 Contemplation on the Digital Land (detail), 2001 C-Print (digital painting) 80 x 58" |
 Narcissus in the Mirror, 2000 Digital C-Print 7 x 9.6" Edition of 30 |
 Bullfight (detail), 2001 Digital C-Print 60 x 27.8" Edition of 6 |
 Suicide of Eden, 2001 Digital C-Print 60 x 33.3" Edition of 6 |
In my recent work, art functions as a constructed world. 'The Sanctuary of the imagination' is the inter-relationship between myself and the world into which the viewer can enter. This sanctuary becomes a new space of reconciliation from conflict. It is shown as a highly staged imaginative place displaying an ideal world where one escapes from avoidable social reality. Hence, it is necessarily shown as an improbable fictional world.By combining different elements, the imaginative state brings viewers on journeys into different time and space. Also, this sanctuary suggests a kind of tranquility reconciling conflict. It intrigues us to move deeper into an euphoric stage of desire in this chaotic world. This desire transforms the present by revisiting the past and exploring future.
This fictional world consists of segments of time and space created out of an imagined continuum. Some of the images are real, while some of them are improbable to make us enjoy the fake. This 'sharable' fiction is experienced through advanced digital technology and entertainment nowadays. It is a manifestation of shared information, desire, fear, history, and the future. The 'Remake' of elements from the past and the 'Pre-make' of the future, reflecting through the prism of the present, are based on irrational thought. In the process of my fabrication, the subconscious gets to play. The personas in my work are used to elicit aspects of ourselves and to create fictions with the conviction of the real. Sometimes they are from mythology and sometimes they are from the future. These figures desire, therfore, they exude energy. Desire itself is reproductive, imbued with the spontaneous energy to transfigure--creating a peculiar mixed-breed of form through time. The metabolism of these elements can be described as a soup where nature, culture, and the technology are transformed into a mixed-breed. It refers to the possibility of another life, something extremely different, something better, perhaps a better world to exist in. This is considered nostalgic and invalid in today's society, but I nevertheless persist in holding onto it.
In practicing these ideas, I use various kinds of conceptual tactics such as supposition, fabrication, distortion, and duplication. These experimental techniques are derived from painting, cinema, and the conventional printmaking process brought together on the computer. The dramatizations of my subjects are made in a process of meticulously layered construction. Sometimes this construction is shown as two-dimensional collaged image, and sometimes as three-dimensional moving images. I am attempting to establish contemporary terms for recovering the qualities and functions of older pictorial art using digital technology. This is synthetic technology, not photography. It's not cinema. It's not painting; but it has strong associations with all these. It is something new and extremely open--a medium that needs to be developed and explored. --- Suhee Wooh, 2001
Suhee Wooh
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Education
| 1998 | Cranbrook Academy of Art/MFA in Printmaking, MI |
| 1995 | Ewha University/MFA in Painting, Seoul, Korea |
| 1992 | Ewha University/BFA in Painting, Seoul, Korea |
| 1988 | Sunwha Music&Art School |
Media Appearances
| 2000 | "Suhee Wooh's Video Art" broadcast. Ch.56(Time Warner Cable),
Ch. 108(RCN) September 23, 10:30~11:00PM, New York, NY |
| 1995 | "Interviews with the Artists", The Korea Times, June 10 |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2001 | "Printmaking defined:International group exhibit of contemporary
artist", Awagin Plaza, Tokushima city, Tokushima, Japan
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| 1998 |
"Art & Technology"show, Memphis College of Art, Memphis,
TN |
| 1997 | "Returning Student Juried show", Network Gallery, Pontiac, MI "True Crime", Cranbrook Art museum, Bloomfield Hill, MI "Michigan Fine Art Competition", Bloomfield Art Association Hall, MI "Forget Death, Cranbrook Art Museum, MI |
| 1996 | "Intersection", Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hill, MI "Decked", Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hill, MI |
| 1995 | "Korea Times Youth Artists Selected Exhibition, Baksang Gallery,
Seoul, Korea "MFA show, Ewha University Art Museum, Seoul |
| 1994 | "Exhibition of New Form 94", Yoon gallery, Seoul "The Korea Grand Art Exhibition", The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon, Korea "Contemporary Art Festival", Art Center, Seoul, Korea "Seoul Print City on Tour Exhibition, 0/editon, Yoon Gallery, Seoul "Media"exhibition, Kyonging Gallery, Seoul, Korea "The Experimental Spirit" exhibition, Baksang Gallery, Seoul |
Scholarships / Awards
| Flint Family Merit Scholarship,
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI 1997-1998 Michigan Fine Art Competition, Bloomfield HIlls Art Association, MI The Korea Times Youth Artists Competition, First Prize, Baksang Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1995 The Korea Grand Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, 1994 The Korean Women Artists Public Subscription Exhibition, Special prize, Sejong Cultural Center, Korea, 1994 The New Core Scholarship Competition, New Core Hall, Seoul 1993
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