Lull

Tai Hwa Goh
Chashama 266 Gallery
266 West 37th Street (between 7th& 8th Avenues)
Dec 17, 2011 - Dec. 31, 2011

Opening: Dec.17, 4-7pm

Viewing Hours: 10am-6pm

Tai Hwa Goh is interested in the irony and contrast between fragility
of prints on paper and concrete architectural element as vulnerable
human being and monumental layers of his history. Window, an elements
of architecture characteristic of transparency and reflection,
exemplify the notions of fragility and immateriality. It speaks of the
strength of the material’s architectural, structural and industrial,
at once delicate shell and protective casing. Chashama’s windows
allows her work to display the paradox between these two aspects;
feeble but strong, isolated but crossed-over.

Goh’s hand waxed prints are created using traditional printmaking
techniques mounted onto walls, floor, ceiling, and windows. (The
hand-waxing process gives the prints transparency so images can be
viewed from outside and inside of the windows). Through the process of
folding, cutting, flipping and overlapping the prints, the images are
gradually transformed and grow into the space, questioning the concept
of print reproduction. Its source is two-dimensional yet breaks out
into three-dimensional sculptural existence. Her irregular, unfixed,
mutable, and continuous installation opens the possibility of multiple
interpretations about human beings and art, crossing boundary between
two and three-dimensionality.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Tai Hwa Goh primarily works with printmaking and
paper installation. She spent her childhood years through college in
Seoul.

Goh received a MFA degree at the University of Maryland in 2004
specializing in printmaking and sculpture. She also received another
MFA in printmaking at Seoul National University in Korea back in 2000.
Goh had over 10 solo exhibitions and numerous group shows at leading
galleries, such as IPCNY (NY), Carriage House (Islip Museum, NY),
Flashpoint Gallery (DC), Gallery Aferro(NJ), A.I.R Gallery(NY),
Arlington Arts Center (VA), School33 (MD), Space Gallery (Cleveland,
OH), and the Consular Office at Embassy of Korea (DC and NY). She was
awarded many grants and residencies from Evergreen Museum & Library
(MD), Vermont Studio Center (NY), Lower East Side Print Shop (NY), DC
Commissions on the Arts Humanities and Prince George's Art Council
(MD). Her works are included in the collection of the DC City Hall,
Lower East Side Print Shop and University of Maryland. Goh creates
artwork in which an innovative integrated medium of printmaking is put
together to create a new art form that is symbolic and physical. Its
source is two- dimensional yet it breaks out into a three dimensional
sculptural existence. Layering printed Korean paper (Soon-ji) act as a
representational of the human body, life events and its traced
experience. The waxed paper creates a delicate translucency allowing
through vibration of imagery.

This exhibit is supported in part by an award from the National
Endowment for the Arts


Contact: 201-655-9343/ gorewa@hotmail.com/ www.taihwagoh.com