Galleries and Exhibits - Antipodal Encounters
The Gage Family Art Gallery
First level, Oren Gateway Center
Augsburg College
January 22 – February 26, 2010
Artist reception: Friday, January 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Artist gallery talk: Friday, January 22, 11 a.m.
Adeline M. Johnson Conference Center, Oren Gateway Center
“Antipodal Encounters” features the 3D forms created by Korean artist Eun-Kyung Suh and Argentinean artist Cecilia Ramon. Before their immigration, both artists experienced social unrest and political tyranny in their native countries, which led them to explore the relationship between body and mind through their visual installations. Suh creates vessels out of sheer fabric to examine the meaning embedded in fabric and its relationship to the body. She sculpts the cloth by folding and sewing it together to create a sacred form where both mundane objects and intimate memories can be kept. Ramon investigates the physical and emotional presence of tension in our life through her manipulation of wood forms. She carves, burns, binds, and suspends wood, viewing it similarly in character to the human body in both its frailty and strength.
Suh and Ramon have participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Suh received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Ramon graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Superior with a Master of Arts. Both artists currently teach at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
All events are free and open to the public.
The Gage Family Art Gallery
22nd Ave. S. at Riverside Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55454
www.augsburg.edu/galleries
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Image caption: “’87” Eun-Kyung Suh, “Sunyata I” Cecilia Ramon
