SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 16: Start Planning Your Trip to NYC Now for My Fall Education Day!!!!

Sure we just started Spring, and Summer seems a lifetime away - but there's something exciting coming this Fall that you should be putting on your calendars right now! I will be holding a one-day educational event that will help you grow your practice systematically with the help of some of the most esteemed figures in the field of dentistry! First, here's the date, time and place of the education day:

Date: October 16, 2015

Time:  8-5pm

Credits: 7

Place:  Marriott East Side

525 Lexington Avenue

And just who will be presenting?

Speakers:

Jason J Kim, CDT

Dr. Marc Lowenberg

Steven Anderson

If you're not familiar with my two guests, you should be. The information they hold is invaluable to your own practice!

Dr. Marc Lowenberg is a top cosmetic dentist who has transformed the smiles of many of the world's best-known actors, models, rock stars, authors, and other public figures. Since the 1980's, Dr. Lowenberg been at the forefront of the field. His practice overlooking Central Park in the heart of New York City is best known for its "smile makeovers" - where porcelain veneers transform the teeth to create, as the doctors like to put it, "a perfectly imperfect smile" - but also offers other cosmetic procedures, including bonding, bleaching porcelain fillings, gum lifts to reduce a gummy smile, and implant restorations. Learn more about him on his website HERE.

Also joining me will be behavioral physicist Steve Anderson. He is the founder and president of the Total Patient Service Institute which specializes in implementing the highest level of patient service and communication skills in dental practices. He is the man to help you and your team build your practice. For over twenty years he has spoken at major industry meetings and conventions in North America, Australia and the United Kingdom, conducted hundreds of seminars, and worked with thousands of businesses and organizations to increase their productivity and profits. His combination of behavioral physics, high energy, humor and every-day application makes him one of the highest rated speakers at every venue where he appears. He has written over 100 articles for industry publications, authored 5 books, and produced dozens of audio and video learning programs. Learn more about him on his website HERE.

This lecture is specifically geared toward those most busy and unable to attend some of the multi-day lectures and workshops I take part in over the year. In just 1 day you will learn a vast amount of material that will help you grow your practice. I hope you can make it! 

This is a unique opportunity that will not be available again any time soon! more details to come but start planning now!

To hold your spot contact Marcello Allegra to inquire: mallegra@jjkda.com or call 516-829-4933 ext. 205

Aesthetic Advantage Hands on Continuum at NYU

It's that time of year again! Jason J Kim Dental Aesthetics is a proud sponsor of the Aesthetic Advantage Hands on Continuum at NYU on 4/17 & 4/18 and 5/15 & 5/16.

This is a rigorous course where you will learn from the very best in the field of Oral Design including my beloved colleagues Dr. Michael Apa and Dr. Larry Rosenthal. Check out the schedule of events below.

To learn more and register visit Aesthetic Advantage HERE.

"Luminous Coordinates" Exhibit April 2-17th

Five artists of Korean heritage will be on display from April 2 – April 17 at the Hutchins Gallery at Long Island University's Post Campus in a new exhibit entitled "Luminous Coordinates" thanks in part to the sponsorship of Jason J Kim Oral Design New York. I have teamed up with the AHL Foundation to help make this important cultural event a reality.

The artists who will be featured are:

Zaun Lee, Sungwook Jake Seo, Zin Helena Song, Yusam Sung, JooYeon Judy Yang

I am so excited for the opening reception , which is Saturday, April 4, 3-5pm and hope some of you can make it. The address for the Hutchins Gallery is 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville, NY 11548. This exhibit is curated by Eun Young Choi and is meant to " explore human relationships and complex social phenomenon in visually colorful metaphors that range from minimalist abstract paintings to multi-layered collages."

Read more about the exhibition below and make time to check it out!

"The artworks act as interwoven pieces of the puzzle that combine Eastern and Western traditions as they interpret and define fascinating and intricate narratives of the human condition in order to find coordinates to anchor themselves within the ever changing contemporary world.

