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Sanghyun Samuel Kim – Surrey Art Gallery: Arts 2008 Exhibition
First year student Sanghyun Samuel Kim was awarded first place in the category Painting on Paper for his work Into the Depth (oil, acrylic, and wax) in the annual juried Arts 2008 Exhibition, organized by the Arts Council of Surrey, in collaboration with the Surrey Art Gallery.
In addition to painting, over the past couple of years, Samuel has been exploring sculpture using found materials to comment on the destructive nature of consumerism. The exhibition features work by both local and regional artists and runs through to September 21, 2008.
ARTS 2008 Juried Exhibition 1st Place Award , Sanghyun Kim
by reporter Jaeyeon Lee, Chosun Ilbo Vancouver July 5, 2008
기성작가들과 경쟁, 최연소로 최고상 수상 
‘ARTS 2008’공모전 1위한 김상현군
9월 에밀리카(Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design)로 진학할 예정인 한인 학생 김상현군이 써리 아트갤러리(Surrey Art Gallery)가 주관하는 ‘ARTS 2008’ 공모전에서 회화부문 1위를 차지했다.
‘ARTS 2008’ 공모전은 1974년부터 평균연령 35세 이상 60세까지 캐나다 전역에서 활동 중인미술가들이 참가하는 대회로, 올해 24년의 역사와 높은 수준의 권위를 자랑한다. 올해 만17세가 된 김군은 이번 공모전 최연소 참가자로 기성 작가들의 작품과 나란히 겨뤄 최고의 상을 받게 되어 그 의미가 더욱 크다.
김군은 “학생들끼리 경쟁하는 대회가 아닌 오랜 시간 미술을 전공했거나 화가로 활동하고 있는 성인 작가들의 쟁쟁한 작품 속에서 1위에 입상할 줄은 전혀 예상하지 못했다”며 시상식에서 캐네디언 성인 화가들 가운데 최고상을 받을 때는 “가슴이 뭉클했다”고 수상소감을 밝혔다.
■ 오일과 콜드왁스 이용해 3개월 걸려
김상현군의 수상 작품은 ‘into the depth’. 오일과 아크릴, 콜드왁스를 사용해 수영장 내부를 그린 최근 작품으로, 잔잔한 수면의 파장을 편안한 안식처를 갖고 싶어하는 모든 사람들의 마음과 연결시켰다. 상현군은 학교 수업이 없는 주말을 이용해 틈틈이 그린 이번 수상작품을 그리는 과정에서 콜드 그린을 녹여 오일과 섞어 그려야 하는 작업이 까다롭고 물 성분인 왁스가 마르지 않아 촛불을 켜서 말리는 등 굳히는 과정에서 약간의 어려움을 겪기도 했다. 또한 수영장 내부의 깊이와 빛의 각도에 따라 색깔과 파장이 다양해 겹겹이 표현하기가 쉽지 않아 시작한 지 3개월에 걸쳐 완성시켰다.
최연소 참가자로 최고의 상을 받게 된 상현군이 1위 수상자로 확정된 후 작가의 작품해설을 경청하던 심사위원들은, 수면의 잔잔한 파장과 투명함을 차분하고 섬세하게 잘 표현해낸 그의 작품을 두고 “진짜 네가 그린 그림인가” 반문하며 콜드왁스 표현기법에 큰 관심을 보였다. 그들은 또 “너를 1등으로 뽑는데 어려움이 없었다”는 말로 작품의 완성도에 극찬을 아끼지 않았다.
■ 2005년부터 크고 작은 미술대회 석권
김군은 2008년 대회에서 1위에 입상하기 이전, 2006년과 2007년 대회에서도 연속 입선한 것을 비롯해 그 동안 많은 대회에서 상을 받았다. 그림을 시작한 지 얼마 되지 않아 출품했던 2006년 대회에서 4대1의 경쟁을 뚫고 입선한 후 자신감을 얻어 1위를 꿈꾸게 됐다는 상현군은, 이후 2007년 ‘Prince of Wales Department Award’, 2007년, 2008년 ‘Buschlen Mowatt Teen Scholarship Program’ 대회에서도 연속 입상하는 등 크고 작은 대회에서 두각을 드러내며 지난 주말 2008년 대회 수상자들과 밴쿠버 ‘Buschlen Mowatt Gallery’에서 전시회도 가졌다. 이밖에 9학년이던 2005년 쓰나미(Tsunami) 희생자들의 아픔과 작은 희망을 표현한 작품은 밴쿠버 법원(Vancouver Provincial Court) 전시실에 3년 동안 전시되기도 했다.
