The Drawing Room은 뉴욕과 뉴저지를 기반으로 활동하는 한인 예술가들의 모임입니다. 2009년부터 작업과 전시를 통한 그룹활동을 이어오고 있습니다.
창의적인 활동에는 긍정적에너지가 요구되며, 지속적인 예술 활동을 위해서는 이해와 공감이 무엇보다 필요하기에 The Drawing Room의 멤버들은 신뢰를 바탕으로 서로 격려하고 영감을 주고받으며 성장하고 있습니다.
멤버들은 각기 다른 분야에서 활동하고있지만 창작에 대한 열정과 따뜻한 마음을 나누며 전시와 모임을 통해 재미있게 연대합니다. 예술과 문화의 가치와 더불어 균형잡힌 일상생활과 삶의 방향성을 찾아나가는 과정 또한 모임을 통해 모색됩니다.
The Drawing Room의 전시를 통해 긍정적인 기운과 예술을 통한 즐거움이 관객들에게도 전해져 우리 모두의 삶이 더 풍성해 질 수 있기를 바랍니다.
The Drawing Room is an organization comprised of Korean American artists pursuing joy through contemporary visual art. Since its establishment in 2009, the group has gone on to host many group exhibitions.
The Drawing Room members believe art can enrich and transform the world into a better place. All members are dedicated to share creative and positive energy with the public through their work.
Although each member of the Drawing Room is in a different field, we all enthusiastically pursue creativity, healthy states of mind, and positive energy.
The Drawing Room members share honest opinions and feedback based on trust, and we move forward while encouraging and inspiring each other. Our open-minded conversations also stimulate creativity.
In addition to seeking value in culture and art, we also discuss the quest for balance and direction in everyday life.
Our group exhibitions showcase how we walked together facing life’s obstacles while pursuing each step as an artist in solidarity. And we are looking forward to continuing our journey together step by step for many more years slowly but surely transforming the world.
MDes in Interior Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design
BFA in Environmental Design at Maryland Institute College of Art
MFA and BFA in Fiber Arts at Ewha Womans University
A Kaleidoscope of Lines/ Forms/ Patterns | Materials For The Arts | Long Island City, NY | 2023
Gift Box | Garage Art Center | Bayside | NY | 2022
Floating Imagery | Cahoon Museum of American Art | Cotuit, MA | 2021
Immersion in Black and White: Heeseop Yoon and Sui Park | Sapar Contemporary | New York, NY | 2021
Biomorphic Structure | MONO PRACTICE | Baltimore, MD | 2020
Public Art Project | The 6th Edition Georgetown GLOW | Pompom | Georgetown, Washington D.C. | 2019
Sui Park is a New York based artist born in Seoul, Korea. Her work involves creating 3-dimensional flexible organic forms of a comfortable ambiance that are yet dynamic and possibly mystical or illusionary.
She had several solo exhibitions and public art projects including Pompom in Georgetown, Washington D.C. in 2019 and Floating Imagery at the Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York in 2018. She participated in over 120 exhibitions, including an exhibition, The 5th Textile Art of Today at Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava, Slovak republic where she received the Excellent Award in September 2018.
Park’s artwork has been acquired by numerous places including Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Oregon and Saks Fifth Avenue Flagship Store in New York in the United States. Numerous mentions of her work and projects were published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Artnet, Vice and Colossal as well as many other publications.
My work involves creating 3-dimensional organic forms in generic and biomorphic shapes. Through these forms, I attempt to express seemingly static yet dynamic characteristics of our evolving lives. While they resemble transitions and transformations of nature, the forms are to capture subtle but continuous changes in our emotions, sentiments, memories and expectations.
I weave and connect traces and tracks of subtle changes into organic forms. The organic forms are made with mass-produced industrial materials, in particular, Monofilament and Cable Ties. They are non–durable, disposable, trivial, inexpensive and easily consumed materials. But, when I weave and connect them, they are transformed into organic visualizations. I want them to be creating lasting moments, evoking and encapsulating our precious thoughts.
I often find these moments from nature. I think nature allows us to pause and find things that have been overlooked and are inspiring. Nature provides me with rooms to find breakthroughs and answers, and gives me time to ponder into thoughts. Through my work, I want to bring to our attention the moments that nature allows us to find and look forward. I present nature in abstract and porous ways so that they can be filled with our thoughts and moments.
