Exhibitions
Opening reception: January 23 2010
Gyun Hur: repose
15” x 22”, 5 color silkscreen, Limited edition print (25), available through gallery
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Get This! Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition, r e p o s e by Gyun Hur. This will be Atlanta-based artist Gyun Hur’s first solo exhibition with Get This! Gallery.
As an extension of the artist’s previous show A Requiem in the Garden, exhibited at Gallery Stokes in 2009, Hur constructs a poignant, visual landscape with layers of hand-shredded silk flowers on an ambitious scale. Collected silk flowers are carefully disassembled and hand-shredded by the artist and a community of people around her. The pattern produced by this labor-intensive installation references the artist’s mother’s wedding blanket, beckoning memories of the past and inherent ephemeral comfort. The artist’s methodical destruction and reassembly of the silk flowers creates an introspective site, transforming the gallery into a place where internal memories lie in repose.
The artist examines her personal narratives of loss, memory, and place through a construction of visual and psychological space. The ritualized processes of choosing, collecting, cutting, and arranging the silk flowers become something larger, encompassing a private and emotional context. The installation process is itself a performance, which can be viewed from outside the gallery window during the week before the opening date (January 18–22). During the exhibition the installation, including the wall treatments and floor patterns will be viewable from eleven feet above the gallery floor through an observation window cut in the gallery’s wall.
Gyun Hur was born in Taegu, Korea and moved to the United States at the age of thirteen. Gyun received an MFA in Sculpture from Savannah College of Art and Design and a BFA in Painting from the University of Georgia. The artist has performed and exhibited both locally and nationally. She recently won the Pilchuck Glass School Sosin Award and completed the Vermont Residency with Full Fellowship as well as the New York City Studio Residency through Elizabeth’s Foundation for the Arts.
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The exhibition r e p o s e was possible with the generous support from a community of family and friends. Gyun Hur and Get This! would like to thank:
Heesoo Goh, Ting Ying Han, Young Ae Hahn, Al Harris, Joi Huang, Mike Hur, Soon-Ok Hur, Woo Hur, Jamie Liles, Sean Ludwig, Jiovnni Tallington, Yi-Shin Tzeng, Tiffany Sinnott, Staci Stone, Yukari Umekawa, Lois Lee Yoon, James Yoon, Alice S. Noh, and Grey Won.