Sunday, Jun 25, 2023
Opening Reception – Joeun Kim Aatchim and Antone Könst: Moon Distance
About
Join us on Saturday, April 29, from 3-5 pm for the opening reception of our second exhibition of the year Joeun Kim Aatchim and Antone Könst: Moon Distance. Light snacks will be provided.
The exhibition is presented as part of twofold, a series of conversations between Lighthouse Works alumni fellows and their respective practices. The exhibition will be on view at the Annex until August 12th, and a podcast episode where the artists are interviewed by Tryn Collins will be released later in the year.
Artists
Bio
Joeun Kim Aatchim (44) crafts contemporary relics and installs audiovisual essays. She is a self-directed lifelong learner of various ancient art, such as Korean silk paintings, silverpoint, mosaics, ceramics, fresco, intaglio, bookmaking, and ventriloquism. Her recent research focuses on her missing stereovision and the psychology of women. Aatchim's projects have shown internationally, namely at SBC Galerie d'art Contemporain in Montréal, Long March Space in Beijing, and 80 WSE Gallery, The Jewish Museum, and The Drawing Center, in which the Foundation of Contemporary Arts supported her project. She has received fellowships at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Open Sessions at The Drawing Center, and was a Lighthouse Works and Triangle Art Association fellow in 2021. She earned her BFA in Studio Arts at New York University and MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University.
Website
https://www.joeun-aatchim.com/Bio
Antone Könst [7] (b. 1987, New Haven, USA) received his BFA from CalArts, his MFA from Yale University School of Art, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Tilton Gallery, NY; Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY; Each Modern, Taipei; Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles; and the Fondation des Etats Unis, in Paris. Könst has won Public Art commissions from Lighthouse Works, NY and Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; and has participated in group exhibitions with Anton Kern, NY; Beers Gallery, London; Mrs Gallery, NY; Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels; and others. He is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Grant as well as the Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship. He will have a show at Tilton Gallery, NY in September, 2023.
