10/13/2010 – Exhibition: HYONG NAM AHN (October 27 – November 24)

Exhibition: HYONG NAM AHN
October 27 – November 24
Gallery Korea of Korean Culture Service NY
(460 Park Ave, 6th Floor)
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 27, 6 – 8 PM

Gallery Korea presents a special exhibition by the sculptor HYONG NAM AHN. This exhibition features AHN’s installations, which he composed of visual idioms of his own interpretations of western music, using colors, shapes, and lights.

Hyong Nam Ahn (b 1955, Korea) earned his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980. Inspired by Kinetic Art in the 1960s, his sculptures integrate lights, sounds, and movements. Ahn has received numerous commissions for public sculptures from notable institutions and corporations such as McDonald Corporation in Kirkland, WA; The Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art & Culture, Baltimore, MD; and McCormick Place Donnelly Hall World Convention Center, Chicago, IL.