Who Said What Art Show

My current show, Who Said What, is a collection that combines my love for engaging people in the creation of my art as well as my desire to reimagine quotes that move people to live better lives. The creation process begins with a call for quotes to be submitted. I then do careful research and select a unique photograph of the quote’s author, typically in their youth, imagining them as my peer. Using the reference image, I draw the piece itself inspired by 1950s and 60s screen printing, interior design and album covers.

Particle Portal - Automatic Gate plus fabrication photos

Gate for Maryland Public Health Lab:
Protein diagrams, molecular structures and cell geometry refer to scientific analysis conducted by the Maryland Public Health Lab dedicated to the well being of the citizens of the state. When closed a DNA helix visually ties the two sides of the gate together. Interplay between solid and open shapes in the gate indicates a vital lively site reflecting community activity and many processes pursued within the building.
The gate automatically opens and closes.

Photography by John Dean

Works on Paper: Transformed to Art Objects

Installation for exhibition at Ferguson Gallery at Loyola/Notre Dame University Library.

My work focuses on interpreting games of Scrabble that I have played. The structure of a finite set of conditions (a board of 225 squares on a 15x15 grid and 100 letters) and the subsequent permutations that result are compiled and visually interpreted. In the case of NN, I responded to the exhibition space. NN is compiled of 98 pages and each hanging strand is a chapter, if you will. The narrative (haiku, or more correctly, senryu) is strung amongst the illustrations.

Meditation on Gray

As Baltimore struggled in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray, April 2015, I focused myself on Freddie Gray and his life, which seems like a catalog of what must change in Baltimore. I began a brush meditation using classic watercolor practice to mix gray using complimentary colors (red/green, yellow/purple, blue/orange) in ascending intensity. Four panels became the foundation of an installation, with an unfinished portrait framed in a Gray box, with Gray bandanas for viewers to take away and wear and use. This work will never be for sale.

CHOCO·PIE PROPAGANDA

CHOCO·PIE PROPAGANDA
MINA CHEON AKA KIM IL SOON
From North Korea with Love

January 23 - March 1, 2014
Ethan Cohen New York
251 W. 19th St.
New York, NY 10011

Ethan Cohen New York proudly announces the solo exhibition by artist Mina Cheon aka "KIM IL SOON" in her North Korean artistic persona. Her paintings showcasing polipop (political pop art) and her installation "EAT CHOCO·PIE TOGETHER" open Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 6 pm at Ethan Cohen New York, 251 West 19th Street in New York City.

Radical Home

A swarm of ladies crawl, sneak, squat, and drag themselves along a pillow's desert landscape. Traversing the tricky terrain of the hairbrush, bow, and plug, each is a specter, a mouse, trapped or self-possessed, pacing her prison or marking her territory.

Baltimore City People

I have lived most of my life in one city or another. I'm obsessed with streetscapes, and feel edgy and slightly lost if I'm not around concrete for extended periods. But in the end, it's the people who are in those streets that make a city what it is. Although I didn't move to Baltimore until 2012, I visited my Grandparents here going back as far as the 1960s. And I feel that history informs the pictures. Although, I'm not sure exactly how it informs them.

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