December 22, 2024

EagleEye

A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff

Marginalized Histories of Korean Women Opens in Ridderhof Martin Gallery Oct. 24

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The Department of Art and Art History and UMW Galleries present the opening exhibition of Marginalized Histories of Korean Women Thursday, Oct. 24 from 5-7 p.m. in Ridderhof Martin Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Suzie Kim, Assistant Professor of Art History, and features the work of Youngjoo Cho, Dohee Kim, Sumita Kim, and Wonju Seo. The Marginalized History of Korean Women symposium will be held the following day, Oct. 25. Please see the UMW Marginalized Histories of Korean Women Exhibition and Symposium Flyer for more information.

Entwined within the recent political history of Korea—Japanese colonial period (1910–45), liberation from it, the division of the Korean peninsula into north and south at the end of World War II, the Korean War (1950–53), the New Village Movement by the former president Park Chung Hee in the 1970s, the Gwangju Uprising (1980), and the democratization of the south in the 1980s—are Korean women whose histories have been often ignored or marginalized for contradicting conventional values of marriage and family, and the messages of political regimes. It is possible to expose the silenced histories of women in a society with deep roots in traditional Confucian ethics if we follow Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s vision of decolonizing feminism and acknowledge the complexities that characterize the lives of women in countries other than the West. The focus of the exhibition will be on accounts of Korean women in daily life, in fluid historical conjunctions, and in latent opposition to collectivism.

This exhibition presents four contemporary Korean artists, Youngjoo Cho, Dohee Kim, Sumita Kim, and Wonju Seo. Their art epitomizes the intersection of personal and collective histories of Korean women, and illustrates contemporaneous conversations against militarism, patriarchy, and nationalism.

Japanese Lantern-Making Workshop at Sculpture Studio

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It’s been an exciting and creative week in the UMW Sculpture Studio, where community members and students have been working together to learn the process of traditional Japanese lantern making. They’ve been collaborating on a paper sculpture that is about 9 feet tall and 18 feet long. The workshop participants range in age from 8 to 83 years old.

summerworkshopThe workshop is being taught by Brooklyn artist George Ferrandi. George is the director of Wayfarers Studio Program and Gallery in Bushwick, and was the founding member of the touring performance project titled “Cloud Seeding: Circus of the Performative Object.” She also teaches Sculpture and Performance Art at Pratt Institute, at Virginia Commonwealth University and at the Rhode Island School of Design. George also runs a small business specializing in the restoration of statues of saints for churches.

For more information about this artist, visit her website at http://www.jumpstar.love/about.

UMW Galleries Exhibitions

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UMW Galleries will launch the 2010-2011 season with two new shows that open on Friday, September 3 and run through Friday, October 8. On Thursday, Sept. 2, don’t miss the joint opening reception that will take place in both galleries from 5 to 7 p.m.

“Study for a Perfect Day” will take place in the duPont Gallery.  Working with local businesses and thrift stores to secure recycled materials, Carole Garmon has created a body of work that speaks to notions of artifice and artifact. Using the landscape as her backdrop, her “vistas” address the art historical through references to the sublime aesthetic; the political with a nod to manifest destiny; and contemporary western culture through a DIY approach to her building methods.

Carole Garmon,  professor of art, holds an MFA (1996) and a BFA (1993) in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University.  She has taught at UMW since 1998 and is a recipient of UMW’s Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award.  Garmon’s research acknowledgements include the accessioning of select images and research materials on Rembrandt into the Rijks Museum Library in Amsterdam, Holland and participating in a BBC 2 documentary on Rembrandt’s painting, The Night Watch.  The segment is part of the larger series, The Private Life of the Masterpiece.  She was one of two Americans chosen to participate in the international exhibition, Inspired By Rembrandt, commemorating Rembrandt’s 400th birthday.  In addition to numerous private collections, her work has been exhibited at the Main Art Gallery and 1708 Gallery in Richmond, the WPA/Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., the Arlington Arts Center, as well as Lima, Peru and Berlin, Germany.

“REPEAT: Exploring Pattern and Texture” will take place in the Ridderhof Martin Gallery.  It will feature the work of seven artists from Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Come see how these artists explore pattern and texture using a broad range of techniques and a variety of media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, textiles, and mixed media.

Admission to the University of Mary Washington Galleries is free.  The UMW Galleries is located on the University of Mary Washington campus at 1301 College Avenue and is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 to 4 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 pm.

For directions and more information, call (540) 654-1013 or visit the gallery website at www.galleries.umw.edu.