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Contemporary works by artists Sheila Christofferson,
Young Kim, and Mark Moore are featured in the personalSPACES show,
which runs January 26 through March 3, 2002. Sheila
Christopher and Young Kim will incorporate individual installations
that are site-specific using photography, audio, or electronic
components along with traditional sculptural materials such as
sand, wood or fabrics. Moore's paintings deal with issues of nostalgia,
power and masculinity as it is culturally disseminated.
Young Kim is an
Assistant Professor of Art at West Virginia University. He received
a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design from Austin Peay
State University in Clarksville, Tennessee and a Master Fine Arts
degree in photography/mixed media from the University of Kentucky
in Lexington,Kentucky. He has exhibited extensively in both solo
and group shows.Young utilizes photography, salt and earth with
a screen-printing process to create gallery installations.
Mark Tobin Moore
has a Bachelor of Art in printmaking from Marshall University
and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from West Virginia University.
Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Art at the West Virginia
State University in Charleston. His work is best described,in
his own words, in the following statement:
“This body of work is comprised of mixed
media paintings completed in the last decade or so while living
in Germany and West Virginia. Many of the latest works were completed
in Morgantown at West Virginia University while an MFA candidate
there in the late nineties. My newest works focus on reflecting
aspects of the American psyche since the terrorist attacks on
Sept.11, 2001.
My paintings are similar in content and style
in that they are often autobiographical in nature and deal with
social issues such as divorce, war, gender,and personal identity.
They are constructed with appropriated magazine photos, photocopies,
acrylic paint, graphite, and other found objects such as scrap
metal pieces. Many works are intentionally rich in texture, reinforcing
their postmodern “objectness,” seeming oftentimes more
like assemblages or sculptures than paintings in the traditional
sense.
I have been influenced greatly by American artists
from the post-WWII period. My favorites are Robert Motherwell,
Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Kienholz, Bruce Conner, Willem de Kooning
and Joseph Cornell. They represent both West and East coast art
movements such as Beat, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop. I have
also been greatly influenced by art professors such as Hank Keeling
at the University of Charleston; June Kilgore at Marshall University;
and Paul Krainak and Christopher Hocking at WVU.”
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