Artist Talk - Soo Sunny Park: Light as a Sculptural Material
When: Thursday,
September 10, 2020
6:30 PM
-
8:00 PM
Where: > See description for location
Cost: Free
Description: Soo Sunny Park: Light as a Sculptural Material
Date: Thursday, AHA! Night, September 10 at 6.30 pm
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/SooSunnyParkDatma
Meeting ID: 919 4892 3573, Passcode: DATMA
An Artist Talk delivered by Soo Sunny Park, will contextualize 'Photo Kinetic Grid', a site specific light installation presented by the Massachusetts Design Art and Technology Institute (DATMA) shown at the Star Store Campus in Downtown New Bedford through September 14, 2020. This reflective light installation was admired this summer by many New Bedford residents and visitors at the UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus' new Swain Studio at the corner of Union & Purchase Streets.
Artist Statement:
Over the last fifteen years, my work has moved towards casting light as sculptural material. I reconfigure boundary materials, fencing, plastic, glass, sheetrock in order to expand and explore a variety of liminal spaces between inside and outside, sculpture and drawing, vision and perception, objects and their shadows. Light is usually treated as a liminal being: something that mediates our visual awareness of the world, but not something that we see in and of itself. In my work, light is not just a means by which the form is seen, but part of what constitutes the work of art. Light is a sculptural material, not because without it one cannot see the forms, but because without it there is no projection, reflection, translucency, or shadow so the drawing / sculpture is not complete.
Born in Seoul, Korea, Soo Sunny Park moved to the U.S. at the age of ten and grew up in Marietta, Georgia and Orlando, Florida. Park is a Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio and an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, she worked in St. Louis, Missouri as an installation artist and Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2001, she was awarded the River Front Times' Best of 2001 Sculptor of St. Louis. Park was, as well, a recipient of the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant; the Grand Prize winner of the 19th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition; the Helen Foster Barnett Prize, National Academy Museum, New York; Cite Internationale des Arts Studio Residency, Paris, France; The Rockefeller Foundation, The Bellagio Center Residency, Bellagio, Italy; Kultur Osterbotten Fellowship, Ateljà Stundars Residency, Korsholm, Finland; Vancouver Biennale 2014-15 Residency, British Columbia, Canada; and the Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence, Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee.
More info: datma.org, www.soosunnypark.com
Date: Thursday, AHA! Night, September 10 at 6.30 pm
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/SooSunnyParkDatma
Meeting ID: 919 4892 3573, Passcode: DATMA
An Artist Talk delivered by Soo Sunny Park, will contextualize 'Photo Kinetic Grid', a site specific light installation presented by the Massachusetts Design Art and Technology Institute (DATMA) shown at the Star Store Campus in Downtown New Bedford through September 14, 2020. This reflective light installation was admired this summer by many New Bedford residents and visitors at the UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus' new Swain Studio at the corner of Union & Purchase Streets.
Artist Statement:
Over the last fifteen years, my work has moved towards casting light as sculptural material. I reconfigure boundary materials, fencing, plastic, glass, sheetrock in order to expand and explore a variety of liminal spaces between inside and outside, sculpture and drawing, vision and perception, objects and their shadows. Light is usually treated as a liminal being: something that mediates our visual awareness of the world, but not something that we see in and of itself. In my work, light is not just a means by which the form is seen, but part of what constitutes the work of art. Light is a sculptural material, not because without it one cannot see the forms, but because without it there is no projection, reflection, translucency, or shadow so the drawing / sculpture is not complete.
Born in Seoul, Korea, Soo Sunny Park moved to the U.S. at the age of ten and grew up in Marietta, Georgia and Orlando, Florida. Park is a Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio and an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, she worked in St. Louis, Missouri as an installation artist and Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2001, she was awarded the River Front Times' Best of 2001 Sculptor of St. Louis. Park was, as well, a recipient of the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant; the Grand Prize winner of the 19th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition; the Helen Foster Barnett Prize, National Academy Museum, New York; Cite Internationale des Arts Studio Residency, Paris, France; The Rockefeller Foundation, The Bellagio Center Residency, Bellagio, Italy; Kultur Osterbotten Fellowship, Ateljà Stundars Residency, Korsholm, Finland; Vancouver Biennale 2014-15 Residency, British Columbia, Canada; and the Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence, Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee.
More info: datma.org, www.soosunnypark.com
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