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Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
BFA in Fashion Design, 2001
LG Chemical Commercial Film Stage Costume Design, 2000
Miss Hong’s Laughing Stone company Stage Costume Design, 2000
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Yohangza Theatre Company Stage Costume Design, 2000
Finalist, Seoul Venture Design Contest, 2002
The Drawing Room
2022 My Body is a Battleground, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL
2022 Becoming American, Minot State University, Minot, ND
Everything Must Go, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2021Documented Identity, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2020Consuming Memories, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2020The Stranger in Heaven, Kreft Center Gallery, Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI
2019American Dream, University of Maine at Farmington, ME
2019American Stitches, Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University Ames School of Art, IL
2018United Stitches, NJ Emerging Artist in the 2018 - 2019 Series at the Monmouth Museum, NJ
Dong Kyu Kim is a mixed-media artist and fashion designer whose works are constructed of paper receipts, tickets, and other materials collected over the past 14 years since relocating to the United States. All his materials are sewn together by hand. Kim’s work explores his relationship to the U.S., the concept of the American dream, and how individual lives are affected by transitions in global economic structures.
Kim has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. He recently received a 2021 New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and his work has received awards from many institutions, including the Florida State University Museum of Arts, FL; Oklahoma State University, OK; Minot State University, ND; and many others. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Fashion Design.
Purchase College SUNY
The Art Students League of New York
BFA in Fine Arts, 2010 2012-current
The 2nd Annual Homeless Benefit Event | New York, NY, Apr. 2013
KwangHwaMoon Intnationl Art Fair | Seoul, S. Korea, Apr. 2013
PAC Group Exhibition | KCC Bennett Gallery, NJ, Apr. 2013
Trio Exhibition | Highwire Gallery, PA, Mar. 2013
Artist of the Month Show | Edward Hopper House, NY, Feb. 2013
Honor Reward Group Exhibition | Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NY, Feb. 2013
Member Exhibition | Edward Hopper House, NY, Jan. 2013
Solo Exhibition | Riverside Gallery, NJ, Dec. 2012
Selected Work Exhibition | Manhattan Borough President’s Office, NY, Dec. 2012
Group exhibition | Philip Jaisohn Gallery, PA, Dec. 2012
Journey III | St. Asaph Gallery, PA, Nov. 2012
Journey II | Da Vinci Art Alliance, PA, May. 2012
Bolt Art Fair | Tenri Cultural Institute, NY, Feb. 2012
Bolt Art Fair | Fullerton, CA, Jan. 2012
Annual Member Exhibition | Edward Hopper House Art Center, NY, Jan. 2012
Small But Significant | Philip Jaisohn Gallery, PA, Dec. 2011
Asian:American–Homogenous | The Asian Art Initiative, PA, Aug. 2011
Grand Opening Exhibition | Art & Light Gallery, CA, Jul. 2011
Side by Side Exhibition | Highwire Gallery, PA, Jun. 2011
GwangHwaMoon International Art Fair | Seoul, S. Korea, May. 2011
Dialog Without Walls | Philip Jaisohn Gallery, PA, Dec. 2010
New York Society of Women Artists
Piermont Flywheel Gallery
Having earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from State University of New York, Purchase, the same year she turned fifty, Sueim Koo’s foray into the world of professionals kicked off late in life. She has nevertheless been prolific in creating and sharing her artwork. This exhibition will be another one of her emotional expression of her own world.
Koo embarked on a journey to recreate landscapes using the emotions she had felt as a teenage girl. These emotions came from her old diary she wrote as a seventeen year-old girl. Though Koo’s work depicts landscapes, these landscapes lie beyond the geographic imagery itself. Instead, each canvas holds in it a story, fraught with the emotional depths of a teenager watching her hometown, Jong-Ro in Seoul, South Korea, being torn down, and with it the importance of her youth.
Through a state-of-mind between that which is half remembered and half imagined, Koo creates vivid landscapes, which capture the form of places she left behind, and colored with the emotions she once felt. The process of choosing colors and defining the shapes and patterns of rice papers is not about creating something aesthetically pleasing. Rather, these are the means by which Koo reconstructs broken memories and seeks to rediscover her feelings. Furthermore, Koo orchestrate the colors and forms as soft and romantic musical pitches so that her diary landscapes become an elegiac portrayal of her state of mind.
For each work, Koo is willing to transfer a sentence from diary to the title. The title of the work full of purple of rice paper with some touch of pink paper is “The beginning of the fall of 1993 was a pinkish, heartbroken time. And it turned ashen at the end. Was it one-sided love?” And “The cyan-green longing spread out to that summer.” is the title of the work with dark green with spreading of variety color papers.
From hope, to despair, to excitement, to longing, the body of work is filled with a sense of inspiration and rediscovery of past, present, and future. And Koo’s diary is still being continued...
