Stephen Gang Gallery, Inc.
529 W. 20th St. 4E
New York, NY 10011
Tel. 212-741-7832/Fax. 212-741-7957
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GA HAE PARK
Music Drawings
October 6 - November 24, 2001
Reception: Saturday, October 6, 2001, 6 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 6:00
Korean born Ga Hae Park simplifies patterns into the continuous
foundation of all creation underlying visual art, music, life and beyond. The
conceptual structure of art for Ga Hae Park can be found in her statement "A
visual sound of a diagram is related to a heartbeat with a feeling, . . . "
Within the intervals of time a treasure house of personal meaning can be
discovered. Her art is that of an independent self-conscious self
constructing novel patterns within the constraints of predetermined
boundaries of time and nature. She discovers and alters patterns that
reflect personal nature and time within these boundaries. The choice is
made to accept life's rhythms as the force and material for creation.
Through space, time, sound and, life itself, she expresses and represents
the intervals that define her being. Music is taken for inspiration,
especially J.S. Bach, as a manifest of the continuous river which bridges
the layers of the emotional, intellectual, physical and metaphysical.
Ga Hae Park fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and
intellectual, forms by drawing with cut paper, shaping and layering positive
and negative space into rhythms. The paper is meticulously cut and composed,
opened and closed, with a focus on creating lines that specify coherent
patterns of light and shadows on a grid, forming a visual musical structure.
In essence, the paper itself becomes the instrument that draws light into
visual musical patterns. The exhibition is an installation incorporating
several works. Each piece, which is part of the individual work, is a
component, much like a movement, that comprises a larger integrated work
within the theme of the ambient statement. Sound, light and physical
processes, whether subjective or objective, through inference, are all
interrelated and consistent within this statement. At first glance, what she
is doing may seem simple, but as one reflects on the visual movement and
feeling, the consciousness that the work is not simplistic is accomplished.
Sheltered by what appears to be the chaotic pattern of life is a logic and
beauty of order to be revealed. Ga Hae Park states that she is, ". . .
combining my paperwork with the sound and structure of music. I use music as
my inspiration. I translate sound into linear patterns that can be
interpreted as either a visual image in terms of lines and compositions and
as a literary one in terms of a language to be deciphered and read. Listening
to music, I feel a space that flows like a river. This space is a real
physical space. It is an abstract and metaphysical realm for me. Music, by
evoking that abstract space, inspires me to create new spaces through my art.
A visual sound of a diagram is related to a heartbeat with a feeling, . . .
"
Stephen Gang
