Min Hyung - News & Exhibitions

The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss by aia staff 01/26/12

2012-01-27T15:27:00.000-08:00

With an ever-growing number of galleries scattered around New York, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where to begin? Here at A.i.A., we are always on the hunt for thought-provoking, clever and memorable shows that stand out in a crowded field. Below is a selection of shows our team of editors can't stop talking about.

This week we check out Thomas Scheibitz's blocky, collage-inspired compositions at Tanya Bonakdar, wander among Ross Knight's elegantly spare sculptures at Team, and discover Japanese model/curator Mie through the eyes of 35 artists, in a group portrait show at Freight + Volume.

"Mie: A Portrait by 35 Artists" at Freight + Volume, through Feb. 25
Having posed for some 10 paintings by Alex Katz, Mie Itwatsuki—a Japanese model and independent curator based in New York—collaborated with dealer Nick Lawrence to solicit portraits of her by an additional 34 artists, ranging from Robert Frank to DJ Spooky, from New York's David Humphrey to China's Lin Yilin and Korea's Min Hyung (who, in one of the show's most imaginative leaps, depicts Itwatsuki as a male Maasai warrior in Kenya).

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2012-01-26/the-lookout-01262012/

MIE: A PORTRAIT BY 35 ARTIST at FREIGHT + VOLUME Gallery

2012-01-19T10:09:00.000-08:00

Mie, Maasai Warrior, Min Hyung, 2011, oil on canvas on board, 48 x 60 inches

Press Release

Long a muse and subject of many contemporary masters in the art world, curator/model Mie Iwatsuki joins forces with gallerist/curator/artist Nick Lawrence, of Freight+Volume, to create a very special, intimate portrait show, aptly titled MIE: A Portrait By 35 Artists….

GROUP EXHIBITION
Opening: January 21, 6 to 8pm

MIE: A PORTRAIT BY 35 ARTISTS
Co-Curated by Mie Iwatsuki and Nick Lawrence

Exhibition Dates: January 21 - February 25, 2012

Freight + Volume Gallery
530 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

Beautiful review of Min Hyung featured in Idiom Magazine!

2011-07-26T15:11:00.000-07:00

Becoming Comrades
by LAILA PEDRO on JULY 8, 2011
Min Hyung, Dual Side of Female Hero, 2011. Via Freight+Volume
......Min Hyung’s big canvases feature an exhilarating diversity of texture and depth, so thick and swirly that they sometimes look edible, like saltwater taffy. Working in a mode we might call ‘epic whimsy’ she flings, swirls, dots, daubs and carefully etches varieties of paint ranging from sheer, gold-flecked Mattel pinks to dense, fat edges whose viscous darkness sucks light from the central figures. These, nevertheless, remain central. Ms. Hyung says she is inspired by Savage Beauty, the McQueen show currently drawing crowds at the Met, and in particular by McQueen’s assertion that “I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.” Even if this idea of empowering “women” doesn’t quite scan – either in Hyung’s paintings or McQueen’s creations – a kind of archetypal warrior woman is certainly in evidence. A blue-white feminine figure, her back turned to the viewer and holding a sword aloft is a recurring motif in two of the three paintings, in the third she holds a vaguely umbilical thread or rope reminiscent of Frida Kahlo. The influence of fashion, in particular of preparatory sketches for couture collections, is clear in the leggy, statuesque figures, scaled for spectacle, that double down on the McQueen-ish themes of facing/displacing, masking/revealing and directional dislocation. Discerning the fronts and backs of the bodies, despite their flat, declarative lines, is a challenge. The heraldic quality and mutable nature of these bodies adds medieval iconographies to an epic list of references that includes Bosch, Botticelli, Max Ernst, and Delacroix. Each of these operates on and around the body “real” and the body represented. Theorist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen:

Medieval bodies were caught between gravitational forces that pulled them at once toward a fantasy of impossible completeness….and at the same time confronted them with a daily spectacle of of the flesh dissolving into pieces, of bodies composed of metamorphic humoral fluids, of the corporeal as the scene for the staging of magic, holiness, perversity, wonder. Bodies were, quite simply, caught in a process of erupitve becoming.

Hyung’s work shares with medieval bestiaries this fantasy of impossible completeness, of the volcanically transformative potential of the body, even as the contemporary moment injects a mechanical, quasi-bionic quality. The flat figures at center, gilded and half-armored, work as a visual springboard for an entirely other network of bodies; each style relying on another to highlight its specific impact. At the bases of the canvases the eye endlessly recombines a careful mess of totemic, fragmented people and animals, reminiscent of illustration, to produce a menagerie of fantastic beings.
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http://idiommag.com/2011/07/becoming-comrades/

Min Hyung's work gets reviewed and video recorded by NYC based well known artcritic James Kalm. begins at 3 min 23 second (please wait a few seconds w

2011-07-26T15:00:00.000-07:00

This summer group show features works by a cast of female artists exploring the notion of displacement and return. Genevieve White, a Canadian performance artist slathers herself with cooking ingredients to create "impressions" of the "good wife" gone wild. Meridith Pingree's kinetic sculptures cleverly subvert objects used for decorative fashion accessories. Min Hyung paints large scale expressionistic scenes of mythical heroines using collage, spray paint and thick oil impasto. This posthumous exhibition of Korean artist Eunah Kim (1973-2010) features "Happy Lung" flags a poignant reference to the lung cancer that eventually took her life.
Migration at FRIEGHT+VOLUME
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This summer group show features works by a cast of female artists exploring the notion of displacement and return. Genevieve White, a Canadian performance ar...
Migration at FRIEGHT+VOLUME
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbK7Cqz7wPI

Min Hyung's work featured on the 22 Magazine blog, based in Brooklyn!

