continuum: four artists

Barbara Hatfield - Sophie Jeehyun Kim  -
Yoon Jee Nam  - Anne Thulin

on view: November 9 - December 2, 2007
Opening reception: Saturday, November 10, 2007, 4-7pm

Four New York artists whose early sensibilities were shaped by childhoods very much removed from New York, are exhibiting their work together. They range from emerging artists, Sophie Jehyun Kim and Yoon Jee Nam, to mid-career artists Barbara Hatfield and Anne Thulin. and their works span and incorporate a variety of media.  

Barbara Hatfield’s installation is, in part, a study in materials. Beeswax and pigment, an amazing wasp’s nest, found in a friends’s attic in Hatfield’s native North Dakota, street detritus and shiny new copper are among the elements chosen. Intimate, open and with a bit of humor the work invites the viewer to see the extraordinary in the everyday and in the ordinary.  

Swedish-born artist Anne Thulin encapsulats rolled and folded newspaper in wax, and transforms it into powerful objects that are both familiar and strange.  They are an odd memory quest for a remote time when the newsprint was current. Her most recent work, inflating and deflating objects, fill the gallery space with the movement of breathing.  

After eight years of city living in New York Sophie Jeehyun Kim became obsessed by images of her grandmother’s country house outside Seoul, where she spent most of her childhood. She began painting landscapes, using oil and gouache paints share some of the qualities of Japanese animation.  

Korean-born Yoon Jee Nam is a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts. Her installation of tall panels of woven paper, carefully water-colored before processing, outline a magical space in the gallery, and show a young artist’s pleasure in time-intensive and beautiful work. 

Barbara Hatfield solo exhibitions include Essential Marks at the North Dakota Museum of Art and half/tai at LaMama Gallery in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Kentler International Drawing Space, Sculpture Center, Long Island University, and NYU Small Works among others. Her work is included in the registry at the Drawing Center, New York 

Anne Thulin most recently showed her work in a solo exhibition at the Konsthall in Lund, Sweden. She participated in Edward Albee’s Nine Artists exhibition at the Alphirst Gallery in New York, at  Socrates Sculpture Park, at Construction and Process in Llodz, Poland, and has shown at the Rosa Esman Gallery in New York 

Sophie Kim has been presented by the Salena Gallery at Long Island University and the Korea Gallery in New York  and at the Trian Gallery in Seoul. 

Yoon Jee Nam’s work was included in the MFA Road Show, U.S. Summer tour 2007. 

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

acknowledgments:

This exhibition is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Greenwall Foundation.