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Resume_Jong-un Choi

myART — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:19:58 -0400

EDUCATION:

Present Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Master’s program in Painting

2007 Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Master’s in Fine Arts

2004 Ewha Womans University, Seoul,South Korea

Bachelor’s in Fine Arts

EXHIBITION:

Solo Exhibitions

2010 SPACE, K.Dees coffee, IN, USA

2008 SPACE, Young Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007 ANOTHER VISION BEHIND, DOS Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007 SPACE, Jang Eun Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2006 SPACE, Gallery the Space, Seoul, Korea

Two-person Exhibitions & Art Fair

2007 Beijing 798 Contemporary Korean & Chinese Art, 706 Gallery, Beijing, China

2007 ART SEOUL, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

2006 ART SEOUL, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

2006 Chaos n Cosmos by Hyun sun Jo and Jong-un Choi, Gallery the Space, Seoul, Korea

2005 Guk jin Seo and Jong-un Choi, Seizy Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions

2011 Big Ten Conference 2011-12 Graduate Student Fine Art Exhibit, Park Ridge, IL, USA

Anderson Ranch Annual Art Auction, Snowmass Village, CO, USA

64 ARTS National Juried Exhibition, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL, USA

NASL Visual Art Show, Bloomington, IN, USA

Westwood, West Lafayette, IN, USA

14º Purdue Grad Art Show, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, West Lafayette, IN, USA

2010 Westwood, West Lafayette, IN, USA

The Kaumba Project, Chicago, IL, USA

2009 Borrowed Ground, the Lions Club Building, Battle Ground, IN, USA

2008 Someday, Open the Door, Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Small Pictures, Korean Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2007 Spread Impression, KeumSan Gallery, Has Gallery, Heyri, Korea

Contemporary Korean Painting, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Divinity of Korean Art, Gallery Chosun, Seoul, Korea

Expression of the Sensibility of Korean Paintng , E- hyoung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Exhibition by Chaeyon, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2006 6th plus minus “Love is...," Gallery Dos, Seoul, Korea

Korean Painting - New Eyes, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

EPOCH / Art Museum, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea

The celebration in EPOCH, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

7th plus minus “Treasure Beyond the Memory,” Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea

Exhibition by Chaeyon, Lamer, Seoul, Korea

2005 Perfection of the Beautiful Autonomy, Lotte Art Gallery, Ilsan, Korea

The 2nd Young Artists' Prospect, Gallery All, Seoul, Korea

The Object, Gallery With White, Seoul, Korea

An Exchange of World Colleges - WAVE, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea

New East, Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea

La Jeune Creation Coreenne, Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris, France

5th plus minus “A Secret and A Lie”, Style Cube Zandari, Seoul, Korea

Beautiful Youth, Guoldam Gallery, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Exhibition by Chaeyon, Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2004 Young People's Breath 04'-breath, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea

“Who am I?" Gallery Sun&Moon, Seoul, Korea

The 5th New Millennium Young Artists, Tower Gallery, Busan, Korea

"Clothing-Painting INTENTION," Lotte Gallery, Anyang, Korea

AWARDS:

2010 the Visual Arts Committee’s Purchase Awards at Westwood, West Lafayette, IN

2006 Selected for Korean Grand Contest for Fine Arts,

National Museum of Contemporary Art Selected in EPOCH,

Art Museum, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea

2006 Selected for the Twenty-First Century ART - New Challenge,

DanWon Museum, Seoul, Korea

2004 Selected for the 2nd Seoul Art Grand-Prix,

The annexes of GyongBok and GyongHee Palaces, Seoul, Korea

2004 Selected for the DongA Art Festival,

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

ACTIVITIES:

2004-2008 Member of Chaeyon

2004-2008 Member of Plus Minus

2004-2008 Member of Korean Women’s Art Association

Reflection

myART — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:40:07 -0400

Infinite Scene

Reflections

myART — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:34:39 -0400

A bare tree at Grottos Trail in Aspen

Five at Grottos Trail in Aspen

Yellow Flower at Grottos Trail in Aspen

Reflections

myART — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:25:43 -0400

Grass in Aspen

More sky and Less trees in Aspen

Less sky and More trees in Aspen

Selective Consciousness

myART — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:59:41 -0400

While I was randomly walking down the street, I saw movements between visible objects through reflections in which I saw buildings, signs, lights, cars, and trees. My view continuously changed by way of the reflected images in mirrors and windows and they captivated my perception. I gradually gazed into glossy surfaces and my attention finally brought the objects into focus. Then I merely took up the reflected images in which there were indirectly recognizable objects, and I started forming my own aesthetic composition.

