Lull

by Tai Hwa Goh

chashama 266 Gallery
266 West 37th Street (between 7th& 8th Avenues)
December 17 - 31, 2011

Opening: December 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
representation of the human body, its life events a 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