Nov
18
to Jan 12

Pinions

Join me for the opening reception of the two-person show, ‘Pinions’ on Friday, November 18th from 5-8 PM at the Chicago Artists Coalition.

“Pinion refers to a binding gear and the outer edges of bird feathers. With this meaning in mind, Pinions is a duo exhibition by Jessica Ferrer and Yoonshin Park that considers the ways in which connectedness is constructed and margins materialized. Using book-objects, paper weavings, and abstraction, these artists assemble visual systems and create conditions for potentials through haptics and activations. How does one become aware and work with edges and bindings? How can somatic, sensorial, and meditative practices mark and measure these events? How does weaving and book-making translate these notions into tactile, non-static, and beautiful art objects and phenomenological events?” - John H. Guevara, Curator

Chicago Artists Coalition

2130 W. Fulton Street

Chicago IL 60612

The exhibition will run from November 18th through January 12th.

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Sep
30
to Nov 11

Hatch Residency Survey Exhibition

Please join me for the opening reception of the Hatch Residency Survey Exhibition happening on September 30th from 5 - 8pm. Happy to share a preview of my new project and would love to hear what you think!

Chicago Artists Coalition

2130 W. Fulton Street

Chicago IL 60612

The exhibition will run from September 30th through November 10th.

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Jul
8
to Aug 26

Ten x Ten 2020/2 Exhibition

Ten x Ten is a dialogue between visual artists and musicians exploring visual and auditory interaction. By challenging artists to conceptualize their work across media, Ten x Ten asks participants to stretch and expand their creative process. Through producing a limited edition compilation and public presentation of the resulting artworks, Ten x Ten documents, celebrates, and promotes Chicago’s artistic community. A suite of an art book, 12″ vinyl record, and digital download are available for pre-sale, and individual prints are available as well.

Reception: July 8, 6-10pm, featuring the ten screen prints and a listening station to hear the music

Location:

Chicago Art Department

1926 South Halsted Street Chicago, IL

60608 United States

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Jan
8
to Feb 26

Beverly Arts Center - "In/Visible"

In/Visible - Yoonshin Park

Jan 8 – Feb 26, 2022

A new exhibit of works by artist Yoonshin Park in the Simmerling Gallery

“The Finding Space and Tied series examine and embrace the condition of uncertainty and the relationship of time and space. I want to bind the two series with ambiguity and ephemerality of being and making process.”

– Yoonshin Park, 2021

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Dec
10
to Jan 7

Monira Foundation - In Good Company

The Monira Foundation is pleased to partner with Mana Contemporary Chicago to present a group exhibition of works by current Mana Contemporary Chicago residents from December 10 – January 7, 2022. As an extension of our Open House Chicago, In Good Company presents recent works of artists in residence, hoping to open up conversation with the viewers regarding their practice and what it means to produce.

Opening reception for the artists in will be held December 10th from 6-8pm.

The gallery will be open to the public starting from December 13th, Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

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Nov
30
to Dec 5

Art Miami 2021: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery

ART MIAMI
Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
Booth #AM138

November 30 - December 5, 2021

“We are pleased to announce our annual participation in Art Miami, America’s foremost contemporary and modern art fair, opening on Tuesday, November 30th with a VIP Preview evening with public days beginning Wednesday, December 1st and running through Sunday, December 5th.”

- Zolla/Lieberman Gallery

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Sep
25
6:45 PM18:45

Ten x Ten 2020/2: Tactile | Spaces

Join us for the second concert and art exhibition in the Ten x Ten 2020/2 series to hear and see world premiers of musical compositions and screen prints.

For the second iteration of Ten x Ten 2020, composers Ben LaMar Gay, Jonathan Hannau, Andrew McManus, and Amy Wurtz will debut compositions for the orchestra created in collaboration with visual artists Carlos Matallana, Yoonshin Park, Michelle Nordmeyer, and Susan Giles, respectively. The corresponding screenprints from each visual artist will also be on view at the concert, encouraging viewers to draw connections between the varied, multimedia compositions being presented. In 2022, the music and screen prints presented at this concert will be released as part of an art book and 12" vinyl recording documenting all of the works produced for Ten x Ten 2022.

Ten x Ten 2020/2 is a collaborative commissioned production featuring 10 composers writing symphonic work in collaboration with 10 visual artists producing screen prints. Presenting organizations Chicago Composers Orchestra, Homeroom, and Spudnik Press paired 10 visual artists with a composer. Together, the visual artist and composer are asked to write corresponding components of a single work, though each print and each composition may stand on their own as an independent work of art. 

Music and visual art are not typically presented or discussed as complementary art forms. Ten x Ten challenges this notion, asking participants to explore the common ground between one another's work. Collaboration is at the core of this process-driven project. Often, language is a starting point for the pairs: what adjectives might describe their work; how might narratives be embedded in their work; how do they organize and structure their compositions? From these discussions, the pairs develop a work plan and dialogue that allows their creative processes to influence one another.

Through this multimedia partnership, composers and visual artists are challenged to consider new factors and possibilities for creating work. Each artist is encouraged to cultivate a deeper understanding of their own creative process by delving into another, very different artist's approach to creating. 

About the Works

Artist Michelle Nordmeyer made Work with Whatchya Got in pandemic lockdown, using found-objects to express the idea of “limitation”. Composer Andrew McManus responds with Feather, echoing the tactile quality of the visual objects, where a feather becomes a slowly blossoming, misshapen chorale for muted violins.

