5 Contemporary Artists Joy Leinenbach ARE 5454 June 19, 2009 Jean Shin Jen Harmon Allen Park Sung Tae Annette Messager Ellen Gallagher

Jean Shin Born in Seoul, South Korea, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She lives and works in New York City. She uses cast-off objects to create her pieces

Alterations, 1999 Fabric (pants scraps) and wax 2 ft h x 12 ft w x 12 ft

Armed, Cut fabric (military uniforms from US soldiers), thread and starch14 ft h x 36 ft w x 6 ft d Installation at Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., ft h x 38 ft w x 6 ft d

Detail from Armed

Chemical Balance III, 2009 Prescription bottles, mirror and epoxy, flourescent lights 5 units, from 18 to 40 inches in diameter Overall dimensions variable Installation at Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Details from Chemical Balance III

Key Promises, 2006 key caps: enter, clear, space, backspace, pause/break, control, shift, alt/option, return, home, esc, end 46 linear feet Installation at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York

Details from Key Promises, 2006

Seams (4 Shirts), in h x 53 in w x 5 in d

Seams (Red Dress), in h x 26 in w x 2 in d

Seams (Gold Dress), in h x 50 in w x 2 in d

Seams (Green Dress with Pleats), in h x 34 in w x 2 in d

Jen Harmon Allen born and raised in Madison, Connecticut graduated in 1995 from Wellesley College She received her M.F.A. in 2001 from Brigham Young University Currently living in Eagle Mountain, Utah

Stories the Hummingbird Told Me, 2000 Installed at the UVSC Woodbury Gallery in Orem, Utah

These dresses are about resurrecting the past and preserving the present. I started with dated second-hand pieces of clothing that I feel carry certain psychological weight: the once-prized party dress or previously useful scrub gown that were no longer of use to their original owners. These dresses I then dipped in wet plaster and left to dry over a form. Detail from Stories the Hummingbird Told Me

The painted flora and fauna refer to the life teeming around the farmhouse where I lived. A hummingbird often visited me because of my bright frock and gave me the inspiration to depict the wondrous wildlife I watched. Detail from Stories the Hummingbird Told Me

Changing of the Guard Mixed Media Installation, 10 x 7 x 7 ft. 2001

Detail from Changing of the Guard

Close-up detail from Changing of the Guard

This work is about healing the broken, creating order from chaos. It came out of an obsession with the extras and left-overs that I collect. In my subconscious moments I began trying to put together fragments that didn t have their matching pieces anymore and found they became much more interesting that way. Ephemerata Mixed Media Installation, 7 x 11 x 3 ft. 2000

Detail from Ephemerata

Alpha Dress Clay, Steel Dimensions: 36" tall

Park Sung Tae 1987 B.F.A, Dept of Oriental Painting, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 1993 M.F.A, Graduate School of Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Major: Oriental Painting)

Variable Installation - Untitled 2 Aluminium Insect Screening 1330mm X 1050mm

Annette Messager Art is like a secret, an epigraph. It is literally cut out of life. We must not try too show to much, to divulge everything, to unveil too much. Art is a secret shared between the individual and the collective. In order to be touched by a work of art, it must first refer to the person who made it, a strong personality, and it must touch the collective, everyone must find something in this order

Bio born in Berck, France, in 1943 Trained at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs (School of Decorative Arts) in Paris Her approach encompasses painting, embroidery, sculpture, assemblage, collage, film montage, and even writing in installations She does not differentiate between high and low forms of art, and her mixing of sources and media reflects her view that art be opened up to the disorder of life. Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art

Above Story of Dresses 1990 dress, photograph, drawing, string, glass box. overall dimensions variable Detail right

Detail from Story of Dresses 1990 dress, photograph, drawing, string, glass box. overall dimensions variable As in each individual, there is the side that reveals, discloses things and a side that hides, conceals. I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see

Detail of Story of Dresses 1990 dress, photograph, drawing, string, glass box. overall dimensions variable

M y Vows ( Mes Voeux ), Gelatin silver prints and string, dimensions variable, approximately 140 x 73 inches (355.6 x cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

My Vows (Mes Voeux) Gelatin-silver prints under glass, and string, dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Norton Family Foundation. Above: Detail from My Vows

Details from My Vows

My Works (Mes Ouvrages) Gelatin-silver prints under glass, and colored pencil on wall, overall dimensions variable. Collection the artist.

Parade Stuffed toys, taxidermized animals, netting, gelatin-silver prints under glass, and metal poles. Overall dimensions variable. Collection the artist, courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.

Details of The Pikes (Les Piques) Parts of dolls, fabric, nylons, colored pencils, colored pencil on paper under glass, and metal poles. Museum National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and collection Michael Harris Spector and Dr. Joan Spector.

Penetration Installation view, artist's studio, Malakoff, France, Fifty sewn and stuffed fabric elements, and angora yarn. Collection the artist and Monika Spr ü th Galerie, Cologne

Ellen Gallagher born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1965 lives and works in New York and Rotterdam, Holland She attended Oberlin College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

"DeLuxe", installation view Portfolio of 60 prints, edition of 20 Each print: 13 x 10 inches

"Bad Skin" from "DeLuxe" Aquatint, photogravure, cut paper, oil, graphite, varnish, and collage, 13 x 10 inches

"Mr. Terrific" from "DeLuxe Aquatint, photogravure, and plasticine, 13 x 10 inches

"eXelento" 2004Plasticine, ink and paper on canvas, 96 x 192 inches

"The Man Who Kept Harlem Cool" from "DeLuxe" Aquatint, photogravure, direct gravure, collage, gouache, and plasticine, 13 x 10 inches