Wednesday, December 11, 2013


The other day, me and my Ecomm class went down to JCCC to visit their museum. It was ok i guess. Im not a big sculpture fan. There was some cool stuff there though. My favorite things were the pottery and the big dog tag dress. The dog tag dress was done by Do Ho Suh. He was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1962. After earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University, and fulfilling his term of mandatory service in the South Korean military, Suh relocated to the United States to continue his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University.Suh leads an itinerant life, hopping from his family home in Seoul (where his father is a major influence in Korean traditional painting) to his working life in New York. Migration, both spatial and psychological, has been one of Suh's themes, manifested through biographical narrative and emotionally inflected architecture. Best known for his intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Suh's work draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity.

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  1. Please note the first line of your previous blog. It is absolutely not OK to copy and paste without permission or due credit. I also believe this is violation of every school I know of....

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