02/22/2023
In the gallery now!
‘Perceiving Emptiness’ by internationally known artist, Jayoung Yoon, will be displayed in the Rose Lehrman Art Gallery at HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, from Feb. 20 – Mar. 17, 2023. The public is invited to a free lecture by the artist on Mar. 2, 2023, at 6 p.m. in room 214 of Whitaker Hall on HACC’s Harrisburg Campus. A reception will follow the lecture at the Rose Lehrman Art Gallery.
Jayoung Yoon is a New York based artist born in South Korea. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA; New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA; Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Marc Straus gallery, NYC; Here Arts Center, NYC; Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, and Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. She was awarded the AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Ora Schneider Regional Residency Grant, the BRIC Media Arts fellowship, and the Franklin Furnace Fund.
Yoon has attended residencies at MacDowell, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Millay Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing space, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Sculpture Space, Vermont Studio Center, I-Park, and Saltonstall Foundation, among others. Her work has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Hyperallergic, Artnet News, Surface Design Journal, and Fiber Art Now. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and her BFA from Hongik University in Seoul, Korea.
Her work draws upon the mind-matter phenomenon, exploring memory, perception and bodily sensations. The primary medium in her work is human hair, a material that is intimately corporeal, tactile, and focuses the viewer’s attention on the body. Hair is also an especially appropriate symbol of remembrance, since it doesn’t decay until long after death.
Each strand of her own hair is hand knotted or woven into forms to create intricate sculptures. The woven hair resembles fine nets or webs, allowing the viewer to see through the strands, giving the work a delicate transparency. Some of the forms represent ineffable thoughts, and memories, as seen in her video and performances. Also, she weaves strands of hair into weightless sculptures and installations that move as the result of airflow in the room and respond to the viewer’s movement. These small movements in space, on an intricate scale, shift the viewer’s awareness of their surroundings and introduce subtle perceptions that are often taken for granted.
In her two-dimensional works, individual strands of hair are placed within layers of acrylic medium and beeswax. Pared down to their most reductive elements, these works provide a space where structure fades away into the painted ether, representing thoughts dissolving or surfacing between states of the conscious and subconscious mind.
The gallery received state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information about the exhibit at HACC, please contact Shawn Williams at 717-780-2478 or [email protected].
Don’t miss this fabulous exhibition!
Shawn Williams
Art Coordinator
HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College
Mailing Address: One HACC Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17110
Office: Rose Lehrman Arts Building, Room A120F
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 717-780-2478
Internal Extension: 212478
Fax: 717-780-3281
