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Image Date
8-25-2017
Description
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery
Exhibit Date
August 25 - October 29, 2017
Exhibit Description
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery DePauw University is pleased to present an exhibition featuring new works by multi-media artist Jiha Moon (Korean, Born 1973). Based in Atlanta, Georgia, 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. Funding for the exhibition is generously provided by the Arthur E. Klauser Endowment and the Asian Studies program.
Recommended Citation
Moon, Jiha, "Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here" (2017). All Past Exhibitions. 68, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_exhibit/68
Medium
Jiha Moon's Double Welcome