Pratt Institute, Manhattan, NY
MS in Museums and Digital Culture, 2019
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
BFA in Communications Design, 2001
Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
Korean Traditional Folk Art Painting, 2011
Modern Virtue in Pigment & Ink | Closter Public Library, Closter, NJ, 2019
Echoing Roar | Art Mora Gallery, Chelsea, NY, 2016
Back to Circle | Piermont Public Library, Piermont, NY, 2016
Books vs. Pocketbooks | Ridgewood Public Library, Ridgewood, NJ, 2016
Roar | Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY, 2016
Artist of the month exhibition | Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY, 2016
Wish | Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY, 2015
Special Prize, Contemporary Women Fine Art Association, South Korea, 2012
Prize of Selection, The Traditional Culture Arts Promotion Association, South Korea, 2012
Excellence Award for Outstanding Merit in Graphic Design, Pratt Institute, 2001
Circle Award for Academic Achievement, Pratt Institute, 2001
Lee studied in Busan art high school in South Korea and earned MS and BFA at Pratt Institute. She has been selected as a participating artist in many art fairs including Spectrum Miami Art Show, Fountain Art Fair and Affordable Art Fair. As an artist & a curator, she held many exhibitions in the U.S and in overseas, and has been awarded numerous occasions for her exceptional art work.
She is also teaching Korean Folk Art in New York Queens area.
Minhwa is a decorative everyday art containing love, dream, belief in fortune, wish for longevity and happiness that transcends all religious beliefs. Its informality and symbolic expressions convey various feelings of happiness, love and delight in everyday life. Bright colors are used to reflect purity, and to ward off evil while symmetrical composition shows harmony that enrich people’s lives.
Because of many common elements between Lee’s own design backgrounds and her view of the world, Lee is enchanted and inspired by Minhwa and continues to do experimental work in various perspectives.
Dejected to see the Korean traditional folk art (Minhwa) becoming disconnected and distant from the modern day society, I had a discerning desire to preserve it by reenacting it. Employing the unique symbolic, decorative, and symmetrical attributes of the Minhwa while applying the traditional methods, I have attempted to show the contrast of “the old” and “the new” by juxtaposing them. While the objects of desire may have metamorphosed with passage of time, the undying desires of human beings - wealth, health, beauty, knowledge, and accumulation of fame- never withered, and are everlasting.
My ancestors’ artworks reveal a longing for a beautiful and ideal world. Yet, so called ‘perfect lives’ are too distant from the reality hence becomes the object of our desire. Using similar outlay and composition of the traditional folk art of the past times, I suggested that the ideal life that we all yearn for is not unattainable and can easily be found in one’s own mundane daily life. Once we, the people of the modern society, start to discover and attain our wishes in small things within our surroundings, perhaps we may be less occupied and more contended and appreciative of our current state.
I juxtaposed the materialistic wealth that modern day people yearn for alongside the aspirations of ancient Korean ancestors for wealth and prestigious status in society. The façade of modern day people’s longings and desires may differ from those of the ancient Korean ancestors, yet the longing for wealth and attainment for prestigious positions in society seems to remain the same.
However, extravagant objects in my paintings are not employed to reveal the negative aspects of materialism. Rather, it is an interpretation of how these materialistic yearning of human kind can be a positive element in modern society if they are employed to urge people to do their earnest best to obtain the “it.”
Just as the people of the olden days wished well for others while exchanging these paintings, I wish the public wealth, and success through my artwork.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
MFA in Fiber Art, 2009
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Post-baccalaureate
Fine Art, 2007
Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, MFA
Painting, 2006
Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, BFA
Painting & 2D Design, 2004
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, 2016
I-Park Foundation Artist-in-Residence, East Haddam, Connecticut, 2014
NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, 2012
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space, Governors Island, New York, 2011
Sculpture Space, Utica, New York, 2011
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Manie, 2009
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado, 2009
Ephemerality, Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon, New York, 2016
Mind out of Time, Here Arts Center, New York, New York, 2013
Sensory Thought, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art, Wilmington, Delaware, 2011
Cleansing the Memories, KEPCO Plaza gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2011 Watching the Mind, 4Art gallery, Kyunggi-do, Korea, 2009
Watching the Mind, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI, 2009
Ephemeral, ABBA Fine Art, Miami, FL, 2009
Line of Thought, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, 2008
Jayoung Yoon is an artist based in Beacon, New York. She earned her BFA from Hongik University in South Korea, and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States and Korea including at Here Art Center, Museum of New Art, Jersey City Museum, Ohio Craft Museum, and Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Korea.
She has attended residencies at Skowhegan School of painting and Sculpture, Lower Manhattan cultural council’s Swing space, Anderson ranch Arts center, and Sculpture Space among others. Most recently, she was awarded the Vermont Studio center Fellowship, and The Artist in the Marketplace program at Bronx Museum.
My work draws upon the mind-matter phenomenon, exploring our thought systems, perception and body sensations. Human hair is intimately corporeal, tactile and focuses the viewer’s attention on the body. Also, since hair doesn’t decay long after death, it is an especially appropriate symbol of remembrance. Each strand of hair is hand knotted or woven into forms, which become transparent like invisible thoughts, and memories. The sculptures are often used in my video and performance works.
