Bo Young Choi and Hye Young Kim, both recent fiber-art graduates of MFA programs at University of Washington, Seattle, and Washington University, St. Louis, respectively, will present their new work.  Hye Young Kim’s paintings offer an interpretation of our daily routines with brightly colored yarn applied to canvas in circular patterns.   

Bo Choi will install the piece seen below titled “Second Skin” that she terms “action art”.  These large pieces represent a removable skin that are the first barrier to the naked body and which contain the individual’s desire for social connection.”  Dancers will wear her skins as they perform.

Live music will be provided by James Whetzel and Sebastian Lange who will perform a set of sarod, violin and beats, happily mixing Indian classical ragas, electronica, African polyrhythms, and Western Classical music, with improvisatory gusto. They will be joined by percussionist Viren Kamdar from the group Mangis Khan for a second set which will include material from their groups Mean Deep and Das Dhoom.

Claudia Smith’s ephemeral photography disembodies objects from the natural world rendering them in the abstract.    Mundane seed pod become a beautiful abstract mosaic.  Through the use of color negative processing her landscape images become otherworldly.