths—in this hands-on workshop. Participants will learn how to create a mini double layer bojagi called gub-bo using various colorful Korean ramie and hemp fabric and hand sewing techniques. Your own unique mini bojagi with geometric patterns can either be displayed as art in a frame or used as a decorative household item. Most materials—Korean ramie fabric, colored thread, needle, pins, marker, pencil, eraser, rulers—will be provided. Bring... Read More -
Hanbok: The Celebration
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | 5:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Image courtesy of Cultural Heritage Administration, Republic of Korea Riding the Korean Wave sweeping the world, the traditional Korean costumes have become increasingly visible in global media. In 2021, hanbok - the generic term referring to traditional style Korean clothing - was registered in the Oxford English Dictionary. In this comprehensive series of lectures, Dr. Minjee Kim, the preeminent scholar of Korean textile and fashion in the U.S., illustrates and elucidates hanbok in sartorial, socio-cultural,... Read More -
Hanbok: Gender, Class and Modernity
Thursday, July 21, 2022 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Walhwajungin (Lovers Under the Moon) by Shin Yun-Bok (1758-?) Image courtesy of Kansong Art & Culture Foundation Riding the Korean Wave sweeping the world, the traditional Korean costumes have become increasingly visible in global media. In 2021, hanbok - the generic term referring to traditional style Korean clothing - was registered in the Oxford English Dictionary. In this comprehensive series of lectures, Dr. Minjee Kim, the preeminent scholar of Korean textile and fashion in the U.S., illustrates and... Read More -
Artist Talk: Heeseop Yoon
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 | 5:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Image courtesy of the artist Although her intricate installations are often so large that they spread over walls onto ceilings and floors, Heeseop Yoon thinks of her work as freehand drawings. All of Yoon’s works are based on real spaces with vast messes, such as basements, workshops, storage spaces, or “places where everything is jumbled and time becomes ambiguous without the presence of people.” Based on photographs, Yoon draws freehand without erasing; based on her own drawings, she creates her enlarged wall... Read More -
Artist Talk: Wonju Seo
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 5:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Image courtesy of the artist In Wonju Seo’s hands, the aesthetics, forms, and techniques of bojagi— traditional Korean wrapping cloths—are reconfigured as abstract textile art for a global audience. Seo combines needlework, painting, photography, and other techniques to create contemplative artworks that explore her transcultural identity and life experience. Ms. Seo, whose solo exhibition Travelogue is on view at The Korea Society Gallery March 3 - May 27, 2022, talks about her career and work. Artist... Read More -
Hanbok: A New Lexicon of World Fashion - Men's hanbok
Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 7:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Portrait of Yun Dongseom (1710–1795) by Unidentified Artist. ca. 1790–1805 Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Riding the Korean Wave sweeping the world, the traditional Korean costumes have become increasingly visible in global media. In 2021, hanbok - the generic term referring to traditional style Korean clothing - was registered in the Oxford English Dictionary. In this comprehensive series of lectures, Dr. Minjee Kim, the preeminent scholar of Korean textile and fashion in the U.S.,... Read More