Awareness #4 - Li Xinmo5/9/2019 Li Xinmo was born in Yilan County in the Heilongjiang Province in 1976. She received her master's degree from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2008 and is now based in Beijing. She works in performance, painting, video, photography, and installations. She has exhibited in Juhua Space, Shanghai (solo exhibition) and Shandong Museum, Shandong (major exhibition) in 2007. In 2008, she exhibited at the Art Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts for her graduation exhibition, the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (major exhibition of young artists), Beijing Sunshine Art Gallery, Yu Gallery, Yuanfen Gallery, and the Art Museum of China. In 2009, her work was shown in the Art Next Gallery in New York, the China Central Palace, the Huantie Time Art Museum, the Xi'an Art Museum, and a Collaboration - Contemporary Works of Video and Performance Art Exhibition in Beijing. In 2010, she showed at the Songzhuang Art Center and the Wenjin International Gallery. In 2011, she had a solo exhibition at Tense Space and a performance art exhibition at the Dingshun Contemporary Art Space. In 2012, she went to Europe and exhibited works in Macro in Rome and at the Louvre. She also showed at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. In 2013, she displayed works at the National Museums of World Culture in Gothenburg, Sweden and Haian 523 in the Jiangsu Province in China. In 2014, she exhibited in the Frauen Museum in Germany, the University of Toronto Art Centre, the Xian Contemporary Museum again, the Lia Contemporary Art space, and the "Guangzhou Live 5 international action art event." In 2015, she exhibited at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, the Kaiser and Cream Art District in Wiesbaden, the Research House for Asian Art in Chicago, the One-way Space in Beijing, the Art Exhibition organized by the UN Theme Group on Gender at the Austrian Embassy, and the Tree Gallery in Beijing. In 2016, she worked with the Shijiazhuang museum, the Goethe Institute, Beijing Normal University, the Minsheng Museum, and the Hanfen Building. In 2017, she exhibited at the Tree Gallery again, the "Gan and Gan Meibei International Performance Festival," the "Prague China and Europe International Biennale," the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery in New York, the "Virtual Workshop," and UCCA. In 2018, she exhibited at the Inswich Museums in the UK, The Red Gate Gallery, the Agriculture Exhibition Center, the "Meibei International Festival of Performing Arts," the Yan Huang Art Museum, the Meixi Art Space, the Mercedes Benz Center, and the East Asian Museum. Li Xinmo's website features many, many pages full of her artwork. She has six pages on her website: Home, About, Works, Exhibitions, Articles, and Contact. Her about page has her CV and a comprehensive list of all the places she has exhibited in. Her works page is divided into her many disciplines: performance, installation, photography, painting, and video art. Each page features examples of her art work (the performance art is documented in photographs). Her exhibitions page is a list of her exhibitions and information/images/videos on each. The articles page revolves around articles written about Li Xinmo and includes the transcripts of these essays in full. The contact page is a standard website communication contact page.
Xinmo is interesting to me because of how varied and diverse her body of work is. She targets issues that I care about like femininity and feminism, and she has received critical acclaim for the power of her artwork. I want to be as multifaceted as her and have such a strong and deep connection to and vision of her creativity and how she wishes to express such complicated topics as the role of women in society.
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Awareness Post #3 - Seonna Hong3/21/2019 Seonna Hong graduated from California State University Long Beach in 1996. In 2004, she won the Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Production Design for My Life as a Teenage Robot, Nickelodeon. She also featured in an issue of "Uneasy Art" (the Giant Robot Issue #38) by Eric Nakamura and a book called Animus by Baby Tattoo Publishing. From 2006-2007, she had a solo exhibition in the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, TN called "SubUrban Series." In 2006, she was also the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. In 2007, she featured in SaraJane Sluke's "Sirens of the Surreal, Swindle Issue #10" and Roger Gastman's "Wife, Mother, Artist and Solid Gold Dancer? Juxtapoz Issue #73." She had another solo exhibition in 2007 called "Our Endless Numbered Days" at the 5BE Gallery in New York, NY. In 2008, Hong had a solo exhibition called "Viscery Loves Company" in the KaiKai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, her work was in group exhibitions at the Jonathan Levine Gallery (Beach Blanket Bingo), the Sloan Fine Art Gallery (+2 Summer Group Show, I Know What You're Thinking), the GRSF (15 Year Anniversary Show), and the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts (Brood Work). She also exhibited in galleries like the GR2 Gallery, the Portsmouth Museum of Art, the Kaikai Kiki Gallery, the Bo Lee Gallery, the LeBasse Projects, the Breeze Block Gallery, the Grand Central Art Center, the Hurley Gallery, Arena 1, THIS Los Angeles, Good Eye Gallery, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Grumpy Bert, Flower Pepper Gallery, KP Projects, Flood Gallery, Nahcotta Gallery, 101/Exhibit, Heron Gallery, Castelli Art Space, and Think Tank Gallery. In 2012, she had another solo show at LeBasse Projects in Culver City, CA called "Persistence of Vision." In 2015, she exhibited her work at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, NY in a solo show called "If You Lived Here I'd Be Home by Now." In 2016, she worked with the Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, CA on a solo show called "In our Nature," and they continued their collaboration in 2018 with her other solo show titled "Things Will Get Better." Her website is very minimalistic and the home page is a page full of her works her Bio/CV is linked next to her shop, news, and contact pages. Her Bio/CV is organized