ARTIST STATEMENT
Through my mixed media, project-based sculpture and social practice work, I am committed to integrated approaches to honesty.
Say Ah I description: A feeler gauge’s poetry lies both in its name and the ability of its blades to slip into spaces that are generally overlooked or seemingly nonexistent, like the sliver of a gap between a tabletop and its legs or a window and its frame; the tool embodies these liminal, unseen and unarticulated spaces (or feelings). English and Korean phrases holding emotional and conceptual sense and weight for me alone are etched on generic, ultra-thin feeler gauge blades; if placed like a tongue depressor in my mouth, what would be heard (and how or what is my health?)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jennie E. Park is a South Korean-born, Southern California-based first-generation American immigrant artist, writer and arts programmer committed to integrated approaches to honesty. She has received MOZAIK Future Art Awards, a MOZAIK Future Art Writers Award, a California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship, a California Creative Corps Artist Grant through California Arts Council and Arts Council for Long Beach, and numerous juried exhibition awards including a 2024 Excellence in Medium: Sculpture Award through The Artists Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and a 2022 City of Lancaster Mayor’s Award in the 37th Annual MOAH:CEDAR All Media Show. In recent years, her work has been exhibited at Santa Clarita City Hall (Santa Clarita, CA), Studio Channel Islands (Camarillo, CA), Crear Studio (Santa Ana, CA), Center for the Arts Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, CA), Avenue 50 Studio (Highland Park, CA), SVA Theatre (New York, NY), THE REEF (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Pence Gallery (Davis, CA), Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA), Brand Library and Art Center (Glendale, CA), Treehouse NDSM (Amsterdam, Netherlands), El Camino College Art Gallery (Torrance, CA), Newport Beach Civic Center (Newport Beach, CA), Helen J Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Axis Gallery (Sacramento, CA), among other venues. She has written for several arts publications including Artillery Magazine in Los Angeles, CA, was a 2023 Emerging Arts Leader with the nonprofit Arts for LA and received her MFA in Art and Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts.
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