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Artshack Brooklyn is pleased to present the work of Artist In Residence, Hyeree Ro, curated by Alva Calymayor. Created in collaboration with Field Projects.
During her residency, artist Hyeree Ro has been constructing sealed ceramic shapes. Some contain inscriptions, drawings, and smaller objects. Her practice explores concepts of concealment, obscurity, and inaccessibility. The various elements and forms in Hyeree’s installation are the result of a thought process that provides a personal and reflective dimension to this exploration. The contrast between loose, natural shapes and structured, gridded patterns allude to an organic approach to the world confined within rigid environments.
Symbolizing grids, calendars, time, and letters, the artist views the tiles as a metaphor for an organized world. A formal contrast to and enhancement of the freeform shapes. These freeform shapes, both large and small, coexist on top of arranged tiles. Our understanding of them is limited to the extent that they serve as containers for something we are unable to comprehend fully unless the vessel's structure is breached and the contents are revealed.
The works that form part of "Bone Dry," make reference to both the subject matter and the medium. Beyond its ceramic connotation, bone dry refers to the transformations we go through in our lives and afterward, ultimately returning to the elemental essence of physical matter.
Hyeree Ro is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, primarily working with sculptural objects and multi-lingual fractured narrative-based performance. Her practice is informed by her experience as a child of an immigrant growing up in California as well as her subsequent returns to Korea as a teenager and then to the US as an international student. As a constant migrant passing through various immigrant statuses and encountering disparities in class and wealth, Ro interweaves her family history, places, language, body, movement, and stories into her practice. Ro has exhibited at Leeum Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), SVA CP Project Space(New York, NY), Project Space SARUBIA(Seoul, Korea), NARS Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Korean Culture Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), Akiyoshidai International Art Village (Mine, Japan) amongst others. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art (2021) and a BFA from Korea National University of Arts (2017).
ALVA CALYMAYOR b. Mexico City Alva is a visual artist living in New York. Alva makes use of a visual vocabulary that addresses social issues, perceptions of safety as well as patterns of mass consumption. She keeps track of its manifestations and the trace they leave as they are discarded, repurposed or become no longer functional. Her work has been exhibited in: Astral America (curated my Keren Moscovitch, SVA, NY), Chaos/Control (curated by Melinda Wang, Doing Living, NY), Harvest the Night (curated by Leah Dixon, Beverley's, NY), Collective Show Mexico (Casa Maauad, México, D.F.), Spring Break Art Show (NY), at MWOW (curated by Grayson Cox, Knockdown Center, NY). Alva was one of five artists selected for ("Air," Ace Hotel Residency, NY), curated by the BHQFU. She was a Mentor in NYFA's Program Mentorship for Immigrants Program (2014), formed part of the 27th Bronx Artist's in the Marketplace during 2006-2007, and received a Grant from the Stephen Sprouse Scholarship Fund for pushing the boundaries within the printmaking field. Alva has been recognized in several publications for exploring and showcasing art in a non-commercial format, for her collaborations with fellow artists through Eyelevel BQE, project that she co-funded in 2008: Interview Magazine (2013), "Alternative Histories," New York art spaces from 1960-2010, MIT Press (2012), Artists in the Marketplace second Biennial; "The Other Marketplace," Lia Zaalof (2013).
Hyeree Ro is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, primarily working with sculptural objects and multi-lingual fractured narrative-based performance. Her practice is informed by her experience as a child of an immigrant growing up in California and her subsequent return to Korea as a teenager and then to the US as an international student. As a constant migrant passing through various immigrant statuses and encountering disparities in class and wealth, Ro interweaves her family history, places, language, body, movement, and stories into her practice.
Ro has exhibited at the Leeum Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), SVA CP Project Space (New York, NY), Project Space SARUBIA (Seoul, Korea), NARS Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Korean Culture Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), Akiyoshidai International Art Village (Mine, Japan) amongst others. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art (2021) and a BFA from Korea National University of Arts (2017).