by bullet points and simplistic. She linked her instagram in the footer of each page and her email on her contact page. She also allows you to sign up for a newsletter. Her current sales are facilitated by Hashimoto Contemporary Gallery. I love Hong's work for its minimalistic but vibrant colors. The scenes are always mysterious yet tranquil. Her contrast of broad, bright strokes with the small people is particularly appealing to me. I love the colors she uses and the techniques she uses to achieve texture in her works. Her art is quietly astounding for its exertion of power in the softest way possible. Awareness #2 - Catherine Graffam1/24/2019 Catherine Graffam is an artist, curator, and educator who is based in the Greater Boston Area. She received her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She specializes in self portraits with oil paint documenting her emotions and her experience as a queer transgender woman. Her work is almost entirely figurative with a motif of portraiture. She has exhibited her work in museums and galleries across the world and was named one of 2017's "Remarkable Women" by NH Magazine. She is currently an Exhibitions Manager at Gallery 263 in Cambridge MA and adjunct faculty at Lasell College, New Art Center, and New Hampshire Institute of Art. She has had three solo exhibitions: Identity Online (Montreal, Rats 9, 2014), Trans-Pose (Concord, McGowan Fine Art, 2016), and Cowboy Take Me Away (San Antonio, Mantle Art Space, 2019). She has exhibited her work in the 11th Annual Minumental Exhibition, Exploring Gender, Reflections: Self Portrait Show, Annual Student Exhibition, Mangitude 7, Minis on Main, 2nd Annual Self Portrait Show, Queer, 1st Annual Figure/Portrait Competition, 12th Annual Minumental Exhibition, Art PM, Who Might I Be?, Small Works Exhibition, 2nd Annual Figure/Portrait Competition, We're Here: A Queer Exhibition, Art and Bloom, Trans/Draw, You think It's ________ But It's Really _________, Gender Unbound, The Other, 3rd Annual Self Portrait Show, Plenty, Inertia, Gender Unbound Art Festival, Right Side Out, TDOV, and Teenaged. She has exhibited numerous times at Verge Gallery in Manchester NH and the NHIA in Manchester NH. She has been published in magazines like NH Magazine, Yes! Magazine, Everyday Feminism, The Jealous Curator, the Huffington Post, The Hippo, Supersonic Art, Feministing, Mineral Magazine, and Artful Undress. She is represented by McGowan Fine Art in Concord NH and 13FOREST in Arlington MA. Her website is organized with her paintings organized by theme and series on the side and three thumbnails of some of her works on the side. She features her instagram, twitter, and email and a place to sign up for her newsletters on the left bar. She also sells prints and originals on her website.
I love her work for the way she manipulates realism in such brushy ways. She is not afraid of adding streaky lines to her beautifully rendered portraits, and I respect her for that. I also love the colors she uses and the power behind her strokes. They are frenetic but purposeful, and she has a highly developed concept and content. I want to pursue portraiture the way she has with its powerful lines, strong colors, and interesting compositions. 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. Awareness #8 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec5/28/2018 This post has been a long time coming. Toulouse-Lautrec is, in my eyes, one of the best artists to ever exist. You could call him my favorite artist. Toulouse-Laturec lived from 1864 - 1901 and worked as a painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator of the vibrant yet sad theatrical life in Paris. He documented the rise of nightlife culture in the City of Lights in a personal manner, showing the lives of performers and prostitutes from a humanistic perspective. One of my favorite works by Lautrec is "The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge." There are many versions of this work but my absolute favorites are the prints. I love the vibrant colors that Lautrec used and the way he depicted the Englishman as a blocked out gray form. The primary color scheme is one of my favorites and Toulouse employs it excellently in the background of this piece. Toulouse relies heavily on contour lines which I am definitely a fan of and the way he was able to break down the form of the people in the print with just a few strokes is absolutely phenomenal in my opinion. My personal favorite is the eyes of the first woman to the left of the Englishman with the small eyes. Her expression is so expressive, and, when I saw it in person, I thought it was very amusing. The work depicts an Englishman seemingly coming on to a couple Moulin Rouge girls. He has an almost lecherous expression and the women seem slightly abhorred and uncomfortable. Probably the only things I dislike about this peace is the colors used on the dress of the woman to the far left. The spotty green and black accents, although potentially accurate to real life, just do not vibe with the overall colors of this peace. I understand that making her dress a vibrant color would have overpowered the other colors, but I feel that the semi-vomit color green was not the best choice. Similarly, I dislike the way Toulouse tried to capture the fluffy headband that the orange-haired lady was wearing. It seems very out of place in the way it is placed on her head and how he tried to make it seem fluffy and amorphous. I hope to one day achieve Toulouse's mastery in contour lines and color usage. The way he is able to capture forms so quickly and easily is something that I greatly admire. I want to use more of the primary color scheme in my work as I absolutely adore the look of it. Furthermore, coloring a person all one color is such a bold move and simultaneously a move that I want to master. It simplified the Englishman's role in the print, and I will definitely keep this method in mind in my future works. To conclude, I want to experiment more with printmaking as many of my favorite artists were printmakers and mass producing an artwork and being able to change the colors as one pleases greatly pleases me. author.jacqueline. she/her. senior. virginia, usa. art v. archives.
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