Virtual K-Artist Talk Series - IA&A at Hillyer
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Date and Time for this Past Event
- Fri, May 8, 2020 - Fri, Jun 19, 2020
Details
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Hillyer has teamed up with the Korean Cultural Center in Washington, DC to present a six-week series of virtual artist talks and studio visits with Korean and Korean-American artists. The artists will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look into their art practice and studios.
Have a question for the artists? Viewers can post questions in the comments section of the videos on our Facebook or Instagram and the artists will answer daily over the course of the following week.
Nara Park
Friday, May 8th @ 6pm – Facebook LIVE with Q&A
About the Artist
Nara Park is a sculptor and installation artist based in Washington, DC. She holds a BFA in General Fine Arts and an MFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she received the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture Center and Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship. She is a recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, the Young Artist Award from the Trawick Foundation, and the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship. Park’s work has been on exhibit at numerous venues including Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, The Phillips Collection, Grounds for Sculpture, Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Her work has been featured in Sculpture magazine, The Washington Post, and Artnet News. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, as well as The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
Artist Statement
My work investigates our relationship to the landscape we inhabit and the imprint we leave in it when we are gone. I often use false materials such as stone-textured paint or Formica to create three-dimensional works. This trompe l’oeil effect alludes to sacred places that can range from graves to natural rock formations. My use of these materials is my way of connecting the transient nature of life to our surface-oriented and disposable culture. Stone in my work implies memorialization, stability and permanence. My newest body of work, Presence, features free-standing sculptures composed of painted Styrofoam beads imitating grains of sand. The tiny spheres form a mass evoking markers or monuments. I explore how monuments and sculptures mark space, time, and place. The accumulation of beads in multiple colors creates what appears to be disintegrating surfaces or the build-up of lichen, mold, or coral. The illusion of organic growth suggests the vulnerability of our physical perceptions. It also reminds us that there is a lifespan in any materialization whether it’s manmade or natural.
