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Image Date
9-21-2017
Event Date
Thursday, September 21: 4:15pm
Description
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Jiha Moon harvests cultural elements native to Korea, Japan, and China and then unites them with Western elements to investigate the multi-faceted nature of our current global identity as influenced by popular culture, technology, racial perceptions, and folklore. Featuring over fifty works, Moon blurs the lines between Western and Eastern identified iconography such as the characters from the online game Angry Birds© and smart phone Emojis which float alongside Asian tigers and Indian gods, in compositions that appear both familiar and foreign simultaneously.Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone's Mad Here is organized by the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, in collaboration with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina. The exhibition is curated by Amy G. Moorefield, Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Taubman Museum of Art and Mark Sloan, Director and Chief Curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Free and open to the public, join us on Thursday, September 21st at 4:15PM in the Peeler Auditorium to hear Jiha discuss her work in the exhibition Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone's Mad Here (on display from August 25th until October 29th in the Visual Arts Gallery at the Peeler Art Center.) Funding for this exhibition is generously provided by the Arthur E. Klauser Endowment and the Asian Studies program.
Recommended Citation
Moon, Jiha, "Artist Lecture with Jiha Moon" (2017). Past Events. 94, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/94
Medium
Jiha Moon Double Welcome, 2014 Ink and acrylic on Hanji mounted on canvas 18 (H) x 18 (W) inches Rick Rhodes Photography & Imaging, LLC