Exploring memory and gesture in recollections of the space of "home", artist Susan Giles and composer Amy Wurtz start from the same source: a recorded story capturing the gestures of a member of a choir for senior citizens with early-stage memory loss. Their dual works focus on how movement and sound connect to memory, place and emotion.

In Lapsus, artist Carlos Matallana and composer Ben LaMar Gay observe –instead of patterns– the spaces in between them: the repetitive divisions that interrupt a line, or define a beat's closing or opening. Their vehicle is the mouth: mouths that surround us among family and friends, each of them unique, either still or gesticulating.

In A River is Found on the Other End, composer Jonathan Hannau starts with a paper cadenza: shredding, tearing, and manipulating paper; until a solitary note finds its voice and a lush melody guides a lone traveler to the end of a river. Artist Yoonshin Park translates the soundscapes into colors, lines, and forms that resonate the dynamics and density of the sound.

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Sep
19
2:00 PM14:00

Cultivator - "Passing hours, space in between, I am breathing your air"

Solo Exhibition - Cultivator at Bray Grove Farm

Sunday, September 19, 2021, 2-5pm

Cultivator is pleased to present Yoonshin Park's solo exhibition, Passing hours, space in between, I am breathing your air, during Bray Grove Farm's Autumn Farm Day.

Please rsvp and join us on Sunday, September 19th from 2-5pm for art, conversation, light refreshments, and a tour of the farm. Bray Grove Farm is located 70 miles southwest of Chicago in Grundy County. To confirm your attendance and receive directions and parking information, kindly email.

Passing hours, space in between, I am breathing your air, is a site specific installation. Park's delicate paper pillows slowly breathe, with the light and shadows creating a eerie and timely mood of reflection. The artist describes previous installations of this sculpture as "transient, temporary, and vulnerable." With this exhibition during the current pandemic, the piece takes on additional meanings as the viewers are required to be masked and physically distanced in our farm equipment garage .

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Feb
20
7:00 PM19:00

Ten x Ten Sneak Peak 2

Join Chicago Composers, Orchestra, Homeroom, and Spudnik Press for a sneak peek of the next Ten x Ten!


See and hear the work of:
Katherine Lampert + Brian Baxter
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas + Luis Fernando Amaya
Yoonshin Park + Jonathan Hanau


In addition to hearing and seeing the works, the artists and composers will be in conversation discussing the collaborative process of Ten x Ten, followed by an audience Q&A with the artists and composers.

Access the livestream here:
chicagocomposersorchestra.org/events/ten-x-ten

Access January's stream here:
https://youtu.be/cY5ZTuOJWJI

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Jan
29
to Feb 28

A POROUS MEMBRANE - THE BODY AS SUBJECT

Date: Friday, 29 January 2021 | Time: 6.00 p.m. IST

Location: Prism - InKo Centre's virtual gallery.

The exhibition will be on view until Sunday, 28 February 2021.

While physical doors of gallery spaces remain closed, virtual doors have opened. We are delighted to announce the opening of Prism, InKo Centre's virtual gallery, with A Porous Membrane, a specially commissioned virtual exhibition. Examining the body in time and space seems a very relevant preoccupation especially in these challenging times. The pandemic has raised all kinds of questions regarding physical boundaries and what we define as ‘normal’. In a boundless exchange of creative ideas, this exhibition brings together an Indian, Korean, and American curatorial, artistic and technical team to examine the body as a subject from multiple perspectives.

Yeonhee Cheong, Yoonshin Park, and Rina Yoon have frequently explored the body as a subject throughout their art careers. These artists create work in the interstices of their immigrant identities, culture, nature, and materiality. They initiate discussions upon these powerfully relevant issues using many materials including hanji, the fragile yet tough traditional Korean paper. Comprising a virtual walkthrough, interviews with the artists, an essay by the curator, and a comprehensive list of relevant artworks, the exhibition invites you on a journey of introspection, reflection, and interrogation.

Featuring artworks by:

Yeonhee Cheong, Madison, Wisconsin-based visual artist and educator.

Yoonshin Park, Chicago-based multimedia artist, curator, and educator.

Rina Yoon, visual artist and Professor of Fine Art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in Wisconsin.

Curated by: Nirmal Raja, interdisciplinary artist and curator living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Videography: Michel Cros, 3D Mapping: Josh Hintz.

Exhibition commissioned by: InKo Centre (The Indo-Korean Cultural and Information Centre), India.

Experience Design by: Studio RDA, Chennai, India.

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Apr
1
to Apr 30

HYDE PARK ART CENTER - NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE 2020

This year, I am one of the many brilliant artists for commission for Hyde Park Art Center’s collaborative commissioning project.

Information & History:

Not Just Another Pretty Face is a collaborative commissioning project created by Hyde Park Art Center that supports the vibrancy of Chicago’s art economy by cultivating a broad group of patrons for the city’s artists. The Art Center arranges commissions between patrons and artists who create engaging, personalized works of art. The project, which occurs every several years, culminates with an unveiling event, an exhibition in several of Art Center’s galleries, and a catalog documenting the works and participant experiences.

2020 will mark the eighth iteration of Not Just Another Pretty Face, a special edition to support artists and the Art Center during the COVID-19 crisis. To start a conversation about commissioning or purchasing a unique work of art, fill out this interest form and someone will be in touch. You can also contact Maria Nelson at mnelson@hydeparkart.org or learn more about the project here.

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