Traces: 28 days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio
Kyoung Eun Kang
May 27-July 31, 2022
Artist Reception: Saturday, June 25th | 5-7PM
In this thought-provoking solo exhibition, TRACES: 28 Days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio, artist Kyoung eun Kang uses video, photographs, watercolor drawings, and installation to explores one’s studio practice as an everyday ritual. One that is contemplative, devotional, playful, and transformative. This exhibition also provides a unique opportunity to take a closer look at objects from Elizabeth Murray’s barn studio.
Collar Works is proud to present this thought-provoking solo exhibition, TRACES: 28 days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio by artist Kyoung eun Kang. Kang uses video, photographs, watercolor drawings, and installation to explores one’s studio practice as an everyday ritual. One that is contemplative, devotional, playful, and transformative. This exhibition also provides a unique opportunity to take a closer look at Elizabeth Murray’s barn studio.
Artist’s Statement:
The project presented is a multimedia installation focused on a durational performance in response to Elizabeth Murray’s studio. The exhibition includes a video shown in three segments, photographs, watercolor drawings, and displayed objects that belonged to Elizabeth Murray. Using my body as a medium to revive the Murray studio, I gradually developed a series of actions and movements repeated over the course of a given day. I set up my camera in a fixed position in the middle of the studio and recorded my daily practice for 28 days. I observed and examined the space, animated her objects through interaction, and created a series of dance movements and watercolor drawings that mirrored the marks on the walls. This exhibition presents a 5 hour-long video that captures the full scope of my daily performance, a series of photographs depicting discrete choreographic gestures from the durational, time-based work, watercolor drawings replicating marks in Murray’s studio, as well several of Murray’s studio objects—such as a ladder, palettes, door and painting tools—which I used as props in my movements. TRACES: 28 days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio is a new body of work conceived during my 2019 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works.
Kyoung eun Kang is a New York-based artist born in South Korea. She received a BFA and MFA in painting from Hong-ik University in Seoul, South Korea, and an MFA from Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, NY.
She works in a wide range of mediums –from live performance to video, painting, photography, installation, text, and sound pieces. Her work explores the geographical and cultural identity and universal human behavior such as affection and attachment.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including NURTUREart, NY; BRIC Project Room, NY; Soho 20 Project Room, NY; Here Arts Center, NY; A.I.R Gallery, NY; The Korean Cultural Center, Washington, D.C; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at The University of Western Australia, Australia; Museum of Imperial City, China, and the National Museum of Modern Art, South Korea.
Kang has participated in residencies at Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, NY; I-Park Foundation, CT; ChaNorth, NY: NARS Foundation, NY; Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program, NY; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, NE; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME. She is a recipient of fellowships at New York Foundation for the Arts, NY, BRIC Media Arts, NY, and A.I.R artist fellowship, NY.