Went to San Diego, saw art, forgot art.
November 1, 2024 11:13 AM
Went to the San Diego Museum of Art in Jan 2021 and saw a painting by a Korean or Korean-American woman that I'd like to see again. What painting am I thinking of?
In Jan 2024 I went to the San Diego Museum of Art and visited the exhibition on South Korean art. One painting in particular I'd like to see again is a black & white painted by a female artist that traces the artist (assuming it's self-referential) through multiple stages of her life - not unlike a comic book page in the sense that the artwork communicated a timeline and events in their own spaces, progressing from space to space - but it wasn't comic book-y in style.
If it helps, there's a space in which it's clear the artist doesn't like her marriage, then a following space in which she makes female friends in what looks like a bathhouse (maybe?) setting. It was a big piece overall.
Who's the artist and what's the artwork called? SD Museum didn't have it on the website anymore and searching that exhibition brought up the colorful artwork featured rather than the black and white (maybe this actually graduated into color later in the painting but I don't think so?) paintings that were there.
In Jan 2024 I went to the San Diego Museum of Art and visited the exhibition on South Korean art. One painting in particular I'd like to see again is a black & white painted by a female artist that traces the artist (assuming it's self-referential) through multiple stages of her life - not unlike a comic book page in the sense that the artwork communicated a timeline and events in their own spaces, progressing from space to space - but it wasn't comic book-y in style.
If it helps, there's a space in which it's clear the artist doesn't like her marriage, then a following space in which she makes female friends in what looks like a bathhouse (maybe?) setting. It was a big piece overall.
Who's the artist and what's the artwork called? SD Museum didn't have it on the website anymore and searching that exhibition brought up the colorful artwork featured rather than the black and white (maybe this actually graduated into color later in the painting but I don't think so?) paintings that were there.
That was such a cool exhibit! I went back through my photos but I didn't have any of that one.
The website says that "Korea in Color is selected and co-organized by The San Diego Museum of Art, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, and is co-curated by Rachel Jans, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at SDMA and Kihye Shin, Associate Curator at MMCA."
Rachel Jans is at SDMA so I imagine you could get in touch with her through the museum and ask.
posted by exceptinsects at 11:49 AM on November 1
The website says that "Korea in Color is selected and co-organized by The San Diego Museum of Art, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, and is co-curated by Rachel Jans, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at SDMA and Kihye Shin, Associate Curator at MMCA."
Rachel Jans is at SDMA so I imagine you could get in touch with her through the museum and ask.
posted by exceptinsects at 11:49 AM on November 1
Go ahead and ask!
Museum people are cool as shit, and they really work hard to develop an exhibition -- so there should be exhaustive notes about all the pieces in the show. If the museum doesn't have them, they will refer you to the curators (named above), who will probably be pleased as punch that someone is asking, and happy to dig through their emails and printed exhibit catalog.
posted by wenestvedt at 12:55 PM on November 1
Museum people are cool as shit, and they really work hard to develop an exhibition -- so there should be exhaustive notes about all the pieces in the show. If the museum doesn't have them, they will refer you to the curators (named above), who will probably be pleased as punch that someone is asking, and happy to dig through their emails and printed exhibit catalog.
posted by wenestvedt at 12:55 PM on November 1
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posted by OrangeDisk at 11:46 AM on November 1