Past Exhibition
Detail of Exhibit II
"A memory of the Island"
April 02, 2005 ~ April 30, 2005
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| Sabina Lee Gallery
is pleased to present "A MEMORY OF THE ISLAND" ,
an interactive sculptural and photographic installation, recent drawing by
SungHong Min. The work created by SungHong Min is deals with the transformation of our existence. The form is featured in a pictorial language of repetition through using reproduced photo-documentation and hand-crafted objects and ice-sculptures. SungHong Min creates various beak-like ceramic forms, also human like figures, and then rebounds them into the photographs. The structural evolution of the beak in nature represents metaphorically in changing the individual's physical, emotional and conceptual relation to the social environment. The individual sculptures rest on a small pedestal with a framed family photo that creates a backdrop, or a stage like sitting. The distinct dialogue between the real figure and photograph is called into question, What is the truth in the transformation of our existence? SungHong Min lives and works in San Francisco. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, May 2004. He received the Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts from San Francisco Foundation and was in the residence at Montana Artists Refuge. SungHong has had solo exhibitions at the University of Montana Gallery and E3 Gallery in New York. "A MEMORY OF THE ISLAND" is his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. |