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2/14/05

SLU GALLERY HOSTS CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SOUTH KOREA 

CANTON – "Incongruent: Contemporary Art from South Korea" will be on exhibition 
in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University from February 28 
through April 2. An artist's lecture by Yong Soon Min will be on Tuesday, March 
1, at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center. It is open to the public, 
free of charge.
	The exhibition brings together works by eight artists from South Korea, 
plus Min, a Korean-American artist from Los Angeles. Two of the artists whose 
work is included are closely associated with Min Joong ("people's art"), a 
cultural and political movement of the 1980s. Their works are juxtaposed in the 
exhibition with pieces from five younger artists who work in conceptual and 
performance-based photography, videos and Web-based projects.
	Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Young Min Moon, exhibition curator, states, 
	"The link between the generations lies in the artists' investigations of the 
visible and pervasive forces of modernity in Korea and in their critical 
reception of western cultures, as they examine the presence of the 
United States and scrutinize the division of the Korean peninsula. The works in 
this exhibition present South Korea's hybrid material culture as a direct result 
of international politics related to the Cold War and globalization, or more 
appropriately, what is known as glocalization."
	The exhibition is supported by a grant from the Freeman Foundation to 
St. Lawrence University's Asian Studies Initiative; the Jeanne Scribner Cashin 
Endowment for Fine Arts; and the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation.
	For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, contact 
the gallery at 315-229-5174.

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