Sangmi Yoo: Stereotyped Ordinary: Installation and Prints
January 15 - February 15,2020
Stereotyped Ordinary: Installation and Prints, an exhibition and installation by Sangmi Yoo for PrintAustin 2020. Using a combination of digitally printed and laser cutting techniques, Sangmi has created a large-scale installation of works that celebrate the often thought of as “ordinary” architectural structures around us including what may seem as a stereotypical “house” or “home”. Her work and images are based on childhood memories of New Village houses from Korea and everyday encounters of standardized residential buildings from living in West Texas, and a recent travel to Northern Ireland and other global locations. The juxtaposition of photo-based and prints in this exhibition brings into existence optical illusions through distortions of the original houses, which compares the notion of ideal home as a tangible subject versus illusion. Korean-born artist, Sangmi Yoo is Professor and Associate Director of Art at Texas Tech University and received an MFA in printmaking from The Ohio State University and a BFA in painting from Seoul National University. Her creative activity features the first Wolhee Choe Memorial Award as part of 2014 AHL Foundation's Visual Arts Prize in New York, the 2012 Seacourt Print Workshop Artist-in-Residence in Northern Ireland, a 2010 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, the 2009 Springfield Art Museum Purchase Award, exhibitions at American University Museum in Washington DC, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, the Museum of Printing History in Houston, the Moonshin Museum in Korea, the Gyeongnam International Art Festival in Korea and the 2008 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition (Christchurch, New Zealand), and museum collections at the Art Bank of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea, the Springfield Art Museum and The Museum of Texas Tech University, among others.
Opening: January 25, 2020 | 6-8 pm
Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking
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