Based on the inception of my experience, I explored the convergence of reflected images in mirrors or windows using the lens of a camera as an alternative vision. Photographic work makes it possible for me to reproduce a secondary reality in which images are perceived to have value. The photographic images are actualized to refine my vision altogether and optimize my perspective. My perspective of objects is the implication of vision with my eyes in its material relation to the world. Therefore, a singular perspective, as I see through the lens, embodies my own existence. In this activity, there is only one standpoint where I, as a stationary spectator, am standing and engaging with my entire perception.

My painting is divided into binary parts: the reflected image I select and the outer space of the reflected image I do not select. I cut the actual objects out which directly appear to me and draw invisible objects, reflected from visible objects. The depicting of realistic visible content in a reflective surface corresponds to my perspective, my time and even my emotions when I catch them. I seize the moment immediately with my own consciousness and suggest the abstractive space of my own desire. While the reflected image is elaborately depicted as if the lens of the camera is showing, the rest of the space is filled with solid color smoothly painted. The reflected images I select actualize my existence and represent my consciousness of objects, whereas abstract color, the outer space of the reflected image, indicates either the spiritual or emotional space of my desire and reveals the visual impact with a fictive image by implication. The internal perception of the outer space of reflection has a psychological impact by a filtering of my experiences and absolute contrast with the depicted reflection.

The consciousness of reflected surfaces represents my own engagement in the urban vistas where I currently live and work. I have always been interested in the visual relationship between objects and space from an exploration of reflected images, and I have attempted to refine a mutual relationship between my vision and the reflected objects. In other words, the purpose of my work is to awaken my consciousness of objects and emphasize the relationships among objects. I want to express the structures based on the transcendental cognition in which I find my own existence. I believe the result of my work may be a well-designed creation in order to harmonize contemporary space based on my own view of visible objects.

Print_Selective Consciousness

myART — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:54:16 -0400

36x22 inch, Monoprint, 2010

20x34 inch, Monoprint, 2010

27x18 inch, Monoprint, 2010

21x13 inch, Monoprint, 2010

Selective Consciousness

myART — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:06:17 -0400

Oil on Wood Panel, 16x20", 2011

Selective Consciousness

myART — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:58:46 -0400

Oil on Wood Panel, 24x12", 2011

Selective Consciousness

myART — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:48:36 -0400

Oil on Wood Panel, 20x24", 2011

Selective Consciousness

myART — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:37:27 -0500

Artists are influenced regardless of time and place by their view of nature or the value system of the society they belong to. And artists adopt a motive from their experiences, memories or the environment surrounding them, and thereby express it with their own formative language. In the free current of contemporary art, I attempt to explore my own forms while researching into diverse experimentations and expressions.

In a culture dominated by visual images, most people use their eyes to obtain vast amounts of information without the need for direct or close physical contact. In order to realize my formative language, I started looking at objects carefully with the lens of a camera, and I borrowed the term “gaze” to describe the relationship between visual objects and myself. Among the movements of innumerable visual objects, my view converges on reflected images in mirrors and windows and they make me rediscover the modern landscape in which I am living.

This study consists of the following steps: First, I show how to deal with visible and invisible images in which I can find an understanding of my perceptions. Upon analyzing other artists’ artwork, I suggest what I want to express from reflected images. Second, I define the term “gaze” to find a connection between the objects and myself, as a viewer and I explore photographic artwork to support a mutual understanding between the lens of a camera and my vision. I also explore my viewpoint to identify my existence and represent my own engagement in an urban environment. Lastly, I discover my own consciousness through which I select and manipulate reflected images.

Through such a production of work, this study suggests a modern landscape rediscovered through my interpretation of consciousness, and thereupon, puts forward the direction for my future works on new spaces. Lastly, it is hoped that this study will provide a stepping stone for my future creative activities.

Oil on wood panel 2010 20x24"