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This piece was inspired by a climbing wall I saw in Brooklyn. A climbing wall is usually littered with tiny boulders of various shapes and sizes and your climbing path is marked and color-coded with tape. Say, black tape with a stripe designates a VO, a beginner's path, a dark red could be a V6, a path for only experienced climbers. I thought the climbing wall was a good metaphor for life, with the tape off.
This piece went this past weekend to Cheim & Read's Postcards from the Edge.
I am participating in Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS with a very special piece.. Hosted by Cheim & Read, 547 W 25th St, New York
The Preview Party is tonight: Friday, January 6, 2012 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Benefit show: Saturday, January 7, 2012 from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Sunday, January 8, 2012 from 12:00 - 4:00 PM
Picasso once said "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child". I'd say it will take a few lifetimes to earn the ability to see like a child. As a child you always see things as they are, rarely blinded by purpose or meaning. Once you grow up you stop being fascinated by the obvious thingness of all things, the simple facts of movement and color which are astonishing by themselves but too obvious.
Life existed for 3.5 million years without the ability to see. So the thinking among scientists is that life didn't need the ability to see in order to exist. I am hoping it will take me a bit less than that to learn how to see.
I am showing my most recent drawings during High Line Open Studios - Chelsea 2011. I'll be @ studio 723, 526 West 26th st, New York all weekend, 12-6pm.
I would like to invite you to my Pen and Ink Drawings Open studio as part of High Line Open Studios Chelsea 2011 – Oct 14-16, 526 West 26th street, suite 723, Fri, Sat and Sun 12-6 pm. I will be participating with new pen and ink drawings.
Preview exhibition and opening reception party will be held at 551 West 21st Street, ground floor, the corner of West 21st Street and 11the Ave. The Preview Exhibition will be open to the public for the weekend event, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 14 – 16, 2011, from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
My biggest thanks to Painter and true Londoner Ian Mack with whom I will be sharing the Open Studio space this year. Please, support his work: http://www.ianmackstudios.com/
There are many other participating artists, all within a few blocks around West 26th street in Chelsea. If you can’t make my studio perhaps you can visit theirs: http://www.highlineopenstudios.org/artists.html
To my patrons and all art lovers visiting Open Studios - Thank you for the inspiration and provocation. The planing of future work will be in part based on feedback I received from you. This is going to be in a way a continuation of our conversation. Thank you for your patronage.
I would like to invite you to Pen and Ink Drawings Open studio as part of High Line Open Studios Chelsea 2010 - Oct 15-17, 526 West 26th street, suite 303, Fri 6-9 pm, Sat and Sun 12-6 pm. I will be participating with new pen and ink drawings.
Link to the online invite is here: http://mirenarhee.com/mirena_rhee_invite.jpg
There is going to be an accompanying Exhibition Opening Party for All High Line artists, which will be held at 508 West 26th street, suite 5G, Thurs, Oct 14, 2010 from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibit will remain open Oct 15-17, 2010, Fri, Sat and Sun from 12 to 6 p.m.
Facebook page for this event: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=124283857625985
I would be happy to see you if you can make any of the days/events. Please, feel free to forward around. There are many other artists participating in the event, all within a few blocks around West 26th street in Chelsea. If you can't make my studio perhaps you can visit theirs: http://www.highlineopenstudios.org/artists.html
Thank you for your support!
I feel very fortunate to be part of the great northern California adventure of digital art and film. I had the opportunity to meet and work with some of the most talented people in the digital art industry, the movers and shakers of the contemporary digital art world. Recently I have been thinking more and more of the opportunity we have as artists to influence the visual advancements for the greater good and for social change in the world. I believe change happens one person and one good and one single minded intent at a time. My friend Maria Lee invited me and a few friends from the film and game industry to donate art pieces to a great cause - I was really glad to see my friends rally around and make a difference. Thanks to Maria Lee and all my friends and of course John Lasseter & Pixar who generously organized and hosted the event.
Good Morning and Happy Spring ! I'd like to invite you to SOMA SPRING OPEN STUDIOS: APRIL 17-18, 12 noon to 6 pm. I will be showing ink drawings on paper at site301: 301 8th Street @ Folsom, #245.
Thanks to Kathy Arnold who kindly invited me to share her studio. I will be thrilled if you can make it! For more info. please, visit http://www.somaopenstudios.org/
Couple of my still life photographs were selected for the show on view Jan 8th till mid May, at University of San Francisco Law School, curated by Saiko Matsumaru. it really is appropriate to call this still life although I do not seek this genre on purpose, it rather becomes what it needs to be. Both pieces will be 30 wide x 20 inches tall. I have very few "still life" pieces but the ones I did are of special objects that carry a lot of meaning for me, almost in a karmic way. Both pieces have total of 5 objects in them but the objects cover a wide range of my experiences, and I brought the objects to my studio from distances ranging from half a mile to 6000 miles ( the tea cup ). The flowers are currently floating somewhere in the pacific ocean - I bought them at Dia De Los Muertos for my grandfather and dropped them off the Golden Gate with one of my drawings attached as a makeshift chute.
The cup always seems to strike people the most, but if it was just the cup, it would have been too mundane. The parking ticket on the other hand provides the "rage" plane that lifts the cup from the mundane and into the iconic plane. These are just some after thoughts... at the time I was mildly dismayed but much more excited about the color at play.
Selections 2010, ArtSpan's prestigious biennial juried exhibition will feature 20 SF Open Studios artists at California Modern Gallery, 1035 Market Street, in January. Selections 2010 will be juried by artist Ray Beldner, author and arts writer Alison Bing, and director of California Modern Gallery Inga Fischer. Exhibition Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14, 2010 (free and open to the public). Exhibition Dates: January 7 - 22, 2010. It's still very interesting to me.. when I draw and when I go around taking photographs, my body and my energy are at very different levels, I feel as if I jump to and from quantum-like states going from one activity to the other. Drawing is very still and I feel perfect calm and I understand all, and everything in the universe makes sense. When I go out with my camera it's constant excitement and fascination, as if i see things for the very first time. I marvel at very tiny details or at very big details, and I try to understand the world and steal pieces of it via the lenses.
