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Kala Art Institute is excited to present artist talks by 2012-2013 Kala Fellows Koo Kyung Sook and Margaret Leininger. Kala’s Fellowship Program includes an annual series of public programs presented by current Fellows during their studio residencies. The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
KOO KYUNG SOOK
Koo Kyung Sook was born in Seoul, South Korea and currently lives and works in Sacramento, California. After graduating from Hong Ik University, Seoul (BFA 1983), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 1985), Koo attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan (MFA 1987). From 1989 to 2010 she was a Professor of Art in the College of Fine Arts and Music at Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea. In 1999 she was invited for a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, and in 2002 she was awarded a Freeman Fellowship by the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. In 2006 she returned to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, supported by funding from Chungnam National University, to initiate a collaborative project with Ian Harvey, an American painter. Since that time she has focused on collaborative works with Harvey that they have exhibited in Seoul, South Korea; San Jose and Sacramento, California; and New York City. The collaborative work is represented by JayJay, Sacramento, California, and the Andrew Bae Gallery in Chicago. Most recently in 2012 she was awarded a Fellowship by the Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California.
Koo has exhibited her work in solo and group shows throughout South Korea and the United States. Her work is in the permanent collections of numerous university and public collections including: Baltimore Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea, and Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea.
MARGARET LEININGER
Margaret Leininger explores alternative economies in which cloth is produced and utilized to express and represent cultural identity in our post-industrial society. While at Kala, Leininger will launch "Industrious Anarchy", a project that explores the artist's production of textile objects as a form of protest against foreign produced goods, tariff laws, the damaging environmental impact of textile manufacturing. Leininger is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University and is a recipient of several artist project grants from both the Illinois Arts Council and the Arizona Commission and the Arts.
