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Artist's Lecture: 8:30-9:30am, October 8, 2015
UNT Business Leadership Building room 170
1307
W Highland St, Denton, TX 76201
The Printmaking Area and The College of Visual Arts and Design at The University of North Texas is pleased to welcome visiting Artist Sang-Mi Yoo. Sang-Mi Yoo will present a lecture on her work exploring idea of the home through her installations that utilize various media and processes. Ms. Yoo will also hold a limited number of critiques for printmaking graduate students.
Information
Contact: Andrew DeCaen, Printmaking
Area Coordinator at decaen@unt.edu
Artist
Statement
Sang-Mi Yoo’s current project focuses on the
ideal home through prints, lasercut wool felts and their three-dimensional
conversions. The reality of finding ideal home is explored through American
norms. Her work is based on her childhood memories from Korea and everyday
encounters of standardized residential buildings, including her West Texas
living experience. Like an animal’s camouflage, this homogeneity
provided her with a means to blend into her neighborhood. Her installations of
large-format prints and lasercuts are based upon patterns created from
cookie-cutter homes found in Lubbock, Houston and other global locations. The rows
of houses and floorplans become abstract constructs subject to gravity and
shadow play surrounding the materials, questioning whether the ideal home is a
tangible subject or an illusion.
Bio
Korean-born artist, Sang-Mi Yoo
is an Associate Professor of Art at Texas Tech University, and received an MFA
in printmaking from The Ohio State University and a BFA in painting from Seoul
National University. Her creative activity features the first Wolhee Choe
Memorial Award as part of 2014 AHL Foundation's Visual Arts Competition
(New York, NY), the 2012 Seacourt Print Workshop Artist-in-Residence (Bangor,
Northern Ireland), a 2010 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, the 2009 Springfield
Art Museum Purchase Award, exhibitions at the Museum of Printing History in
Houston, the Moonshin Museum (Seoul, Korea), the Gyeongnam International Art Festival (Changwon, Korea) and
the 2008 Pacific Rim International Print
Exhibition (Christchurch, New Zealand), and museum collections at
the Art Bank at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea, the
Springfield Art Museum and The Museum of Texas Tech University, among others.
She has also curated exhibitions including Convergence:
Korean Prints Now, and organized collaborative events and
conference panels.
