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September 11, 2020
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October 1, 2020
Looking Forward while Looking Back
With works by Sophie Barbasch, Jinhee Park and Louise Tate.
September 11 - October 1, 2020
Virtual Exhibition
NARS Foundation is happy to present A Self in Construction as part of the Looking Forward while Looking Back series. For this iteration we present the works of Sophie Barbasch, Jinhee Park and Louise Tate.
The practices of these 3 artists converge in the attempt of constructing a definition of the self. They present their existence as something nourished by the environment, the family, their childhood, the cities they live in and even history. These definitions have fictitious and dreamy aspects that call for a reflection through the notion of identity.
In a constant tug between interior and exterior, the individual and the collective, Barbasch, Park and Tate, create poetic narratives based on the complexity of becoming.
About the artists:
Sophie Barbasch
Sophie Barbasch is a New York based photographer. She earned her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BA in Art and Art History from Brown University. Selected grants and residencies include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the NARS Foundation, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil.
Jinhee Park
Jinhee Park (Born 1984 in Seoul) paints mindscape by way of “space of own” that is isolated yet connected to a network of metropolis. He studied at School of Visual Arts, New York (BFA Fine Arts in 2013), Royal College of Art, London (MA Painting in 2017) and He have worked in Kumho Art Residency; Korea, Changdong Residency run by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; NARS Foundation Residency, New York, U.S.A; Leipzig International Art Program (LIA), Germany. He is selected as Honorable Mention of ArtSlant 2016 Grand Prize Winner.
Louise Tate
Louise Tate is a Melbourne-based painter and writer whose practice explores personal and historical narratives of women, care, and the Australian landscape. Her work weaves a story that is personal, national and fictional, offering up possibilities for new ways of being in the world. Recent achievements include: semi-finalist in the Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship (2019) and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2019), finalist in the 'churchie' national emerging art prize (2019), finalist in the Hopper Prize (2020), and an artist residency at the NARS Foundation in New York (2019).
Due to COVID regulations, attendance is limited for the opening reception.
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