Looking Forward while Looking Back
With works by Claudia Cortinez, Bonam Kim and Christine Rebhuhn.
Curated by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen
July 31 - August 20, 2020
Virtual Exhibition
This iteration of Looking Forward while Looking Back: In Touch, presents the work of Claudia Cortinez, Bonam Kim, and Christine Rebhuhn.
The practices of these artists question different subjects related to the idea of adaptation. In an inquiry about the tensions that exist when attempting to define boundaries, when extrapolating borders, when bending and adapting languages and systems, when finding thresholds, they create new ways to build relationships with the world.
Rooted in the poetic relations that arise from the touch of different objects and thoughts, they position the body––sometimes their own––as the bridge within each attempt to create poetic pieces and actions that function also as acts of resistance. Physically and conceptually, the intersection of trajectories and histories, along with the gathering of narratives create encounters with the architecture of a place or space, memories, and hidden thoughts.
The works have multiple overlaps that are expressed as raw moments, reproduced to explore ideas of ephemerality and permanence, substance and resistance, while analyzing formal aspects of a place and its relevance and influence in daily life.
About the artists:
Claudia Cortinez
Veils of Myth' is a project by Claudia Cortínez (exhibited at WICK Gallery in 2019), a series of architectural interventions made throughout NYC. She cast paper onto keystone figures of historic building facades, leaving these onsite to be encountered by passersby, often being worn down by the elements. When removed, the paper holds its dimensional form and is exhibited as a sculptural work. Viewers can peer out from the cracks within the figures’ faces and see the buildings’ dust and residue embedded into the paper.
Claudia received her BFA from RISD and MFA from Yale. Select awards include the Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, Alice Kimball Fellowship, and Blair Dickinson Memorial Grant. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in the US, Latin America, and Europe, and has curated exhibitions at the Eduardo Sívori Museum, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, and Loisaida Center, bringing together artists of Latin-American descent. Residencies include the Lower East Side Printshop, LMCC Swing-Space, the NARS Foundation, and Loisaida Center, among others. She is co-founder/director of LAZO, a platform for Latinx artists. Claudia is currently an artist-in-residence at the Center for Book Arts in NYC and at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center.
Bonam Kim
Bonam Kim is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from Hongik University in Seoul, Korea and a mater’s degree in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She was featured as an emerging artist from DongBangYoGae, Art in Culture magazine in Seoul, Korea. She has participated in the residency program at Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn, New York and awarded the Stutzman Family Foundation Graduate Fellowship for her residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She completed a three-month residency at NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY and the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.
Christine Rebhuhn
Christine Rebhuhn is sculptor based in New York City. She received an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015, and a BA in Psychology and Studio Art from Kalamazoo College in 2011. Rebhuhn has had solo exhibitions at NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY, Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN, and at Makeshift in Kalamazoo, MI. Her work has been included in group shows at Tiger Strikes Astroid, New York, the Boiler in Brooklyn, NY and at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN and she exhibited at the 2015 Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennale in Incheon, Korea. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (VT), Elsewhere (NC), NARS Foundation (NY), and Makeshift (MI). Her work was published in ArtMaze Magazine and Maake Magazine.
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