Platform

Showcasing Artist Residency “Platform” Artists and Visiting artists’ works

Resident Artists:
Jung-A Woo & Jaclyn Jacunski: Sotryline Transport
Rodney Lee Jones Jr.

Visiting Artists:
Kiwon Choi
Hoyun Son & Charles Gaines

Saturday, November 8th, 2008 6-9pm
629 W Cermak Rd.
Chicago, IL 60616

"Platform"* is pleased to present one night exhibition and performance by resident artists, Jung-A Woon& Jaclyn Jacunski, and Rodney Lee Jones Jr. presenting their works during the residency in the space in conjuntion of scultural painting by visiting artist, Kiwon Choi, and a recent video work by visiting artists Hoyun Son in collaboration with Charles Gaines. The exhibition is a survey of contemporary arts pushing boundary of traditional art and the mean of culture, regenerating art and artists's roles in urban society.

Jung-A Woo & Jaclyn Jacunski, a collaborative group presents an on-going project called Storyline Transport. They converted the flatbed of a pick-up truck into a place that collects local narratives and enacts them into art. 
The streets are their studios and the truck is our gathering space to include the community.  The truck allows them to go out and move through the city, giving them freedom physically and economically, to meet and learn from people.  The collected stories create cross-cultural exchanges and promote understanding. 
The collection is the “script” for shadow puppets and makes image conversations to express the complexities and concerns of everyday lives in the community.
They are continually investigating what is an individual artist’s role. Storyline Transport investigates what art is, what artists do, and the potential use for art to exist beyond traditional systems.  In their social and ecological landscapes the answers are complex and questions are without end and these questions are what generate their project.  By developing collaborative and community-based projects they nurture their investigation of the role an artist and how the practices are integrated into our community. 

Rodney Lee Jones Jr.
As a connoisseur of urban imagery, texture. and rhythms, Rodney Lee Jones Jr. is breathing, listening, sensing the coming, noting the going with his paint, percussion, vocal utterance, or other encoded language.  He is a reporter of obscure feelings and otherwise unacknowledged phenomena.  In this show, he will present “Orta Vez”, a painting on a door found by a photographer who runs a non-profit organization promoting sexual violence awareness. Rodney Lee Jones Jr. made an abstract painting reflecting the lively haphazard rhythms and the adhesive grid of city life, but "leave some of the wood exposed”. He will also present a performance with percussion and utterance on the night.

Kiwon Choi is experiencing various kinds of materials and performing situations to study a function of traditional fine art. She has depicted the dead (dried) flowers since 2004, which she thinks same as human's aging process, dehydration, to give different visual impact than traditional. “Original Garden”, extended installation works from “resurrection” in 2006 will be presented by Kiwon choi. In these painted sculptures she explore a different dimension of painting by creating botanical installation.

*“Platform” is a temporal artist residency funded and organized by an individual artist in East Pilsen, Chicago for emerging artists/collaboration groups, providing temporary workspace, network, time for envisioning, and showcasing the work in the month of Otober, 2008. "Platform" was realized in partial support by Illinois Art Council.