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April 5 - May 31, 2014 reception for the artist: Saturday, April 5, 4-6 PM |
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Press Release The Marsha Mateyka Gallery is pleased to present its 8th solo exhibition of works by nationally known artist Jae Ko. This exhibition introduces two new series: luminous white sculptures and innovative drawings. Jae Ko transforms commercial, ubiquitous materials in her sculpture and her drawing. For over twenty years, her use of adding machine tape/receipt paper has enthralled viewers of her work. Beginning with small rolls of paper on plastic spools, she removes the spools and rewinds the paper into enormous coils. In this exhibition, Jae Ko continues to explore the energy trapped inside, large dense coils of paper. By pulling and twisting the forms, and then seizing the twists with layers of glue, she has invented large-scale dynamic sculptures. This exhibition features two luminous, white, wall mounted sculptures that approach 10 feet in height. From a distance, these works not only appear to be carved from wood, they seem to be growing like wind blasted trunks of ancient trees. In addition to wall mounted work, Jae Ko creates floor pieces. The rear room of the gallery contains one such work--a huge dense configuration of clustered, spiraling red forms. The new drawings represent a complete departure from her previous two dimensional works. Here the artist draws with fine vinyl cord meticulously creating packed patterns of concentric growth or rhythmic fluctuations. In both the sculpture and the drawings, Jae Ko’s use of color is elemental in its monochrome: white, black or red. The new white lightens and lifts the vertical coils in the sculpture while in the drawings it adds an ethereal quality. Black increases the physical presence of the sculptures and the appearance of depth in the drawings. The rich red in Asian tradition connotes happiness. In 2012, “Anonymous Was a Woman” chose Jae Ko, along with Uta Barth, Judy Pfaff, Betye Saar, Lorena Simpson and others to receive an unrestricted grant of $25,000 each, which is awarded nationally to women artist over 40, in recognition of their accomplishments and the quality of their work. Born in Korea, educated in Tokyo and now living in the Washington, DC area, Jae Ko has exhibited extensively in recent years both in the United States and in Europe. Recent solo museum exhibitions include a 10-year retrospective in 2008 at American University Art Museum and two concurrent solo exhibitions in the fall of 2010: "Jae Ko: Paper" at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA and "Force of Nature", a much celebrated installation that transformed an area at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC. Her works are in numerous private and public collections, including in Washington, DC the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and The Phillips Collection. |
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Sculptures |
 JK755, 2014 rolled paper, Sumi ink, graphite and glue 55 x 7.5 x 5.5 inches |
 JK757, 2014 rolled paper, Sumi ink, graphite and glue 45 x 10 x 7.5 inches |
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 JK744, 2014 rolled paper, Sumi ink, graphite and glue 30.5 x 17 x 5 inches |
 JK758, 2014 rolled paper, Sumi ink, graphite and glue 23 x 10.5 x 9 inches |
 JK511, 2006 rolled paper, Sumi ink and glue 11 x 18 x 9.5 inches |
 JK741, 2014 rolled paper, colored ink, and glue 84 x 9 x 12 inches |
 JK740, 2014 rolled paper, colored ink, and glue 79 x 13 x 11 inches |
 JK680, 2010 rolled paper, glue and calligraphy ink 42 x 9 x 6 inches |
 JK718, 2012 rolled paper, glue and calligraphy ink 44 x 12 x 9 inches |
