Missoula Art Museum presents Mimi Jung's large-scale woven and cast sculptures in new exhibition
MISSOULA, MT.- The Missoula Art Museum presents Mimi Jung: Just Between Us, a new exhibition of large sculptural works that stretch the traditional art of weaving from tapestry and large sculptural woven works to experimental materials and forms, including cast metal. The public is invited to meet the artist at a March First Friday celebration.
Mimi Jung uses intricate and new techniques and unexpected materials to explore her personal experience and the interplay of external relationships. The sculptures combine industrial materials and organic forms to dominate large spaces while remaining airy. Across the works in the exhibition, neons play harmoniously with bright white, Kraft brown, mineral blues, and metallic black.
The artists says that she, “examines multiple dimensions of self-preservation, particularly as it relates to private and public self-representation, and the ways in which those depictions are manifest through social and cultural mores. . . . constructed forms, with their voids and translucencies, are fixed but never static; the viewer actively controls the experience of transit around and through them—reflecting inward on their own behaviors.”
Jung has public artworks installed in Gwangmyeong, Korea, Los Angeles, CA, Kohler, WI, and in several locations in New York City. She has mounted gallery exhibitions throughout the U.S. and internationally, including Nina Johnson in Miami, Harper’s in New York City, Helen J in Los Angeles, Les Gens Heureux in Copenhagen, KIAF in South Korea, Somerset House and Cadogan Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
Born in Korea and now based in Montana, Jung earned a BFA at the Cooper Union and attended HGK Basel and Städelschule for postgraduate studies.
Founded in 1975 and accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1987, MAM is emerging as the leading contemporary art museum in the Intermountain West. MAM is situated on the traditional, ancestral territories of the Séliš (Salish or “Flathead”) and Ql̓ispé (upper Kalispel or Pend d’Oreille) peoples in Missoula, Montana, USA. MAM is committed to respecting the indigenous stewards of the land it occupies. Their rich cultures are fundamental to artistic life in Montana and to the work of MAM. MAM is a fully accessible, free public museum boasting eight exhibition spaces, a library, and an education center in the heart of Missoula’s historic downtown.
Mimi Jung: Just Between Us is on view at Missoula Art Museum through Apr. 13, 2024.
