Washington, DC - Curator's Office is pleased to present another solo exhibition of Korean-born artist Jiha Moon. For this exhibition, the gallery will showcase a rich array of Moon’s works, all of which are presented on either as framed pieces or wrapped over stretchers as well as works available in the flat files. A reception for the artist will take place on Saturday, September 15 from 6 - 8 pm.

An exhibition broadside by John Ravenal, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, will accompany the show.

Ranging from intimate to large-scale, Moon combines opposing themes and complex relationships to create works that explore both personal, as well as experiences of larger social significance. This paradoxical juxtaposition and conceptual opposition extends to the artist’s painting style and process. By exploring –- and thus exposing –- the dynamic relationship between abstraction and representation, drawing and painting, history and contemporary, east and west, it becomes apparent how Moon is spontaneous and experimental, allowing chance to play an equal part in her work as much as she does focused premeditation.

The captivating dynamism of Jiha Moon’s drawings results from a complex mix. Formally trained in painting both in her native Korea and her adopted homeland of the United States, she has been a student of Eastern and Western artistic traditions alike. The experiences and memories of her two homes translate into her work’s varied geography, wildlife, flora and fauna, light and weather patterns. Into these she weaves references to the narratives of folklore and the spectacle of popular culture. From these myriad sources, Moon culls and reconstitutes her diverse artistic and cultural blend. Within a terrain of Eastern flatness and Western recession, the observed and the fantastical are seamlessly united.

Among a handful of contemporary artists hailed for challenging and extending the category of Asian American art, Moon continues to develop a stunning lexicon of mark making with this exhibition. The artist herself has stated, “I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds. I want to be a visual interpreter of the mixed cultural world of my generation.”

Moon, who received her Master of Arts from the University of Iowa (2002), has exhibited at premier New York venues including the Asia Society Museum, The Drawing Center, and White Columns, as well as in numerous other group and solo shows across the United States and internationally. In 2008, Moon will also be featured in a solo exhibition at The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. She has been selected for residencies at Art Omi, Acadia Summer Art Program (Camp Kippy), and Singapore Tyler Print Institute through the Asia Society, among other awards.

Her work is also part of such prestigious collections as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Asia Society and Museum, New York; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond and has been critically received by The New York Times, Art Papers, The Washington Post, and The New York Sun, among others. She has recently been nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.

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