Wednesday, May 16th, 2018 -  Friday, July 6th, 2018

Opening Reception: May 16th, 6 PM - 8 PM

460 Park Ave,. 6th Fl., NYC

About the Artists

Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Center New York

Gallery Hours: 9 AM - 5 PM, Mon - Fri

Organized by Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Center New York

Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Center New York is pleased to announce Cardinal Planes - the first Call for Artists 2018 group exhibition of this year that showcases fourteen talented artists: Tae Eun Ahn, Alexis Avlamis, Namwon Choi, Valery Jung Estabrook, Alice Gaskon, Jisook Kim, June Kim, Youngmi Kim, Christina Massey, Sidhi Rajesh Parikh, Avani Patel, Goeun Seo, Ritu Sinha, and Kazaan Viveiros.

Artists were selected by a panel of three art professionals based in New York; Ian Alteveer, Associate Curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Iris Inhee Moon, Director of Free Art Zone International, Inc.; and Andrew Weinstein, Associate Professor of the Department of the History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY.

Cardinal planes are hypothetical three dimensional coordinates used to describe the movements of the human body. Three imaginary planes: the frontal plane, sagittal plane and horizontal plane, are axised in the center of the body in order to find out where structures are located and to understand the relation of gestures and how they are connected. 

In this exhibition, rather than using the term in the anatomical sense, “cardinal planes”  are used for psychological self-examination as humans living in the contemporary world. In today’s society, individuals are no longer categorized or limited to certain roles. If there were any limitations in actions that we could take in the past, no longer are we restricted today. With the infinite potential of the cardinal planes, innumerable postures, stances, and directions can be made via the coordinates. Though the chances of inner conflict or even confusion may rise, we have gained more freedom now than ever in choosing who we would like to be. 

In Cardinal Planes, the artist metaphorically gestures in different poses to express themselves in today’s world. We have grouped the artists using symbolic cardinal planes by the way that their works describe the various human conditions in current society. All together, they illustrate the range of diversity and potential in the dynamic contemporary art world.

Living and working in London and Seoul, Tae Eun Ahn is a Korean visual artist who uses the body and its movement as a core medium in her works. Ahn studied Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and the Royal College of Art (MA). Exploring the phenomenological body and its movement as tools to seek meaning in one’s existence, her process-oriented work mainly takes form as performance, video, and installation pieces. Her works have been featured in international exhibitions including Charlie Smith London and Camden Art Centre in London; Palazzon Ca’ Zanardi in Venice; and Segyo Experimental Art Centre in South Korea. In 2017, Ahn won the Anthology Award 2017 and the Khojaly Peace Prize. 

Alexis Avlamis lives and works between Athens and London. Avlamis is a painter who is influenced by Surrealist Automatism. Juried shows and competitions include: the Stencil Art Prize, Australia; the Day Dreamers, Bg Gallery, California; the Bloom Award, Shortlisted, Cologne; the Artist Statement, CICA Museum, Korea; the Anthology, Charlie Smith London, UK; the Mamut Art Project, Istanbul; the IEAA Award Laureates, Dubai, Brussels; the Dave Bown Projects, New York; the Heart Revive, Sunshine Museum. Beijing; the Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, and several others. He has attended residencies in China, USA, and Finland, has been published and interviewed internationally; Avlamis’s works can be found in private and museum collections. 

Namwon Choi creates drawings, paintings of highway on canvas paper and used tires as a means of portraying her life in transition. Choi is an artist and educator based in Savannah, GA. Choi has an MFA in Drawing and Painting from Georgia State University and an MFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University of Seoul, Korea. She has been an artist in residence at VCCA, Hambidge, and MASS MoCA studios. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at the Artist Homes Gallery in Berlin and Stanley Beaman & Sears Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Currently, she is a professor of Foundation Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Valery Jung Estabrook questions the human tendency to categorize other human beings, either by race, culture, or gender, and how we transcend these identities. She has BA in Visual Arts from Brown University and MFA in Painting and Drawing from Brooklyn College, New York.  Her works have been shown in numerous international art exhibitions and art events including the Los Angeles Underground Film Forum , California; Bideodromo Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain; CHANNELS Biennial Video Art Festival , Melbourne, Australia; SPRING/BREAK Art Show , New York, NY; and A.I.R. Gallery , Brooklyn, NY. 

Alice Gaskon focuses on dividing lines, such as political borders and social barriers in her works. Gaskon received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and is a graduate from Architecture (WSEiZ). She lives and works in New York. She received grants and residencies from StartPoint Prize, Saatchi Screen Project, NYFA, ArtSlant, Wprost, and the Ministry of Culture. Gaskon has been exhibited widely in numerous solo and group shows in Europe and North America, including Balzer Projects in Basel, Switzerland, Solo Positions in Berlin,Germany, Le Guern in Warsaw, Poland, Ledygel Institute in Hungary, Noyes Art Museum- NJ, Chashama, the Times Square Alliance, US, Artissima, Italy, Viennafair, Austria, and the Saatchi Screen Project, United Kingdom. 

Jisook Kim expresses her inner world as sculptural installations as well as drawings using marbling patterns. She was born in Incheon, Korea and works and lives in New York City. She received a BFA and a MFA in sculpture from SungShin Women's University in Seoul, Korea. Her sculptures, drawing, and installations has been exhibited extensively in Korea and in the United States. Several of the examples are Built Emotions at Gallery Sensei, New York; Emotions at Nabi Museum, New Jersey; Hello My Friends at Alternative Space Noon, Korea; the 10th Annual Governors Island Art Fair, New York; Affordable Art Fair, New York; and the 4th Community Art Project at Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY. She is also the winner of the 39th Incheon Art Contest, Korea. 

June Kim creates red thread sculptures to visualize her internal conception on invisible human connections. She was born and raised in South Korea and currently works in Los Angeles after she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design. Kim participated in various numbers of art exhibitions in California including the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine; H Gallery, Ventura; Tag Gallery, Santa Monica, and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica. Her work was chosen for Art Basel in Miami 2012 and the California Open Exhibition 2013. Her work, “Intersection,” won a solo show in 2017 at 825 gallery. She has been a member of the Los Angeles Art Association for 5 years.