JAEHYO LEE & JONGRYE CHA

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JAEYHO LEE

JaeHyo Lee has been rethinking and re-envisioning use of quotidian materials for several decades. Rather than dismantling each sculptural component and creating a hybrid aesthetic, Lee's works emphasize his materials' essential nature. The trajectory of his current work reveals his refined approach to nature - addressing simple elements and, from them, creating large scale works of remarkable impact. In his current solo exhibition, Walking With Nature, at the Seognam Art Center in South Korea, he has been able to exercise the full scope of his vision, with massive works of suspended stone, works of scale rendered in feather-light leaves, and the unique works in formed nails.

Lee’s seminal twenty-foot-high sculpture, LOTUS, comprised of wood that is burned, shaped, and hand carved, is currently on view in INFLUX, a public art exhibition in downtown Providence in collaboration with The Avenue Concept and RISD Museum, through 2016. The artist originally debuted the sculpture in New York City’s Union Square Park in the spring of 2013, a collaboration with NYC Parks, the Union Square Partnership, and CYNTHIA-REEVES, before it traveled to Sarasota, Florida for the annual Season of Sculpture Exhibition in 2014.

JaeHyo Lee graduated from Hong-Ik University in 1992, and is the prizewinner of the Hankook Ilbo Young Artists Award in 1997; the Osaka Triennial Award in 1998; the Kim Sae-Jung Award in 2000; the Sculpture in Woodland Award in 2002; and the Japan Hyogo International Competition Award in 2004. His work is included in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea; Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art Japan; Metropolitan Art Museum, South Korea; Busan and the Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Japan. Additional recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL along with numerous museum exhibitions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in CRAFED: Objects in Flux, Museum of Art and Design’s inauguration exhibition, Second Lives, and Korean Eye. Lee lives and works in Seoul, Korea.

JaeHyo Lee, 0121-1110=114111 (Slanted Bench), 2014, wood (chestnut), 35.375 x 116.125 in (89.9 x 295 cm)

JaeHyo Lee, 0120-1110=1090320, 2009, stainless steel bolts, nails and wood. (24 x 39.5 in, 61 x 100.3 cm)

JaeHyo Lee, 0121-1110=115101, 2015, wood (larch), 49 x 98 in (125 x 250 cm)

JaeHyo Lee, 0121-1110=111053, 2011, wood (chestnut), 50.39 x 47.24 in (128 x 120 cm)

JaeHyo Lee, 0121-1110=1081228, 2008, stainless steel nails, bolts and wood, 16 x 27.5 x 4 in (40.6 x 69.8 x 10.2 cm)

JaeHyo Lee, 0121-1110=1150110, 2015, wood (chestnut), 41.33 x 35.82 in (105 x 91 cm)

LOTUS IN PROVIDENCE, RI

JaeHyo Lee, LOTUS, 2013, wood, 220 x 44 in (558.8 x 111.8 cm), Providence, RI

JaeHyo Lee, LOTUS, 2013, wood, 220 x 44 in (558.8 x 111.8 cm), Providence, RI

SEONGNAM ARTS CENTER

JaeHyo Lee, Walking With Nature, exhibition, May - July 2016, Seongnam Arts Center, Cube Art Gallery, South Korea

JaeHyo Lee, Walking With Nature, exhibition, May - July 2016, Seongnam Arts Center, Cube Art Gallery, South

JaeHyo Lee, Walking With Nature, exhibition, May - July 2016, Seongnam Arts Center, Cube Art Gallery, South Korea

JaeHyo Lee, Walking With Nature, exhibition, May - July 2016, Seongnam Arts Center, Cube Art Gallery, South Korea

JaeHyo Lee, Walking With Nature, exhibition, May - July 2016, Seongnam Arts Center, Cube Art Gallery, South Korea

JaeHyo Lee, Walking With Nature, exhibition, May - July 2016, Seongnam Arts Center, Cube Art Gallery, South Korea

JONGRYE CHA

JongRye Cha lets her chosen material of wood, guide her practice as it takes shape through her hands. Working with it as if it were clay, she meticulously layers and sands hundreds of delicate wood pieces into contours and shapes that seemingly have no beginning or end. The resulting monumental works have a fluidity and energy that symbolize JongRye Cha's philosophy of the landscape, our individual lives and the world around us. Presenting her sculptures as something that is living and moving, rather than as an object of complete reality, her work calls on the ideas of creation, infinity and eternity.

