I grew up hanging out in the back of my mom's dry cleaning store in suburban New Jersey. When we first moved to this area, we were one of just a handful of Korean families in our town. Over the years, this area has become a bustling Korean community. In this work I explore the community I grew up in during a tumultuous time in our family. My mom serves as a symbolic link to my Korean roots as well as to my notion of family. These images are a composite of her world and mine in this space of transition and in between.
Exhibitions iam8bit Gallery, LA, CA, 2013 One Bergen Gallery, Hackensack, NJ, 2011 A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2010 Visual Arts Gallery, NYC, 2007, 2006