2011-07-26T14:54:00.000-07:00

MIN HYUNG: SEXAQUARIUM.
June 29, 2011, 7:00 am

The Fifth World: Sexaquarium
This particular sub-series are scenes from a place within The Fifth World called SEXAQUARIUM, which as theme explores the notions of sex and the isolated network of aquarium life. Big aquariums give feeling of a whole different reality, so vast, so foreign, so powerful, colourful and imaginative; where an abundance of continuous and simultaneous action is taking place. Aquariums are immediately captivating and draw the viewers in with its constant motion.

After food and survival, sex is the biggest motivation in life; sex is colourful, full of movement, vibrant and dynamic. Combining these two concepts I am able to make analogies of the intimate and omnipotent world of our secret sexual desire that may or may not lay dormant in our minds. My work is story based, although self directed it offers the viewer universality; where viewer can relate through visualization of an image and the thoughts, feelings, expectations subconscious and conscious, on our internal world.

http://the22magazine.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/min-hyung-sexaquarium/

Min Hyung discusses her painting Its Hailing Men, filmed by Travis Renyolds for the Calgary Herald

2011-07-26T14:40:00.000-07:00

http://www.skewgallery.com/hyung_video.htm

Min Hyung
Drew Anderson | Feb.26.2011 | comments 0
Most artists struggle for attention, spending years trying to get noticed. That’s not the case for Min Hyung. Before she had even graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, she was exhibiting and getting write-ups in the Globe and Mail. Her strange painted and sculpted creations, on now at the Art Gallery of Calgary, are bright works on dark matters. Until April 9. At the Art Gallery of Calgary. $2 to $5. artgallerycalgary.org.

Canadian Art - spring addition - 2010 _Agenda

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OCAD Anuual Report 2008/ 2009 Interview

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The Fifth World: An Introduction

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Upcoming Exhibition

The Fifth World: An Introduction
Min Hyung
April 1 – April 28th
Skew Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
(http://www.skewgallery.com/)

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Upcoming Show

Global Art Fair & Festival 2009
Where : Incheon - Songdo Convensia , Korea
Opening : Angust 7th, 6 p.m.

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Award Winners,2010
First Canadian Gallery, Toronto

Hearbreak Hotel
Freight + Volume Gallery, New York
July 16 - September 12, 2009

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BANK on ART is a project showcasing contemporary artworks on the display screen of a functional bank machine. Developed by artist and cu-rator Kelly McCray, this money-dispensing ATM features images producedby contemporary artists before and after each banking transaction.The objective isto engage and expose the general public to the work of artists through anexisting routine activity. Every Saterday in August , my painting is displaying on ATM machine at 952 Queen St. West, Toronto.

2009-07-16T09:45:00.000-07:00

Group Show in Freight + Volume Gallery In New York.

opening is July 16 th, 6-8 p.m.

The Show continues until Sept 12th, 2009

542 west 24th Atreet New York, NY USA 10011

http://www.freightandvolume.com/

2010 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Award Winners, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto Canada (upcoming)

2009 Best Student Painting Award: 48th Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

Upcoming Exhibitions

2009-05-25T13:37:00.000-07:00

2009 June 2nd, Daimler Financial Services has chosen Min Hyung, some faculty and alumni of OCAD Drawing and Painting Department together with select Graduates students of OCAD 2009, to exhibit together as a community with a professional catalogue to record the exhibition. The quality of works selected is very high and the resulting exhibition and catalogue will be amazing.

2009 July 10 to 12, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON.
- Student section, Blue North , Booth 802

2009 June 12 to 18, INCHEON Global cities Arts Grand Festival, Incheon, Korea

- Place : Incheon Art and Cultural Center
- Opening ceremony : June 12th (Friday) at 6 p.m.

"Uniformitarian Principle" reviewed in The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail

2009-01-12T17:45:00.000-08:00

Min Hyung’s recent exhibition at Angell Gallery received glowing reviews from both the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail.This is what the critics had to say:"Hyung is a remarkably gusty painter, liberally borrowing some of the best ideas around – note her fondness for architectural references – and not being in the least bit apologetic about it...."~Peter Goddard, The Toronto Star"Any artist who comes up with a killer painting title like Min Hyung's Blow Spaces Away from The Whirling Blades of the Fan is surely halfway home. And the wondrously berserk painting that proudly shoulders her kinetic title - a central part of Hyung's exhibition called Uniformitarian Principle - is a barn-burner."~ Gary Michael Dault, The Globe and MailAs well as the two reviews, Min’s work has been added to the FemmArte and Colart collections. FemmArte is a private investment club dedicated to building a prestigious collection of women's art, by predominantly Canadian female artists. The Colart collection based in Montreal, supports emerging Canadian artists.
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