Images of from the RISD Grad thesis exhibition
Intermedian- A ritual of care, a process of re-seeing, an act of encountering and an examination of value.
2025 - Roadkilled White-tailed deer (Skeleton and Hide), Roadkilled cotton-tailed rabbit (skeleton), found furniture and human detritus from highways and urban streets, found traffic cones, plant material, bronze cast hooves, drop plastic and foam cast skull, process videos of artist.
#art #sculpture #nature #taxidermy #science
Intermedian- a ritual of care, a process of re-seeing, an act of encountering and an examination of value.
This thesis work went through many forms and phases, but in the end the work became a mirror of all the beings and materials that end up on the periphery. The bodies of the “disposable” finally at rest.
2025 - Roadkilled White-tailed deer (Skeleton and Hide), Roadkilled cotton-tailed rabbit (skeleton), found furniture and human detritus from highways and urban streets, found traffic cones, plant material, bronze cast hooves, drop plastic and foam cast skull, process videos of artist.
#art #sculpture #nature #taxidermy #science
Aside - A work I had envisioned for many months over the summer and through the fall. This piece gave me a lot of heartache and drive simultaneously. But it’s here now!
-Coyote Skeleton, Wax, Doll hair, Found Table, Mixed media
#artwork #contemporary #sculpture #wildlife #furniture #wax
The exhibition <Aftermath> is now on view through March 29 at Machines with Magnets.
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the opening and took the time to experience the show.
Artists:
Jungeun Park (@enna0j )
Carrie Kouts (@impossiblyinteresting )
Nahom Ghebredngl (@nahom.ghebredngl )
Maha Mohan (@maha.mohan )
Special thanks to:
Alexandra Reintjes (@artandtheoryspam ) for writing support
Hyein Shin (@shlnhyeln ) for the Korean curatorial statement
Dohee Kim (@doheeikm ) for the poster
Griffin VanHorne (@tensegrity_audio ) for live music
Wenhan Hu (@w.h_h.u ) for photos
Details about the closing event will be announced in mid-March.
Come ready to dance, this time until 1 AM 🥵
Aside -2024
Remnants of discarded and unmourned roadkill, including a re-articulated coyote, a sparrow chick, a broken mug, a discount candle, a Swedish fish, a two legged magazine table and a traffic cone. Other materials include doll hair, wax covered hand towels, casting wax and resin.
I’m working on updating my website and thought I should give this older work a post that isn’t in video form.
360,000 umbilical cords were cut today.
A deer has been struck by a car and met its demise.
What emerges from our hands never leaves the body. Everything we create repeatedly translates its vulnerability.
Our work addresses bodies in the aftermath of events: bodies that exist after irreversible change, after conditions have already been ‘decided’.
This exhibition lingers with the irreversible.
It attends to bodies that are passed over and brushed aside, to lives that were never fully acknowledged as worthy of care; it remains as a state of being.
How we differentiate between bodies, deciding which deserve attention and which do not, ultimately mirrors how we evaluate and treat ourselves.
An abandoned helmet grew skin and gestated life.
Glass and ceramic salvaged bodies from decay.
Lanternflies crushed to death rebirthed into steel.
Aftermath opens this Friday, 1/23 6-9 pm
Curated by Jungeun Park (@enna0j )
Works by:
Jungeun Park (@enna0j )
Carrie Kouts (@impossiblyinteresting )
Nahom Ghebredngl (@nahom.ghebredngl )
Maha Mohan (@maha.mohan )
Special thanks to:
Alexandra Reintjes (@artandtheoryspam ) for writing support
Hyein Shin (@shlnhyeln ) for the Korean curatorial statement
Poster by Dohee Kim @doheeikm
Carrie in the studio. We spent an hour making a mold, accompanied by skeletons, insects, and tea.
Carrie was the first friend I had after coming to Providence. We met on a RISD campus tour, later becoming studio neighbors, classmates, and tea pals. She is an amazing sculptor, a thoughtful TA and a sweet sweet friend.
Documented on March 15, 2025. Fletcher Building, Providence, RI. Polaroid taken on April 4, 2024.
A glimpse of the inner sanctum - I’ve just wrapped up my second to last semester as an MFA grad, and I’m realizing how little time there is left in this space. I’m so grateful to have had a place to let my practice grow and become a home. The studio will always be my favorite work of art.
#artist #studio #sculpture #bones
One of the most amazing field work experiences ever! I got to assist Dr. Chris Richardson survey a maternity colony of Little Brown Bats.🦇 The team is researching hopeful improvements in bat immune response to White Nose Syndrome which has caused massive population declines in the last 10 years. Artistic research is not a neutral or passive act, it can involve actionable work. This was a late, late night I will never forget.
#conservation #bat #wildlife #artist #nature #artpractice #science
I’ve been making some very different work lately 👀 and exploring some materials that excite me. These are some previews of some of the work I’ve been primarily focusing on this semester. We’re back to bones and animals my friends!
(Also side note all the skin and organs are wax and the fur is wool for anyone who get icky feelings towards guts)
Fun little compilation of my original sketches versus how they turned out. I am always surprised when they come out so close to how I imagined them initially.
