Sculptor Sui Park’s Floating Imagery on View

Sui Park's PomPom is part of the exhibition Floating Imagery on view at the Cahoon Museum of American Art through November 7


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August 12, 2021

Sculptor Sui Park’s Floating Imagery on View
at Cahoon Museum of American Art


(Cotuit, Massachusetts) The Cahoon Museum of American art announces the opening of Floating Imagery, a collection of vibrant sculptures created by artist Sui Park that are located on the grounds and inside the Museum. The exhibition is a part of the Museum’s annual Streetside art series and remains on view through November 7th.

The largest and most visible of the sculptures is Park’s PomPom, a series of 19 vibrant, brilliantly colored shapes that appear magically suspended among a cluster of blue trees on the Museum grounds. The shapes visually pop like fireworks, evoking celebrations, exuberant moments, and cheerful memories. Additional works, Summer Vibe, nestled in one of the Museum’s patio planters and Synthwave, a cluster on the Museum yard, present groupings of colorful biomorphic shapes that appear animated, as if they are young shoots of plants emerging up from the earth.

In the Museum atrium, Park has installed a grouping of seven glistening white and airy sculptures that are suspended from the ceiling and appear the float in the air. The artwork, Thought Bubbles, is Park’s attempt to capture and visualize the dynamic nature of human thoughts in an intricately woven web.

Park creates the artworks by meticulously weaving and connecting white, black, and hand painted industrial cable ties, transforming them into organic and biomorphic forms. Inspired by both the natural world and the human experience, Park seeks to capture and encapsulate subtle but continuous changes in the evolution of emotions, memories, thoughts, and expectations. By using mass-produced industrial materials to create these organic forms, the artist adds a mystical or illusionary feature to her work.

Park first discovered cable ties while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design when she was seeking a versatile material to create large, sturdy, yet airy forms. Drawing on her fiber arts background and using basketry making patterns and techniques, Park creates small units that she builds up systematically to construct the large scale works.

Park is a New York based artist born in Seoul, Korea, exhibits internationally, and holds a BFA in Environmental Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MDes in Interior Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design as well as an MFA and BFA in Fiber Arts at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. Her work was recently selected for the public art exhibition, ‘RE:GROWTH’ currently on view in Riverside Park in New York City.

Find information about the exhibition HERE
Exhibition images are available HERE

The Cahoon Museum of American Art is located at 4676 Falmouth Road (Rt. 28) in Cotuit, MA. For more information, visit Cahoonmuseum.org or call (508) 428-7581. The Museum hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm.

Media Contact:
Annie Dean, Special Projects Consultant, adean@CahoonMuseum.org,
508-428-7581, x3
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