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4/5/2007

Two exhibitions

Moti Hasson Gallery, New York

SOUTH GALLERY
Jiha Moon: fabulous fictions

Moti Hasson Gallery is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of Korean-born, Atlanta-based artist Jiha Moon. For this exhibition, the Gallery will showcase a rich array of Moon’s works, all of which are presented on Hanji paper, either as framed pieces or wrapped over stretchers. Ranging from intimate to large-scale, Moon combines opposing themes and complex relationships to create works that explore both personal, as well as experiences of larger social significance.

This paradoxical juxtaposition and conceptual opposition extends to the artist’s painting style and process. By exploring –- and thus exposing –- the dynamic relationship between abstraction and representation, drawing and painting, history and contemporary, east and west, it becomes apparent how Moon is spontaneous and experimental, allowing chance to play an equal part in her work as much as she does focused premeditation.

“Fabulous” not only describes Moon’s work aesthetically, but stems from the word “fabula,” or “fable.” Culled from her having lived in many places and experiencing diverse cultures ranging from her native Korea to Atlanta, Georgia, where she currently lives and works, Moon draws from personal, historical, and fantastical vantage points to create narratives that consistently evidence visions of paradoxical utopias.

Among a handful of contemporary artists hailed for challenging and extending the category of Asian American art, Moon continues to develop a stunning lexicon of mark making with this exhibition. The artist herself has stated, “I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds. I want to be a visual interpreter of the mixed cultural world of my generation.”

Moon, who received her Master of Arts from the University of Iowa (2002), has exhibited at premier New York venues including Asia Society, The Drawing Center, and White Columns, as well as in other group and solo shows across the United States and internationally. In 2008, Moon will also be featured in a solo exhibition at The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. She has been selected for residencies at Art Omi, Acadia Summer Art Program (Kippy Camp), and Singapore Tyler Print Institute through the Asia Society, among other awards. Her work is also part of such prestigious collections as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Asia Society and Museum, New York; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, among others, and has been critically received by The New York Times, Art Papers, The Washington Post, and The New York Sun, among others.


NORTH GALLERY
Shirley Shor: DISORDER

Moti Hasson Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of new work by Shirley Shor, her first since the gallery’s move to Chelsea. Born in Israel and currently living and working in San Francisco, Shor received her Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco State University in 2004.

Presenting three new works for the exhibition, Shor will project images through layers of physical and virtual materials to evoke imaginary landscapes, and incorporate custom software, video projection, and sculptural elements to create a hybrid between more traditional and newer forms of media.

Shor is among an emerging generation of artists redefining how new media can be utilized as vehicles for artistic production. Often combining painting, sculpture, and media images generated in real time -- or what the artist has termed “liquid architecture” -- Shor continues to play between the physical and the virtual in her works, using digital tools to examine the relationship between media and its projection onto the built environment, while consistently informed by formal investigations through the history of abstraction.

Shirley Shor has exhibited in the United States at the Berkeley Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Orange County Museum of Art, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, among others, as well as internationally at Ars Electronica, Haifa Museum of Art, and Herzliya Museum of Art. Her work has also received critical acclaim in various print and online publications, including Artforum.com, Artnet.com, as well as the Los Angeles Times, and is held in various public and private collections.

Concurrent to her gallery presentation, Landslide: A New Media Installation by Shirley Shor, is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, at The Jewish Museum from March 10 to August 5, 2007.

For more information or to receive images for both exhibitions, please contact the gallery at 212-268-4444 or email Ingrid Chu at ingrid@motihasson.com

Image: Jiha Moon, Ditch Drawing Project II, ink and acrylic on mylar 25" x 40", 2006

Opening reception: Saturday, May 5, 6 – 8 pm

Moti Hasson Gallery
535 West 25th St. New York, NY 10001
Gallery Hours are Monday to Saturday, from 10-8 pm and by appointment.

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