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Jae Hi Ahn
Brooklyn, NY

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Jae Hi Ahn is showing at:
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41 Sheldon Boulevard SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
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Jae Hi Ahn
Artist bio: Jae Hi Ahn was born in Seoul and grew up in Dangjin, Chungnam, South Korea. She received BFA in sculpture from Chungnam National University in South Korea in 1997 and received MFA from C. W. Post Campus/LIU in NY in 2002. She has had several awards, residencies and exhibitions including Sculpture Space, Ragdale, Rotunda Gallery, The Field sculpture Park at OMI, Broadway Windows at NYU, UAI Fellowship, Dumbo Art Center, Elizabeth Foundation, Alpan gallery and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her work was reviewed at The New York Times and The Brooklyn Rail. She is currently living & working in Brooklyn, NY.
Artist statement: Jae Hi Ahn creates the large-scale sculptural installation which expresses the wonder of the
natural world and the objects from the man made world and provides the viewer with an entrance to a place or environment that evoke a distant nostalgic notion of the bygone like her hometown, landscape, an imaginary place of wonder, or a futuristic world. Ahn has assembled the industrial and everyday-life materials, elaborating on the viewer’s perceptions of them and transforming the mundane into the extraordinary.
About the work:
Title: The Aerial

Art form: 3-D

Medium: PVC Tube, wire

Year created: 2009

Description of work: The Aerial, while a site-specific sculpture, invites viewers to dream up their own habitats for self-contemplation, discipline and spiritual repose. Depending on what viewers add or subtract to the framework, the ideal space could be a natural landscape, long-lost or future homeland, or an amalgam of sites both real and imaginary. The Aerial is made of clear PVC tubes and wire, materials that with their malleable, transparent, and commonplace qualities can accommodate many different concepts of place.

Work statement:

Technical details:
Work width: 408 inches
Work height: 32 inches
Work depth: 48 inches
Required venue ceiling: n/a
Required venue door height: n/a
Required venue door width: n/a
Required wall linear footage: n/a
Required venue square footage: n/a
Additional considerations:
Audio/video needed: No
Electrical needed: No
Lighting needed: Yes
Internet access needed: No
Ground floor access needed: No
Indoor space needed: Yes
Outdoor space needed: No
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