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Young Moon joined the St. Lawrence faculty this fall (2003), after teaching at the New College of Florida. A graduate of Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto , he also holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He teaches studio art and painting courses. Over the past decade, his work has been exhibited at academic and commercial venues in Toronto , Los Angeles , Boston and Seoul , South Korea . In January 2004, two different groups of his works will be exhibited in the Richard F. Brush Gallery at St. Lawrence and Emerson College in Boston . Moon says, "My recent work reflects my concern for physical and mental impotence of the immobile, the ambivalent relationship between the 'official' language (artistic or otherwise) and the minority, and the question of appropriation and marginality. Some of the images are certainly potentially erotic as well. With my new work, I want to demonstrate that it is possible for abstract paintings to carry political messages in subtle ways, while not relinquishing visual pleasure. I am interested in making work that only seems to behave as if it belongs to 'mainstream' art." Part of what he finds attractive about St. Lawrence, Moon says, is the University's commitment to diversity, which he calls “one of the important requisites in liberal arts education. St. Lawrence is making a conscientious effort to diversify the faculty, staff and student body and to understand what carrying out that complex task may entail. Interdisciplinary learning also indicates St. Lawrence's strides toward trans-cultural understanding. I am also grateful for the University's full support for faculty research.”
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Young Moon