Awareness #1 - October 11, 201810/11/2018 Jooyoung Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to Concord, New Hampshire in 1983 via adoption. She earned her BFA at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and her MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She studied abroad in Korea in 2009 and frequently returned over the summer for programs. Her website is www.jooyoungchoi.com. Upon entering her website, one can see her gallery and a menu consisting of about, paintings, video, sculpture + installation, available works, writings, and shop. She has displayed work in the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Anya Tish Gallery, the Front Gallery, the Brazos Gallery, the Project Row Houses, the Wing LUke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and the Lawndale Art Center. She has done residencies at the San Francisco Day School and the Wichita Riverfest. She has won three Stanfield Artist Awards, one Somerville Arts Council LCC Cultural Heritage Grant, one Ae Ran Won Portrait Project, one Idea Fund Grant, and one Artadia Award. She is a contemporary artist whose art focuses primarily on a fictional land of her creation called the Cosmic Womb. She uses all types of media to portray this land including painting, video, sculpture, animation, and music. The Cosmic Womb is around 6,732 miles large and is governed by Queen Kiok with the aid of her loyal servants Captain Spacia Tanno, Pleasure Vision, Plan-Genda, six humanoid Tuplets, Lady K, Aidee Three, Emo Flowers, Kun-Yook Six, Lydia "Nine" Fletcher, Haneul-Sek aka Nina Blue, and one Earthling from Concord, NH named C.S. Watson. She uses her own experiences to create characters and craft the Cosmic Womb. Her work is fantastical, eccentric, and brightly colored. She has many motifs in her works and repeats many characters. I am a big fan of the content and concept behind Choi's work. She gives the viewers an insight into her imagination and it's absolutely phenomenal in there. Her color schemes are cohesive and beautiful, and I adore how vibrant her work is. Furthermore, the fact that she has explored this content in many different types of art shows how versatile she is as an artist, and it's so cool to see the same idea translated across different medium. Perhaps one of her more well known works is "Live Free and Fly," which was painted in 2015. It is acrylic on stretched canvas and features all of the characteristics of her body of work. Looking at this work reminds me of a 1980s diner aesthetic smashed together with a 1950s commercial billboard. I love the dots and think that it makes the work very cohesive although it does give me a little trypophobia. My favorite aspect of this work is definitely the surrealist feel of it. She expertly weaves realistic painting with crazy patterns, characters, and ideas. "Live Free and Fly" is part of a greater body of work and they are bound together by similar motifs and color schemes. Perhaps the only negative attribute of this work in my opinion is the slightly transparent and smaller people going into the distance near the center of the work. Some of them are translucent, which I think makes the colors look a little murky in that area. Furthermore, the dots are a little overwhelming on the clothing of these characters.
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