I use the hair sheared from my head, then transform the hair into wearable sculptures. It comes back to my body with new symbolism, which represents invisible thoughts. In the videos, I connect the ‘invisible thoughts’ to my head, often lifting slowly into the air and disappearing, as a cleansing gesture. The videos become ritualistic meditation ceremonies. My head is shaved, as monks do, representing a detachment from materialist identity. I meditate with my back to the camera, embodying a detachment from gender, culture, and thought. The immersive quality of videos in conjunction with my androgynous appearance invites viewers to inhabit my body, and experience the process of clearing the mind.
Also I make stand-alone non-wearable sculptures, which I sometimes use in video and performance, or collectively they become an immersive installation. Weaving and knotting the hair by hand instead of using machinery creates unique, organic shapes both in the details and in the larger form. The weightless hair sculptures move from the airflow created by a viewer’s movements and from the environment. Those small movements in space, on an intricate scale, shift the viewer’s awareness toward subtle perceptions that are often taken for granted.
In my 2d work, I also use each strand of hair to create compositions of grids, and geometric shapes with repeated hair-lines. The diffused hair strands within layers of acrylic medium and beeswax, represent thoughts dissolving, or surfacing between states of the conscious and unconscious mind.
Long Island University C.W. Post Campus
MFA, 2012
Long Island University C.W. Post Campus
BFA, 2009
2017 Invisible Origins, Medical Science gallery, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
2016 Social Organism, Gallery charraple, New York, NY
2015 Fill in the Blank, bcs gallery, Long Island city, NY
Juried Exhibition 2015 Korean Cultural Center, Washington DC
Juried Exhibition 2013 Governors Island Art Fair
Bank Asiana 22 Artist Exhibition, Award of Appreciation
Long Island University Dean’s Award,2012
C.W. Post 2011 Fall Graduate assistant Scholarship
O’Malley Scholarship from Long Island University Art Department
Art Department Award for Excellence in Mixed Media
Dong Hee Lee is a New York –based installation artist. She represents generative power and mysteries of our physical and spiritual realities. She uses hot glue as her primary material, which allows her to create the abstract organic forms of webs, clusters and pouches.
She was born in Korea and currently lives in New York. She received her BFA in 2009 and MFA in 2012, both from Long Island University C.W. Post, NY. Lee has had ten solo shows and participated in many selected group exhibitions in USA, Korea and Italy. She has received numerous reviews in the Washington Post, Times Ledger, Newsis, Korea Daily News, Hyper allergic, etc.
Life comes into existence through competition for survival. My work uses abstract patterns and forms to evoke the drama and beauty of our invisible origins. The human egg is the only perfectly spherical cell in the human body – a glowing, radiating organism. This image is symbolized in my work as a web of interconnected circles; each circle carefully formed molten glue and “drawn” using a glue gun.
The synthetic glue material is shiny and pliant, like a membrane. I create hundreds of these small, extruded circles in a process of accumulation that suggests gestation and the multiplication of cells. The combination of small repeating units becomes large complex forms, either sculptural objects or patterns on canvas.
I choose symbols of the creation of life because this represents generative power and the mysteries of our physical and spiritual realities. My art is about transformation and the infinity within us.
Pratt Institute, NY, MFA in Painting 2004
Kyonggi University, South Korea, BFA in Painting, 2000
2013 "Life Lines", AHA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 "Breathing Lines", Yegam Art Space, Flushing, NY
2011 "At That Moment", Hutchins Gallery, Long Island University, NY
2011 "One's Own Room: Endless Connection II", Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2011 "One's Own Room: Endless Connection", 112 chashama Time Sqare Gallery, NY
2009 "YON", Kips Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "Self-portraits and the After", 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "Self-portrait series", Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, blue Mountain Lakes, NY
2003 "Self-Portraits Thesis Show", Steuben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Hyo Jeong Nam is a Korean-born artist, living and working in New York. She received her M.F.A at Pratt Institute in New York and B.F.A from Kyonggi University in Korea. Since she graduated from Pratt, she had eight solo shows.
In 2013, she had solo show at Yegam Art Space and a two person show at AHA Fine Art. She also participated in many group exhibitions in other galleries, museums and art fairs in US and Korea, such as Kips gallery, SICA, chashama, Scope Art Fair, Red Dot Art Fair, and Fountain Art Fair.
She was a resident at Gallery Aferro, Ox-Bow and Vermont Center with a full scholarship.
2010 Vermont Studio Center, VT (Full Fellowship Awarded
2009 Afferro Gallery Residency, Newark, NJ
2008 Ox-Box Residency Program, Saugatuck, MI
1999 Award from "Na Hae Suk Competition"
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Curating & Graphic Design by Stephanie S. Lee | ©2013 The Drawing Room. All rights reserved.