JongRye Cha’s practice is a mastery of precision, detail and craftsmanship. It is her ability to ‘talk’ to the wood to challenge and manipulate it with and against its natural grain which allows it to gently receive her movements and thus transform its innate characteristics into eased tactile sculptures. Her rendering of the wood, the play between layers and tension, and the dance of light and shadow across the surfaces, combine to create a powerful expression of flowing energy and life. Other sculptures feature smooth knobs of various sizes that suggest fantastical lunar landscapes. In her most recent work, Cha creates masterfully rendered surfaces of finely fluted cones. According to the artist, the cone “is the first form to break through the flat surface and, at the same time, the last form that arrives at the sky.”

JongRye Cha was born in 1968 in Daejoen, Korea, a historic province now known as the Silicon Valley of Korea, but whose name translates to a ‘large field’ harking back to its simple organic roots. These roots in the simplicity of nature are the basis of the philosophy behind her works and use of wood as her chosen medium. Cha completed her undergraduate degree in Sculpture at Ewha Women’s University in 1992 in Seoul and continued on to receive her MFA in 1996. She has had solo exhibitions at the Nampo Museum of Art in Goheung, at the Vermont Studio Center, and the Sungkok Art Museum in Seoul. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions including The Berkshire Museum, The In and Out Museum in Seoul, The Naro Museum, and the Nampo Art Museum. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Sungkok Art Museum, The Plaza Hotel, Seoul, Seoul, Namp Art Museum, Gohung, and the JW Marriott Hotel, China, and others. She currently lives and works in Korea.

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 131120, 2013, wood, 44 x 44 x 6 in (111.8 x 111.8 x 15.2 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 131120 (detail), 2013, wood, 44 x 44 x 6 in (111.8 x 111.8 x 15.2 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 130915, 2013, wood, 44 x 44 x 6 in (111.8 x 111.8 x 15.2 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 130915, 2013, wood, 44 x 44 x 6 in (111.8 x 111.8 x 15.2 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 130915 (detail), 2013, wood, 44 x 44 x 6 in (111.8 x 111.8 x 15.2 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 091102, 2009, wood, 29 x 29 x 4 in (73.7 x .73.7 x 10.2 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 090710, 2009, wood, 47 x 20 x 3.5 in (119.4 x 50.8 x 8.9 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 090710 (detail), 2009, wood, 47 x 20 x 3.5 in (119.4 x 50.8 x 8.9 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 130110, 2013, wood, 28 x 34 x 10 in (71.1 x 86.4 x 25.4 cm)

JongRye Cha, Expose Exposed 130110 (detail), 2013, wood, 28 x 34 x 10 in (71.1 x 86.4 x 25.4 cm)

JAEHYO LEEBORN1965 Hapchen, Korea Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION1992 BFA, HongIk University, Seoul, Korea SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS2015 M Art Center, Shanghai Shoyang Gallery, Busan, South Korea2014 PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea Albemarle Gallery, London UK Gegjoo Literature House, Korea BUNDO Gallery, Korea M Art Center, Shanghai HADA Gallery, London UK2013 Ever Harvest Art Gallery, Taiwan2012 Madison Gallery, La Jolla CA Albemarle Gallery, London, UK Parkryesook Gallery, Korea DOSI Gallery, Korea HADA Gallery, London UK Sungkok Museum, Korea CYNTHIA-REEVES, ABC Stone, Brooklyn, New York2011 Albemarle Gallery, London Galeria Ethra, Mexico Galerie Noordeinde, Netherlands Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama2010 Yoon Gallery, Seoul Albemarle Gallery, London Nampo Art Museum, Korea Kwai Fung Hin Gallery, Hong Kong CYNTHIA-REEVES, New York, NY2009 Gallery Sol Beach, Korea Ever Harvest Art Gallery, Taiwan Gallery Keumsan, Japan Albemarle Gallery, London Manas Art Center, Korea2008 Bundo Gallery, Korea Dosi Gallery, Korea Cynthia-Reeves Contemporary, New York2007 Gallery Keumsan, Japan Gallery Artside, China Gallery Keumsan, Korea2006 Gallery Marin, Korea2005 Gallery Artside, Korea2003 Gallery Won, Korea2001 Vermont Studio Center, USA2000 Ilmin Museum of Art, Korea1996 Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Korea

