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Past Exhibition "Transplantation" Eung Ho Park September 9, 2006 ~ October 14, 2006 Back |
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Sabina Lee Gallery is pleased to announce
¡°Transplantation,¡± the first one person exhibition in Los Angeles by New York based artist
Eung Ho Park. Park will exhibit two large wall installations;
¡°Roots,¡± a 135¡±x 116¡± pen and ink drawing composed of 22 separate sheets of paper, and
¡°I¡¯m Looking At You;¡± five large panels covered with a network of bottle caps.
At the center of each cap Park has painted a human eye, some 3,750 in all. Park¡¯s persistent subject is the relationship of the individual to the group; the formal arrays he creates out of his found material illuminate the myriad psychological, political, cultural and ethnic issues that characterize the human social condition. ¡°Transplantation¡± was inspired by a complex chunk of a tree¡¯s root system Park found in a grungy park near his Brooklyn studio. The root reminded the artist of the ginseng root so important to the culture of his native South Korea and the connection sent him into a reverie that he captured in this monumental yet powerfully intimate drawing of an impossibly huge and complex root system that in turn forms the silhouette of a still larger asymmetric urn. In ¡°I¡¯m Looking At You,¡± Park¡¯s light touch is personified in his humorous appropriation of the bottle caps, creating a humane rather than a didactic statement. For Park, the relationship of the individual to the mass is not confrontational, but rather inclusive and humbling. ¡°We are all specks on the earth,¡± says Park, ¡°and the earth is a speck in the universe. Eung Ho Park has exhibited at the Drawing Center in New York City, at Long Island University and the Queens Museum of Art. Park has created a permanent sculpture for PS 270 in Queens, New York. Eung Ho Park was born in Woonchun, South Korea and he received his BFA from the Pratt Institute. He lives in Jackson Heights Queens and maintains a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For further information, contact Sabina Lee at 323-935-9279 5365 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036, info@sabinaleegallery.com |