TeaYoun Kim-Kassor Solo Exhibition

As an artist, I try to build channels between visual manifestations and socially compelling reflections. My work is to bring to practice observed, gratifying, and stimulating projects and to seek counterbalance of the concept of linking cultural and social identities with visual art expressions. This connection will serve as a resourceful way to enrich the sharing of information and to document the explanatory power of art and to engage meaningful relationships in the global community.
The visual illustration of drawn ropes and paraffin mold method will deliver an opportunity to re-exam a particular quandary “what is the reality vs. delusion?” The tangible doorknobs without doors and the visual description of fragile paraffin mold vs. metal screws create a paradoxical and contradictory statement. The purpose of the project is to enhance an awareness and better understanding of the different processes involved in our social and cultural context of the identity question. My hope is to trigger the larger audience by allowing them a reflective moment, which will direct them expectantly towards retracing their own history and by leading them to question “what defines us?”
I believe that the project will contribute to the growth of cultural and social views by creating the possibility for the exchange and sharing of ideas. I hope to make a contribution to the global society through exploring oneness to wholeness through understanding the present moment, which is a fundamental aspect of our life. This project is built on the premise that our national attitudes are gradually evolving into global attitudes and the context of global interdependence.

TeaYoun Kim-Kassor is originally from South Korea where she received her B.F.A. in Fine Arts at SungShin Women’s University in Seoul. She continued her research in Art Education as the Japanese equivalent of a Fulbright Scholar at Saitama University in Japan where she earned an M.A.T. In America, TeaYoun continued her exploration of fine arts in the M.F.A. program at the University of Tennessee with a focus on installation. Currently, she is teaching as an Associate Professor of Art at Georgia College & State University in GA, U.S.
TeaYoun has been a very active artist having numerous exhibitions including at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington D.C., University of South Carolina in Beaufort, SC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MoCA), GA, La Macina di San Cresci in Florence, Italy, Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, Montana State University Gallery in Bozeman, MT, Maryville College Gallery in Maryville, TN, Black-box Theatre in Milledgeville, GA, Folklore Museum in Sendai, Japan and etc. Her artwork has been supported by the Folklore Museum in Sendai, Japan, the National Performance Network (supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation), CESTA in Tabor, Czech Republic, and Can Serrat in Barcelona, Spain.

TeaYoun Kim-Kassor “Access for All” (2018)