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS2016 CRAFTED: Objects in Flux, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA2015 Art Miami, CYNTHIA-REEVES, Miami, FL Seattle Art Fair, CYNTHIA-REEVES, Seattle, WA LOTUS, (Public Art Installation), INFLUX 2015, The Avenue Concept, CYNTHIA-REEVES, Providence, RI KIAF 2015, COEX RE: Kontemporary-Fermented Souls, Waterfall Mansion, N.Y2014 International Fire Sculpture Festival in Jeongseon Samtan Art Mine, Korea LOTUS, (Public Art Installation), CYNTHIA-REEVES, Seasons of Sculpture, Sarasota, FL Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do Cyan Museum, Korea Samtan Art Mine,Korea2013 LOTUS, (Public Art Installation), CYNTHIA-REEVES, Union Square Park, New York, NY Opera Gallery, Dubai Chung Mun Kyu Museum KIAF 2013, COEX Dubai Art-fair, Dubai Hommage a Whanki, Whanki Museum Seek & Desire, Gyeongnam Art Museum Contemporary Art in the Textbook, Aram Museum Art Toronto, CYNTHIA-REEVES, Toronto, ON, Canada2012 KIAF 2012, COEX Korean Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London UK Aqueous, Albemarle Gallery, London UK Contemporary Korean Art Since the 1990’s, Korea China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing Design Days Dubai, Dubai A Magic Moment, Basel Art Center HADA Gallery, London UK2011 International Sculpture Symposium in Icheon, Icheon Moving Art Village, Nampo Art Museum Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong Art Paris, Paris TX Contemporary, CYNTHIA-REEVES, Houston, TX SOFA New York, CYNTHIA-REEVES, New York, NY Gotenyama Exhibition, Ippodo Gallery, Gotenyama2010 Korea Tomorrow, SETEC The Seoul Art Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art G20 Seoul Summit Celebration Exhibition for the Korean Fine Arts, National Assembly Library Art Docking Spot, Woomyoung Art Museum KIAF-VIP Lounge, COEX Hongik Sculpture Exhibition, Triennale di Milano Incheon Museum Taiperi Art Fair, Taipei Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai Lee Jaehyo & Lee Jungwoong Exhibition, Beacon Gallery Arcades Project, Inter Alia Gallery San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Francisco, CA Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong Art Chicago, Chicago, IL Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, New York Multi Effect, Gallery Ihn