■ 갤러리 돌아보며 소재 찾아
어릴 때부터 자동차와 자전거 등 바퀴가 달려 있는 모든 움직이는 기구를 좋아하고 특히 미술과 디자인 방면에 소질을 보인 상현군의 장래희망은 자동차 디자이너. 그림을 그리지 않는 대부분의 시간은 자동차 잡지와 자료를 보면서 보낸다. 작품 아이디어가 떠오르지 않을 때는 밴쿠버 갤러리를 돌아보며 소재를 찾는다. 특히 작가가 직접 작품설명을 해주는 UBC 대학 내 전시공간을 자주 가는 편이다. 그곳에서 작품마다 제작과정의 어려움과 그 어려움을 이겨내는 방법 등 선배들의 ‘작가정신’을 배우고 돌아오면 새로운 아이디어가 떠오른다는 것. 미술 외 일반 학업성적도 우수한 편인 김군은 또 지난달 졸업식에서 평균92점 이상의 상위 10%학생들에게 주어지는 최우등상을 받았다. 이재연 기자
jy@vanchosun.com2008년 07월 05일
http://www.vanchosun.com/home2/_news_view.php?scatid=22&sqno=28336
58 juried works in annual exhibition
(Surrey Now Tuesday, July 01, 2008)
Examples of innovation and variety are on view at ARTS 2008, the juried exhibition staged by the Arts Council of Surrey. In its 24th year, the show opened Friday (June 28) at Surrey Art Gallery and continues until September 21. The 58 works were done and submitted by artists from Surrey and around the region. The works range from traditional paintings to contemporary expressions, and "reflect innovation in thinking and use of mediums," according to judges. ARTS 2008 celebrates "the diverse artistic talents of both established and emerging visual artists, generates awareness of their work and plays an important role in their professional development."
Winners have been named in five categories, with the People's Choice Award to be announced once the exhibit closes at the gallery, located at Bear Creek Park. Pat Schendel's Catch the Wave earned first prize in the 3-D Works and Fibre Arts category. "I have been working with crystalline porcelains for 12 years," Schendel wrote in the artist's statement, "and am always excited by the random growth of crystals that are manipulated by temperature control.... I was influenced by a recent vacation to the Marquesas Islands, where I watched surfers riding the waves."
Marie Heath says she was longing for a tropical vacation when she conceived Tropical Punch (winner in the Drawing, 2-D Mixed Media & Printmaking category) on a dreary, rainy Sunday. She wrote: "Tie-dyed tissue papers, small beads and slivers of metallic papers were layered over a base of acrylic inks to produce bursting rainbows of colours."
Top mark in the Photography and New Media category went to David Crocker's For Mem-ry Has Paint-ed This, its title borrowed from the words on the sheet music pictured. "Without the artistic skill of the woman who decorated the shop window with a display that captured my photographic eye," he wrote, "this image would not exist." Sanghyun Samuel Kim's Into The Depth earned first place in the Painting on Paper category, while the Painting on Canvas nod went to Chun Hua Catherine Dong's Multicultural Consistency II.
The other new exhibit at Surrey Art Gallery is Recent Acquisitions: Persona Socialis, a collection of paintings, drawings, photographs and sculpture drawn from the gallery's "small but focused" permanent collection of 380 works. In Recent Acquisitions, works by Susan Edelstein, Toni Latour, Ken Lum and others consider the concept of persona -- "the public identities created through our choices in clothing and actions."
© Surrey Now 2008
Artistic assortment By Sheila Reynolds
(Surrey North Delta Leader - June 27, 2008)
Scot Keefer, assistant preparator, puts up pieces of artwork in the main gallery of the Surrey Arts Centre in preparation for this weekend's opening of the ARTS 2008 juried exhibition.
Colleen Flanagan / Surrey Leader
If it's diversity you seek, diversity you shall find at this year's juried community exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery. In its 24th year, the ARTS 2008 show features 58 pieces chosen by jurors John Cranswick, Brian Foreman and Paulo Majano from nearly 200 submitted by local artists. There are human figures, landscapes, still lifes and abstracts. Subject matter ranges from children to birds, trees to boats, reptiles and amphibians to vegetables and fruits.
