The Third Annual Dental Extravaganza

It's time to announce this year's Dental Extravaganza! I'm so excited to once again take part in this incredible event filled with the top professionals in the field including, Dr. John Kois, Dr. Larry Rosenthal, Dr. Ed Mclaren, Dr. Michael Apa , DR. Dean Vafiadis, Dr. Brian Chadroff, Dr. Jay Lerner, Dr. George Blanco, Michael Gelb, and ofcourse myself, the only Master Ceramist!

The third annual extravaganza will be held at the Diplomat Hotel and Resort in Hollywood Florida.

To register contact Nellie or Jackie at 212 794 3552 orto register online just click HERE.

I hope to see some of you there!

Below you will see some more information. It really is a unique opportunity to have so many top level dentists and ceramists in one room to discuss things like Occlusion, Dental Implants, Anterior Aesthetics as well as things like TMJ and Sleep Apnea as it relates to the field of oral design and veneers!

Tuition:

Doctors and ceramists $995.00 ($695.00 early enrollment prior to 12/15/2015)

Students and Staff $99.00

Nova Dental Faculty $300.00

CE Credits: 12

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Or contact 855 689-2911

An Online Archive of Korean Artists in America

I am proud to help sponsor this attempt by the AHL to compile and archive great works by Korean artists, and make them more accessible to all by placing them on an online database. The AHL Foundation has been working toward the success of Korean-American artists in the art capital of the world, New York City. It is also our goal to connect the artists to the public through the artworks, and to educate the viewers to understand and experience Art on a personal level.   

The archive project of AHL Foundation, Archive of Korean-American Artists (AKAA), is a project to record the artworks and information of the Korean-American artists who are affiliated with the foundation. We believe this project will bring the public one step closer to know more about the art world of Korean-American artists. We ask for the support and help of artists and various art institutions for this ongoing project.

The Archive of Korean-American Artists (AKAA) was established in 2013 to collect and preserve crucial archival materials related to Korean-American artists. In 2015, the archive was renamed the Archive of Korean Artists in America (AKAA) to widen its scope and include all artists of Korean heritage working in the U.S. and the Americas.

A three part exhibition series from the Archive of Korean Artists in America titled Coloring Time, Shades of Time and Weaving Time was organized by the AHL Foundation to survey the activities and highlight the achievements of Korean artists in the U.S. The exhibition was presented in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Service New York at Gallery Korea in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Part two of the exhibition Shades of Time was also presented at the Queens Museum in the summer of 2014.

In an effort to make the archive and resources about Korean artists more accessible to the public, the AHL Foundation is currently developing an online archive to be launched in early 2016.

Currently, only the documentation from the three archive exhibitions along with artwork images from the three accompanying catalogues can be viewed at www.ahlfoundation-akaa.org

The Archive of Korean-American Artists (AKAA) sponsored by the AHL Foundation, Korean Cultural Service New York, and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Additional support is provided in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Jason J. Kim Oral Design, BBCN Bank, and Overseas Korean Foundation.

Get To Know Nancy Hwang - The First AHL-Jason J Kim Grant Winner

Artist Nancy Hwanghas been selected to receive the prestigious $20,000 AHL-Jason J. Kim Grant for her upcoming project “Somewhere in America” where Hwang will solicit individuals to submit a description of a journey to somewhere in America. The artist and the invited individual will then take the journey together to discover each other, themselves, and the destination, while exploring biases, insights and local state of affairs. Through the shared primary experience of a journey worth sharing, the artist plans to form an accumulative portrait of America and present it in collaboration with curator Catherina Manchanda.

I cannot express how proud and honored I am to support artists like Nancy.

Overview

The AHL Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the AHL – Jason J. Kim Grant, a biennial grant of up to $20,000 awarded to recognize and support the accomplishments of talented artists of Korean heritage working in the United States.

Purpose

The AHL–Jason J. Kim Grant is intended for mid-career visual artists who have already demonstrated an exceptional capacity in the visual arts and aims to assist these artists in realizing specific projects while building their capacity to sustain their productive long-term careers.

The main purpose of the grant is to support the artist’s creative process and to cultivate innovative and challenging work through financial assistance during key moments in the development of an art project. Two most important criteria for the grant are artistic merit and its impact on contemporary art. An ideal recipient would be a midcareer artist with a significant record of exhibitions and must demonstrate a substantial financial need in executing an impending project.

This is a project specific grant and can only be used for the creation and exhibition/execution of a specific artwork/project. Artists cannot use this grant for their living expenses.

Learn more about this prestigious grant HERE.

Note From the Winner Nancy Hwang

I get by with a lots of help from my friends, some really good ones that both inspire me and lend me support in countless ways. I was off to Copenhagen to visit a couple of them when I received an email about the Jason J. Kim Grant from the AHL Foundation. It forced a last-minute grab for my laptop that I was going to leave behind. How do you request referral letters from super busy people who kick butt in the artworld with a deadline that is just two weeks away? You do it as soon as you have Wi-Fi on the ground. You begin with sincere apologies and thanks and get right to the point so you waste as little of their time as possible. Here is an excerpt from my email that describes the project that will occupy my next 12 months:

The project I’d like pitch for the grant is one I’ve been dreaming about for a while. It’s called Somewhere in America. It will be launched as a public contest where entrants would describe a locations in the US they’d like to visit. Submissions will be accepted in various formats (written, video,

audio) as preferred by contestants. The stipulation is that they must never have visited the proposed location previously and that they must visit it with me. It’s a one-two combo of new place with new person. Each trip will be interesting, and several of these trips together is meant to form an intimate multilayered portrait of the state of our nation today. I think it’s especially timely with the political race for the White House and the re-focus on race politics in the US.

