Do Ho Suh
Do Ho Suh
Lab Grant Resident
Primarily known for large-scale sculptural installations, Do Ho Suh continues his thematic exploration of identity, individuality, and collectivity in this series of works in handmade paper. The artist employs a vibrant color palette to create rich and dynamic images using strands of thread as the drawn line. Motifs familiar to the artist’s existing body of work, such as architectural facades, staircases, and the human “self” are rendered in thread, creating parallels to his large-scale sculptural work. A house front, previously manifested as the 45 x 22 x 9 feet translucent blue nylon installation Blueprint (2010) appears in multiple artworks. Likewise, Karma (2010) a stainless-steel sculpture that features a human form extended through repetition of form is echoed in two-dimensions in Myselves and Whispers. As an artist-in-residence at Dieu Donn. through the Lab Grant residency program, Suh worked in the wet studio with assistance from studio collaborators Paul Wong, Amy Jacobs, and Lisa Switalski, harnessing the unique process of hand papermaking. Each drawing, created by threads stitched into soluble gelatin, was laid on a freshly pulled sheet of cotton paper pulp. Suh then used a mist of water to gently dissolve the thin layer of gelatin, binding the threads to the pulp fibers. Responding to both the water current and careful placement by the artist’s hand, the threads become a gestural line, capturing the energy of the wet process.
About the Artist
Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul, South Korea) splits his time between New York City, London, and Seoul. He received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University. His recent solo exhibitions and projects include Home within Home within Home within Home within Home, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2013–2014); Do Ho Suh: Perfect Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2012–2013); In Between, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2012); Fallen Star, the Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego (2012); Home within Home, the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2012); and Wielandstr.18, 12159, DAAD Galerie, Berlin (2011). In 2001, Suh represented Korea at the Venice Biennale and subsequently participated in the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, and the 2012 Gwangju Biennale. Suh was named WSJ. Magazine's 2013 Art Innovator of the Year.
The artist’s work is included in numerous museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; the Guggenheim Museum, New York City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Modern, London; the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; the Artsonje Center, Seoul; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, among many others. (Source: The Contemporary Austin)
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