The media is also extremely varied. While there's most definitely the more traditional uses of materials, like drawings and paintings on paper and canvas, there are also pieces such as a mask made of leather, a photo-transfer on canvas and a woven raffia piece. Artists appear to be mixing things up more and more, with one, Marie Heath, using a rainbow of watercolours on paper, combined with foil pieces and beads. Her piece took top prize in the mixed media category. "We just thought it was so individual," said Foreman, "playing with colour, repetition – even the handling of the materials." Other artists have combined ink and mixed papers, fabric, wax, pastels and charcoal. Pat Schendel's stunning crystalline porcelain pieces were also a prize winners. Inspired by surfers she watched during a recent visit to the Marquesas Islands, Schendel's series of five brilliant blue wave-shaped bowls are perfectly uniform with a sparkling turquoise glaze. Other even more unique works include a tall table-top stained-glass lamp by Margaret Billings and Allanah Atley's intricately beaded walking stick topped with bone, which she explains in her artist's statement is of Aleut (Alaskan Inuit) origin, with every bead having been blessed. Stephen Welther submitted something the local show has never received – an inlaid stone piece. The landscape scene has creme, burgundy and green-toned stones comprising rolling hills, trees and a small assembly of black and white sheep. "There's a kind of naive quality to it, which is kind of cute," said Foreman. Cam MacDonald, who was included in last year's exhibition, again has a humorous canned fish piece in the show – this one called Canned Salmon (SIC) and consisting of large white-labeled cans with "Diced Barreleye" in black type.
From the 58 pieces, jurors chose the top three in five categories. Winners included:
Category 1 (Painting on Canvas)
1st - Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Multicultural Consistency II, acrylic l
2nd - Anna Plesset, A1, The Vancouver Sun, oil on canvas
3rd - Mary Frances Batut, Sacred?, acrylic on canvas
HM - Polly Faminow, Woman & Dog, acrylic on canvas
HM - Sean Mills, Taipei Green, oil on board
Category 2 (Painting on Paper)
1st - Sanghyun Samuel Kim, Into the Depth, oil, acrylic & wax
2nd - Lorelei Green, Building the Past, watercolour & dry brush
3rd - Becky McMahon, Bamboo Window II, watercolour & ink
HM - Kyungji Kang, Untitled, acrylic on paper
Category 3 (Drawing, 2-D Mixed Media & Printmaking category)
1st - Marie Heath, Tropical Punch, mixed
2nd - Cam MacDonald, Canned Salmon (SIC), ink on paper on can
3rd - Brenda Peacock, Floodplain, encaustic & oil bar
HM - Jo-Ann Sheen, Prep Time, monoprint
HM - Stephen Welther, Landscape, stone
Category 4 (3-D Works and Fibre Arts)
1st - Pat Schendel, Catch the Wave, crystalline porcelain
2nd - Margret Billings, Spring 1, stained glass
3rd - Dianne Harding, At the Edge of October, fibre
HM - Michelle McCutchon, Rise of Dawn, alabaster
Category 5 (Photography and New Media)
1st - David Crocker, For Mem-ry Has Paint-ed This, photography
2nd - Gabor Gasztonyi, William Deng Family, pigment print
3rd - Milenko Grgar, Tatarus, cyanotype
HM - Joci Sirak, Staircase, Casa Batllo, giclee print
ARTS 2008, a collaboration between the Arts Council of Surrey and the Surrey Art Gallery, runs until Sept. 21 at the gallery, located at 13750 88 Ave. For more information, call 604-501-5566.
Into the Depth, oil, acrylic and cold wax on paper
ARTS 2008 1st Place Award in painting on paper
ARTS 2008 show features 58 pieces chose by juros Juhn Cranswick, Brian Foreman and Paulo Majano. This 24th juried exhibition runs June 28-September 21, 2008 at Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC Canada.
http://www.surrey.ca/Living+in+Surrey/Arts/Surrey+Art+Gallery/Exhibitions/Exhibitions+-+Current.htm
Reach Out 2007 oil
Color Pencils 2007 oil
Buschlen Mowatt Teen Scholarship Exhibition 2008
With Art Umbrella instructor
brief artist's talk to Mr. Mowatt and guests
With 15 scholarship students, 
installation view
The Path to Maturity, mixed media sculpture 2008
Signal summer 2007 masking tape & gel medium
Artist Statement (Waste 2 Go)
with Arts Umbrella instructor Suzy Birstien
15 teen scholarship students and Suzy Birstien
with Mr. Barrie Mowatt, Buschlen Mowatt Gallery
Waste 2 Go, mixed media sculpture 2007
Light 2006 charcoal
Symbol M, McDonald
Extreme Power Vacuum 2005 pencil & color pencil
