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The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery presents “Breathing” from March 29 to April 26, 2011, in East Village, New York City.
Posted by SB in ev arts, EV Arts, SB in EV Arts on March 16, 2011
“B r e a t h i n g”
The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery
March 29 – April 26, 2011
Tuesday- Saturday (11:00 am – 6:00 pm)
Opening Reception: March 29, Tuesday, 6-8 pm
The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery
417 Lafayette Street, 4th fl. New York, NY 10003
212-598-1155 waldandkimgallery.org
ARTISTS:
Alain Kirili, Byoung Ok Min,
Choong Sup Lim, KyungWoo Han,
MiKyung Kim, Po Kim,
Rakuko Naito, Raquel Rabinovich,
Robert C. Morgan,Ruth Hardinger,
Shen Chen, SungHo Choi
In recent years the art world has under gone tremendous changes involving expanded varieties of multimedia form. Diverse categories, such as modernism, avant-gardism, post-structuralism, and multiculturalism have given way to an unprecedented atmosphere of cultural globalization. Emerging artists from eastern and western hemispheres are evolving both within and beyond their indigenous cultures. Given the presence of cultural globalization, artists have begun to question such terms as aesthetic originality, formal purity and spiritual content. These cultural traditions are no longer considered absolute, but show evidence of engaging in flexibility and interactive projects. As a result, significant new concepts now reach between the center and the periphery, between the ideas of circulation and purification.
While New York is still considered the center of the international art world, artists from all around the world gather and communicate directly with one another. The strong diversity in the New York art world reveals a confidence and vibrant multicultural society. Culture exists in a way like oxygen in that the air we breathe never stops in one place, but always circulates. Artists get a new energy by breathing within this cultural environment. They are willing to absorb new ideas and interact on different levels. Many of those who come from outside the United States struggle to keep their identity in their works, while at the same time acculturating influences from around them. As a result, there are interactions within this extraordinary hybrid of international artists involved in the role that contemporary art plays in society today.
The exhibition, “Breathing” highlights different aspects of art in New York. The twelve artists included here all come from different cultural backgrounds, different multicultural experiences, and different nations. These include France, Japan, China, Argentina, Korea, and the United States. The featured works by the various artists seek to launch a vibrant cross- cultural dialogue. This exhibition is focused on the intimate quality of each artist’s work, including their philosophical concepts. The selected works constitute a demonstrable engagement with East Asian aesthetics and philosophies. Each invited artist has been asked to present work that carries the kind of openness necessary for this kind of awareness and cross-cultural pollination
-Soojung Hyun Ph.D (Guest Curator of The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery)
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The Art Exhibition ‘About Painting’ at Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery in East Village in March
Posted by SB in ev arts, EV Arts, SB in EV Arts on February 19, 2011
‘ABOUT PAINTING’ curated by Joe Barnes at Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery
Artists:
RUPERT EDER
IVO RINGE
JON GROOM
JOE BARNES
Exhibition : March 1st – March 22nd, 2011
Opening Reception : March 2nd/Wed. 6 to 8 pm
Opening Hours : Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm
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Sylvia Wald’s 95th Birthday Celebration
Posted by SB in EV Artists, ev arts, SB in EV Arts on November 1, 2010
Sylvia Wald, founder of The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, had her 95th birthday celebration on October 30th, 2010, at her gallery. Many came to congratulate her
Sylvia Wald was born in 1915 in Philadelphia and studied art at Moore Institute in Philadelphia before moving to New York in 1930′s. As a socially and politically conscious artist, in thirties and forties, her illustration art works in free press publications addressed the social and racial inequalities of the day. Her painting style was associated with American Magic Realism and Surrealism. In the forties and in fifties, she developed an experimental print making method, which garnered her a title of a pioneer Abstract Expressionist printmaker. From 1960′s to recent years, Wald’s sculptural works started to take precedent over her two dimensional works. Made with found objects combined with roughly built up surfaces, works were noted for “vital in its ever developing quality”. Wald’s works are featured in many national and international collections, among them: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, in New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, and Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Grunewald Collection Museum, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
Sylvia Wald’s Selected Works
Excerpt from Sylvia Wald’s documentary video
-from the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery
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