Seoul
House (Korean Outpost) 1987, charcoal on paper, 10 ft by 70 ft, video and sound, performance commissioned by the Washington Project for theArts, traveled to the Williams College Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem (Decade Show), Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, University of California Berkeley, Wellesley College click to see a video document of the performance The Force of Conviction Stirred by the 80's "The decade under scrutiny in The Decade Show - on view through Aug. 19 at three of New York's most innovative museums - is the one that recently ended. But this exhibition could not be more timely. Among its roughly 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and works on paper is a large-scale drawing from 1987 by a young artist named Y. David Chung that depicts a Korean grcoery store in a predominately black neighborhodd, the sort of establishment now so much in the local headlines. Mr. Chung's subject is racial misunderstanding and the economic inequality, which he represents by giving to the image an edgy, uneasy and vertiginous feel. " read more • additional information, reviews, participants and venues
• the following are details of a large-scale charcoal drawing measuring 10 feet tall and 70 feet long • click here for the Seoul House performance page |