Thank you Kirby Gookin, Paul Ha and Catharina Manchanda for saying yes and extending all the work and support that your yes entails.

Timing is like lighting for an exhibition. In museums, we always say, “It’s lighting, lighting, lighting.” In life, timing is at the core of how it unfolds. Following a period of much transition and loss, this gift from Jason J. Kim comes at a particularly poignant time for me. I would’ve never imagined someone translating their success from advancement in the field of dentistry to supporting artists in a meaningful way. Thank you to Sook Nyu Lee Kim whose passion and vision brings all of us here. My admiration for her runs deep. She knows ---clearly and simply ---how to live to be happy. Thanks to my dearest friends who care for me like family. Thank you to my brother whose only prize from having me for a sister might be that he can liken himself to Theo van Gogh. Thank you always to my parents for giving me the best of themselves and for giving me the world.

SPATIAL VISIONS; THE AHL FOUNDATION 2015 VISUAL ARTS AWARD WINNERS

I wanted to let everyone know that this week there will be an Opening Reception: October 22nd, 6-8pm at ART MORA Gallery 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 for an exhibition that ODNY is co-sponsoring.

From October 22 – November 4, 2015 you can see Spatial Visions which features 4 artist who were the AHL Foundation's 2015 Visual Arts Award Winners. Read below to learn more about the artists and their work and please stop by the reception and the gallery if you live in the area!


Artists: Eunsook Lee/Buhm Hong/Yoosamu/Heelim Hwang

Curated by Hyewon Yi

The Ahl Foundation is pleased to present Spatial Visions: The AHL Foundation 2015 Visual Arts Award Winners, an exhibition by four Korean artists who won this year’s annual competition awards. The three jurors for AHL Foundation’s twelfth annual competition were David Cohen, editor-in-chief and founder of ArtCritical; Alise Tifentale, co-curator of the Latvia Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and Selfiecity project researcher, and Hyewon Yi, Director of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury.

The winners are Eunsook Lee (1st prize), Buhm Hong (2nd prize) and Yoosamu (3rd prize); the Wolhee Choe Memorial Award was bestowed upon Heelim Hwang. Spatial Visions presents these artists’ most current and representative works. Eunsook Lee’s black-light installation, Bound, depicts Manhattan skyscrapers as letters of the alphabet. Buhm Hong’s black-and-white drawings and the video 18 rooms and 6 hallways, based on the same drawings, slowly pan enigmatic interiors populated by columns, staircases, shelves and windows. Yoosamu will present his newest painting, Sun Queen, part of his “Remake Culture” series, which addresses the phenomenon of American remakes of foreign films through incongruous “re-makes” of iconic Western paintings that incorporate elements of Asian anime. Heelim Hwang’s pictorial spaces reflect her multicultural experiences, rich with clashing visual elements of flatness and depth. All four artists explore spatial visions in their chosen artistic medium in which, according to head juror Cohen, “illusion and reality, social experience and interiority” are the common characteristics.

First Prize-winner Eunsook Lee’s site-specific outdoor works channel into intimate messages the power of historically and politically charged places, such as the Berlin Wall and DMZ in Korea. While her mesmerizing light installations are abstract in their minimalistic form, they are emotionally charged with longing and symbolic significance that is deeply personal•members of Lee’s family were stranded in North Korea after the war.

In Unfamiliar Place, Second Prize-holder Buhm Hong<http://buhmhong.com/> delivers delicate and mysterious drawings, installations, and video works that confuse the viewer’s gaze and trap it in a world that is part Piranesi, part Duchamp. Often relying on Renaissance one-point perspective, Hong’s rooms may at first seem familiar, but they are terrifyingly strange at the same time.

Third Prize-winner Yoosamu<http://www.yoosamu.com/> offers ‘database painting’ that possesses the qualities of the Picture Generation of the 1970s and ‘80s, but Yoo’s appropriated images derive from a younger generation’s video games and the Internet. The grandes machines of the pre-Impressionist salons of Paris also reappear in these large-scale paintings with their modern nymphs from Manga and modern warriors from videogames.

Winner of the Wolhee Choe Memorial Award for 2015, Heelim Hwang<http://www.heelimhwang.com/> offers abstraction and figuration that have never been closer than in these fresh takes on geometrical abstractions that suggest a twenty-first century reincarnation of Edouard Vuillard. The paintings’ diverse perspectival schemes and colorful textile-like patterns induce a meditative state in scenes rendered in reverse perspective that originated in the artist’s quest for personal identity within the context of her multicultural and multinational experience.

Established in 2003, AHL Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Korean and Korean-American artists living in the United States by promoting exposure of their work in today’s competitive contemporary art world. In 2004, the foundation created an annual art competition open to all artists of Korean ancestry who are living in the United States.