Metalsmith's work focus of art exhibit

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

 

 

Metalsmith’s works focus of art exhibit 

The Gardiner Gallery's latest exhibit, “Wings: Kinetic Sculpture and Jewelry,” by metalsmith artist Dukno Yoon, explores mechanical structures and their movements, through March 1 in room 109 of the Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts at OSU.

A free reception will be held at the gallery on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 5 – 6 p.m. followed by a lecture from Yoon from 6 to 7 p.m. His wearable kinetic works are intended to exist between jewelry and sculpture. They stand independently while their close connection to the body creates an intimate relationship with the audience. This exhibition draws a body of works from several series, noted for recreating complicated structures and realistic movements of wings. For Yoon, fragile wings constrained and controlled by a machine become a metaphor for how people should perceive nature in modern times.

Currently serving as a visiting assistant professor at Kansas State University, Yoon’s appreciation of incidental beauty is a consequence of his early interest in machines, while growing up in Seoul, South Korea. In the Wings series, he has followed an economy of mechanical forms, avoiding ornamentation and restricting the physical components to slender and linear elements. This formal sparseness is a characteristic of his work. Yoon, treats the machine as something from which to abstract an unmotivated, but nevertheless undeniable, beauty.

Yoon studied as an undergraduate in the Koomin University Department of Metalwork and Jewelry in Seoul. He received his MFA at Miami University of Ohio. The exhibition and all related programs are free to the public.

The Gardiner Gallery is fully accessible and located on the first floor of the Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts at the northwest corner of Morrill Avenue and South Knoblock Street. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from noon 12 to 4 p.m. The gallery is closed for Sundays, university holidays, home football games and installation days. For more information, please call (405) 744-4143 or visit: museum.okstate.edu.

About the Gardiner Art Gallery

First opened in 1965, the Gardiner Art Gallery has become the central place for Oklahoma State University students and faculty to experience the visual arts. It offers a range of exhibitions that stimulate active learning, research and teaching about art. The Gardiner Art Gallery is managed in close collaboration with the Department of Art. Each academic year, we organize a variety of programs, including artist talks, workshops and lectures by art historians and critics.

All exhibitions and programs are offered free of charge to the community, designed for the education and enjoyment of all. The gallery serves as a gateway to the University experience and the vibrant cultural landscape of central Oklahoma. Gardiner Gallery exhibitions and programs are sponsored by OSU Students Fees, College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Institutional Diversity, OSU Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Oklahoma Arts Council.