Gahae Park

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Education

B.F.A. Sculpture, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea

M.F.A. Painting, Pratt Institute, New York, USA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2016 456 Gallery, New York

2014 Nabi Museum of The Arts, NJ,USA

2013 Tompkins Square NY, Public Library Gallery, New York

2012 Hutchins Gallery, Long Island University, New York

2010 Lab gallery, New York, USA

2008 Tenri cultural Institute, New York, USA

2007 Saint Peter's Church, Narthex Gallery, NY, USA

2005 Bronx River Art Center, New York, USA

2002 Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, USA

2001 Stephen Gang Gallery, New York, USA

2000 Stueben West Gallery, New York, USA

1995 Seokyoung Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1992 Sonahmoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1990 Batangol Gallery, Seoul, Korea

  

Two Person Show

2011 A Gathering of Tribes Gallery, New York

1998 Kavehez café Gallery, New York

1986 Sokumchango Gallery, Korea

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 The Art of Meditation, Islip Art Museum, NY

          Paper Moon, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Greece

          Flat ? Flatfile. Kentler International Drawing Space. NY

2014 Shades of time, Queens Museum of Art, New York

2013 Inside Out, Flatfile, Kentler International Drawing Space, NY

2013 Neo Composition, Yegam art Space, New York

2011 International Paper Art Biennial, Sofia, Bulgaria

          Be One, Tompkins Square Library gallery, New York

          Drawing into Air, Maum Gallery, New York

          Quiet Places, Bronx Art Space, New York

          It’s all Good, Sideshow gallery, New York

2010 Chasing dreams 56,the space, Maum Gallery, NY

          Treasures from the Mythology, Yegam Gallery, New York

          Wind,.. Maum Gallery, New York

          It’s a Wonderful 10th, Side Show Gallery, New York

2009 Face & Facts, Korea Cultural Service, New York

2008 Visual Sound, Closter Art Center, NJ, USA

2007 Korea Now, Hutchens Gallery, New York

          Project Diversity Queens, Jamaica Center, New York

2006 Object Desire, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2005 Unwonted Composite, Korea Cultural Service, New York

2001 Universal Sounding, Poetry, Stephen Gang Gallery, New York

2000 Environmentally Concerned 2, Bronx River Art Center, New York

          This earth is Flower, International Artist' Museum, Poland

1999 Confluence of Cultures, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

1997 Shoe project, Pratt Gallery, New York

1994-88 Hong Ik Sculpture Exhibition, Korea Art Center, Seoul

1989 Situation, Time, Space, Sonhmoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

          Fusion 21C,Soonamoo Gallery, Korea  

1986 New Direction'86,Yoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

          Independents, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

 

Performs and Poetry Reading

1997 zinc Bar, Poetry Reading, New York

1998 Trans Hudson Gallery, performs and reading, New York

1998 Space Untitled, In Praise of Forces of Nature, Poetry Reading, New York

2001 Universal Sounding,- Reading, Stephen Gang Gallery, New York

          A Gathering of Tribes( Tribes Gallery) Poetry Reading, New York

 

Professional Experiences

2004 SVA Visiting Artist and Lecture- Art into Ideas ( New York)

2005 Parsons School of Design, visiting Korean artist-Lecture(New York)

2009 Parsons School of Design, Interview, Visiting Artist.(New York)

 

Bibliography

Asian Art News,2016,NY

Live mag,no11,2015,NY

 

Review       

Time out New York 9/21/2011,New York

Sculpture, Dec.2009, New York

Brooklyn Rail Feb.2008, New York

Chelsea Now,Jan.2008, New York

Art in America, Sept.2006, New York

Art in Culture, Sept. 2005, Korea

Misool Segye, Sept. 2005, Korea

Misool Segye, Sept. 2002, Korea

aNYthing Magazine, May, 2002, New York          

Art in Culture,Nov.2001, Korea

NY ARTS, Dec.2001, New York

Art in America, March, 2001, New York

Art Press,261,Oct.2000, Paris, New York

Dieu Donne Press, April, 2000, New York

Tray Daily Bulletin,Dec.1999, North Carolina 

Wolgan Misool, May,1995, Korea

       

Awards      

2012 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant

2006 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant

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Residency   

2006 The Edward F. Albee Foundation       

1999 Art Omi Foundation 

              

Public Collections

The Edward F. Albee Foundation

Art Omi Foundation

International Artist' museum in Poland

Art Start - A Sponsored Project of New York - Foundation for the Arts

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          My work fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and intellectual forms by drawing with Cut paper, shaping and layering positive and negative space into rhythms.  The paper is meticulously Cut and composed, opened and closed, with a focus on creating lines that specify coherent patterns of Light and shadows on a grid, forming a visual musical structure. In essence, the paper itself becomes the Instrument that draws light into visual musical patterns. I use music as my inspiration. I translate sound Into linear patterns that can be interpreted as either a visual image in terms of lines and compositions And a literary one in terms of a language to be deciphered and read. Listening to music , I feel a space that flows like a river. This space is a real physical space. It is an abstract and metaphysical realm for me. Music, by evoking that abstract space, inspires me to create new spaces through my art. A visual sound A diagram is related to a heartbeat with feeling.

 

          I received an MFA in painting from Pratt, New York and Hong ik University in Seoul. I have exhibited among others at The international Paper Art Biennial, Sofia, Bulgaria, International Artist’ Museum, Poland, and National Museum of contemporary Art, Seoul, and at the Queens Museum of Art, NY, Museum of contemporary Art of Crete, Greece,  Islip Art Museum , NY and  received The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, The Edward F. Albee Foundation fellowship, The Art  Omi Fellowship,  and   have been reviewed Art in America, Sculpture magazine, Asian art News and Brooklyn Rail. And have been collected by the public collection of the Edward F. Albee Foundation and International Artist’ Museum,  Poland, New York Foundation   For The Arts,NY and National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Korea.

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