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)2010 30th Anniversary of the Young Korean Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea Galleries Art Fair, BEXCO Living Art Fair, COEX Arts and Crafts Collaboration, Icheon World Ceramic Center2009 Korea & Singapore Joint Sculpture Exhibition, Singapore-Botanic Garden Yangpyeong Environmental Art, South Han River Touchart Book Artists, Touchart Gallery Korea International Art Fair, COEX Art Fair Taipei, Taiwan Like of Yves Saint Laurent, Gallery Artside Korean Aesthetics, Albemarle Gallery, UK Mad for Furniture, Nefspace Hong Kong Art Fair, Gallery Keumsan Korea Galleries Art Fair, BEXCO Step of a Bull, Jang Eun Sun Gallery The Great Hands, Hyundai Gallery2008 Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York Korea Now: Emerging Korean Art, Artlink, Israel Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai Korea International Art Fair, COEX Daegu Art Fair, EXCO Art Museum the Traveling, National Museum of Contemporary Art Living Design Fair, COEX Contemporary Neo_metaphor, Insa Art Center Seoul Art Fair, Bexco Opening 10th Busan Municipal Museum of Art, Busan Municipal Museum of Art Changwon Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Changwon Art Hall Circle & Square, N Gallery Planning Invitation Exhibition2007 Lee Jaehyo, Park Seungmo, Chio Taehoon, Group Exhibition, Manas Art Center From Dot to Dot, Whanki Museum Living Design Fair, Designer’s Choice- COEX Beijing Art Fair, China Tuning Boloni, China2006 Simply Beautiful, Centre PasquArt, Biel-Switzerland Art Canal, River Suze, Switzerland EHS Project, Cheonggyecheon, Seoul China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China Alchemy of Daily Life, New Zealand Vibration, EBS Broadcasting Exhibition Hall2005 Vibration, Seoul City Art Museum Hyogo International Competition of Painting, Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan Art & Mathematics, Savina Museum2004 An Open Commemoration the Olympic Museum, Olympic Museum 100% Propose, Gallery Sea & Sea Imjin River, The Side of Imjin River Alchemy of Daily Life, National Museum of Contemporary Art Wave, Gallery Dosi2003 Out of Wood, Kim Chong-Yung Sculpture Museum The Happy Sympathy between Human and Wood, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art Benchmarking Project, Namsan Park

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued) 2003 40’s Artist, Gallery Moro Art Bench, Art Side2002 To Become One with Nature, YungEun Museum International Environmental Art Exhibition a Red-bellied Frog’s Cry, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul DeulMok Association, Gallery Agio2001 Good Design Festival, KOEX, Seoul The Association of Asian Contemporary Sculpture, YungEun Museum of Contemporary Art Lee Jaehyo, Han Sueng-Gon Exhibition, Hotel Lotte Water, Wood, Metal, Earth, Live, Insa Art Gallery

PERMANENT COLLECTIONSNational Museum of Contemporary Art(Korea)Moran Museum(Korea)Ilmin Museum of Art(Korea)Busan Municipal Museum of Art(Korea)Gyeonggi Museum of Morden Art(Korea)63 City Tower(Korea)W-Seoul Walker-hill Hotel(Korea)Borgata Hotel(USA)Park Hyatt Hotel Shanghai(China)Osaka Contemporary Art Center of Japan(Japan)MGM Hotel(USA)Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art(Japan)Intercontinental Hotel(Switzerland)Briton Place-UMU Restaurant(UK)Sculpture in Woodland(Ireland)

Grand Hyatt Hotel(Taiwan)Park Hyatt Hotel Washington D,C(USA)Marriott Hotel(Korea)Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum(USA)Grand Hyatt Hotel Berlin(Germany)President Wilson Hotel(Swiss)Phoenix Island(Korea)Pusan National University Hospital(Korea)Industrial Bank(Taiwan)Crown Hotel(Australia)Park Hyatt Hotel Zurich(Switzerland)Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial(Japan)IFC Seoul Hotel(Korea)EMAAR Building(Dubai)

JONGRYE CHABORN1968 Daejeon, Korea

EDUCATION1996 MFA in Sculpture Graduate School of Ewha Women’s University1992 BFA in Sculpture Ewha Women’s University

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS2015 The 13th Solo Exhibition (R.Mutt Gallery, Seoul) The 12th Solo Exhibition – Red Sea Gallery (Singapore)2014 The 11th Solo Exhibition – Bundo Gallery (Daegu) The 10th Solo Exhibition – Yooart space Gallery (Seoul)2013 The 9th Solo Exhibition – R.Mutt Gallery, Seoul2012 The 8th Solo Exhibition – Nampo Art of Museum, Goheung The 7th Solo Exhibition – Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta-U.S.A2011 The 6th Solo Exhibition – Ever Harvest Gallery, Taiwan The 5th Solo Exhibition-SungkokArtMuseum,Seoul2008 The 4th Solo Exhibition – Vermont Studio Center (Redmill Gallery), U.S.2007 The 3rd Solo Exhibition – Gallery Goanhun, Seoul2004 The 2nd Solo Exhibition – Gallery Artside, Seoul1999 The 1st Solo Exhibition – Gallery Dyukwon, Seoul

