Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Jeannie Rhyu is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans across painting, printmaking, ceramics, and installation. Rhyu traces ancestral memories and emotional impressions by deconstructing and reimagining her cultural visual traditions, excavating the structural remnants of cultural collective memory. She is especially interested in the displacement and dislocation of collected images and how they become distorted and transformed through translation and across generations.
Having found home by the sea, she is inspired by maritime culture and history of migrant experience that informs her exploration of human’s relationship with the natural world. By researching ancient artifacts, ritual and ceremonial objects from museums, historic photographs from digital archives, and natural histories, Rhyu discovers a symbolic language that connects her to her roots and inspires her future. Throughout Rhyu’s body of work, images including the fathomless ocean, migrating birds, intrepid seafarers, and the night sky recur with the rhythm of memory and experience. From the deep blue primordial waters of generational wisdom, ancestral stories, and personal recollections, Rhyu’s emotional reality emerges, where she bridges the gaps between different cultural understandings through imagination and mythopoesis.