Artists in Residence Show
February 2020
Averill Park, NY, United States
17, Geuryung Lee
The title of my artwork, which is "17", is that a gun shoot accident happened at the high school in Florida in 2018. A former student unleashed a hail of gunfire in a Florida high school on Wednesday, killing at least 17 adults and children. As I am a mother who has two kids, I notice the social messages through my artwork. I use the number, letter, signs, symbols, gestures, color, texture to convey situations, context, and social content.
I tried to print drypoint in various ways. I engraved plexiglass plate by hand, I made laser engraving plexiglass and I tried to print both multiple plates on the same paper. It is a challenging experiment and not an easy process. I failed at laser engraving print several times. Finally, I could succeed in the laser engraving print. It was a constructive and worthy process. The subject of my work is an abstraction composed of lines, circles, rectangular and curves. There is simplicity in my work.
Seeing a great view, without me, Hojin Lee
The adjective " Great " commonly means " good " or "great achievement", but in the dictionary, it means "large" or "immense".
I think about logical process or trap when an objective indicator is displaced with which connotes positive meaning. If you felt wild energy collision rather than the worship of the greatness of the world, it is because there will because you have a doubt about this logic. When I face the huge city landscape that is about to explode and the energy swirling in it, I feel alienated from the landscape. At that moment, I feel my own soul who is a physical being and at that moment I encounter my inner landscape that is very calm while the madness of city is filed with speed. According to Foucault, my presence can be perceived only through the others, therefore, the roar of the city with the speed of fascist dramatically exposes my inner surface which is very quiet. That moment can disappear without definition and can fade away with other landscape. However, that short dramatic experience leaves something in me, which makes me face my shabbiness and my true self.
Photography Hyunbae Chang & Jennifer Park
Post Production Jennifer Park