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS2015 Immortal Present:Art and East Asia (Berkshire Museum, USA) | IN and OUT (Seoho Art Museum,

Gyeonggi Namyangju) | Hand (Naro Space Center Space Science Museum)2014 Expose exposed:Meditation in wood (d’Orsay gallery,Boston USA) | Ewha Sculpture Association

Exhibition(keunghigung Museum) | Space Empathy (Cheonan Art Center Museum of Art) | Magamnews Installation (Jeju) | Neowa sculpture Exhibition (Nampo Art Museum)

2013 Time Exhibition (R.mutt Gallery) | Magamnews Installation Exhibition (Jaunmam sunchun) | Neowa Sculpture Exhibition (Gowachun-Gallery café-spring)

2012 Magamnews Installation Exhibition (Anyaung-Alvaro siza hall | A Magic Moment (Basel Art Center) | Water (HADA Gallery-U.K)

2011 Unlimited, Unlimited (Kawi Fung Hin Gallery,Hong Kong) | Power of Women (Jeju Museum of Art) | Neowa Sculpture Exhibition (KEPCO Art Center,Seoul) | The Senses-Interactive Perception (HADA Gallery,U.K) | Toronto Art Fair (Canada, Toronto) | Taiwan Art Fair (Taiwan) | KIAF 2011 (COEX,Seoul) | Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2011 (Cheongju) | Art Road 77 (Lee&Park Gallery)

2010 Neowa Sculpture Exhibition (KEPCO Art Center) | Art Beacon in Lotte Hotel (Hotel Lotte) | Neowa Sculpture Exhibition (Moon Gallery, Hong Kong) | Magamnews Installation Exhibition (Paju) | FACT (R.Mutt Gallery-U.K) | Arts and Crafts Collaboration (Icheon World Ceramic Center)

2009 Korean Aesthetics (Albemarle Gallery-U.K) | Aesthetic of material (Gallery 4W) | Neowa Sculpture Exhibition (Gallery Ewah, Seoul) | 7 Things I want to know about Art (Icheon Art Hall)

2008 Living Design Fair (Designer’s Choice – KOEX) | Endingnews Installation Exhibition (Station of Yeoncheon) | Neowa Sculpture Exhibition (Gallery Ewah, Seoul)

2007 Korea-India Art Exchange (India-New Delhi)2006 Endingnews Installation Exhibition (Urim timber-mill, Seoul)

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)2005 Endingnews Installation Exhibition (Middle School) | Songun Great Function (Museum of Seoul art

center, Seoul) | Neowa Sculpture Exhibition (Gallery Dos, Seoul) | ‘Hello’ Exhibition (Gallery Chang) | ‘Seeing with the heart’ Exhibition (Gallery Jungdong Kyunghyang)

2004 Endingnews Installation Exhibition (Selak Resort) | Neowa Sculpture Exhibition (Gallery PICI, Seoul) | ‘The temptation of space’ Exhibition (Gallery Hyundai Department store)

2003 Endingnews Installation Exhibition (Muui Island) | Korean Women’s Fine Art Association Exhibition (Gongpyeong Art Center,Seoul) | Ewha Sculpture Association Exhibition (Gallery Goanhun,Seoul) | Yangpyeong Artist’ Association Exhibition (Yangpyeong Art Center)

2002 Deulmok Association Exhibition (Gallery Agio) | Endingnews Installation Exhibition (Ansung)1992-01 20th Group Exhibition

AWARDS2016 Korean Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Grand Prize2008 The Vermont Studio Center, 15th Annual Freeman Foundation’s Asian Artist’s Fellowship Awards,

Winner2005 Songquen ART Prize Exhibition, Special Prize

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS The Plaza Hotel (Seoul) Sungkok Art Museum (Seoul) Nampo Art Museum (Gohung) Court Yard Marriott Hotel (Pangyo) JW Marriott Hotel (China)

PRESENT Lecturer at Ewha Women’s University Magamnews Open Air Installation Association Regular member of Ewha Sculptor Society

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JAEHYO LEE & JONGRYE CHA