Babel: Chaos of Melancholy at Pitzer College Galleries

Babel: The Chaos of Melancholy
July 16- September 11, 2009
Pitzer Art Galleries, Nichols Gallery, Broad Center
Pitzer College
1050 North Mills Ave
Claremont, CA 91711-6101
Gallery Hours: Tuesday- Friday, Noon-5PM, or by appointment
909.607-3143

"I wanted to use the material that the majority of this world population is limited to because of the lack of economic resource. What does it mean to build an architectural structure when you only have an access to scrap wood, earth, leaves, cardboard and some nails? In addition to the tower of Babel, I am also thinking about iconic towers such as Eiffel tower and the unbuilt Tatlin monument. So I see my structure as a prototype of a monument or an anti-monument based on a variety of archetypal structures such as the Coloseum, Empire State Buildig, and Burj Dubai, currently the tallest building in the world. But the more powerful archetypes that I am looking at are ones existing outside of main stream architecture, the shacks that people outside the castle live in and the shocking poverty that inspired Buddha to abandon his palace life."

Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue
Interview of the artist by Ciara Ennis, Director/Curator of Pitzer Galleries

For the full interview text, go to the address below.
http://babelchaosofmelancholy.blogspot.com/

Recent Collages

These are two versions of collages I created for a California Community Foundation commission.
























































"Koreatown Dawn to Dusk"
Commission by Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles
2008
Installed on the metro trains and buses April-August 2009













Created as a part of "Many Waters" installation at 7+Fig Art Space, this was one of the largest collage pieces I've created.

"Rebuilt", installation at 7+Fig Art Space

"Rebuilt" at 7+Fig Art Space
A collaborative installation with painter Amy Green
as a part of "Building Paradise"
April 10-May 29, 2009
I also curated this fantastic group show. Please check out the link below.
http://buildingparadisela.blogspot.com/
For Amy's work, check her website at www.amygreen-art.com

Using construction building materials such as wood, plexiglass panels, paint, and tapes in addition to a video and cut photos, Kyungmi Shin and Amy Green creates an imaginary landscape inspired by the sci-fi movies, mangas, and utopian architecture. Bringing together Static and moving imagery, Green and Shin creates a fantastical world that is in flux and in-between states of being built and deconstructed. Their installation plays with a notion of a paradise that is part imaginary and part real that allow for entropy and flux in isolated or fixed systems.

"Rich" at Sweeney Gallery, UC Riverside

"Rich" at Sweeney Gallery, UC Riverside
January-March 2009
curated by Tyler Stallings

The installation originally shown at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica traveled to the Sweeney Gallery at UC Riverside. The line drawings in the first installation developed into a sculptural form in this installation.