Yusam Sung’s “Arrows” series are austere minimalist paintings composed of frenzied and chaotic scribbles, which reference the uniquely defined directionality of arrows, yet explores the complexities of our lives and the world that may not be so unidirectional or orderly. Sung is interested in examining the duality of order and disorder inherent in human life and the challenge of defining what that means. His work often re-examines art history and reinterprets the purpose of familiar objects.

Zin Helena Song’s sculptural paintings are composed of vibrant geometric planes. Though abstract in their final form, Song’s paintings develop out of line drawings and are informed by the fragmented urban landscape. Song's interests lie in the interaction of color, shape, space, and geometry as the polygonal planes meet and create unexpected effects. Song views these phenomena as metaphors for people and society.

JooYeon Judy Yang's “The One Nation Banknote Series” is an ongoing project that deals with the idea of Utopia and the end or beginning of the world. The intricate collage made of real international banknotes act as currency for a fictional country called the One Nation. Taking its cue from myths, religious stories as well as reality, Yang's fanciful narratives utilize the utopian symbols that each unique bank note carries within them, the often hidden and forgotten historical social catastrophes and the exploitation of the social and economic weak.

Zaun Lee's paintings and drawings utilize the grid as a starting off point and a practical tool to efficiently shape and understand contemporary society in physical and symbolic ways. She considers the grid a compositional unit of individual pixels as it is often used in postmodern technology and internet media and by manipulating, reducing or expanding the grid units, she explores the dual functions of mathematic system of division and segmentation that simultaneously functions as connecters to unify individualization, differentiation, multiplicity, and divergence. Lee's beautifully sublime surfaces are filled with both architectural precision and expressive drips.

Sungwook Jake Seo's work is inspired by his experience in the laundromat. The daily chore can tell myriads of stories through its distinct textiles and colorful folds that come together to form a harmonious pattern just as different races, cultures, beliefs, and personalities come together and commingle in our society. Traces of people's lives and stories remain on the clothes and as these clothes are washed and neatly folded, they came to symbolize the people’s hopes and dreams for the future. Seo views the folded cloths as stand-ins for the diverse aspects of daily life that he encounters in the city.

Eun Young Choi is a New York-based independent curator, museum educator, artist and arts administrator originally from Seoul, Korea. She holds a MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Choi has organized exhibitions and performance events in collaboration with various organizations including the New Museum's IDEAS CITY Festival, National Academy Museum, United Nations Headquarters, Asian American Art Centre and Arario Gallery New York. Her exhibitions and programming have been featured in the New York Times, New York magazine, VOGUE magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Artcritical and numerous other media outlets. Her most recent project is a feature in Culturehall (http://culturehall.com/feature_issues.html?no=118)."

"NonSelf/NonSite" Exhibit at the Coohaus Art Mora

Another important art event sponsored by jason J Kim oral Design NY! This time it's a our-woman exhibition curated by David Cohen entitled  "NonSelf/NonSite" featuring the works of Carla Gannis, JeeYoung Lee, Katherine Mangiardi, and Yooah Park.

So wonderful to be working yet again with the AHL Foundation on this important exhibit.

 On view from March 19 to April 1, 2015 at the Coohaus Art Mora (547 West 27th Street, Suite 307, New York, NY 10001)

Read below for more on the artists and curator David Cohen! Hope you can all find time to check it out!

About the Exhibit:

Working in modes between photo-based or digital technologies and more traditional, handmade expression, the artists explore issues of the projection or negation of visage within found or constructed environments.

All of the artists have, at times, worked with their own facial features but in each instance in disguised, veiled, camouflaged or displaced aspects.  None of the artists appear to use themselves as means of self-exploration, but rather as vehicles for understanding the potential or actuality of perceptual diminution of distinct identity.  Of related significance, each artist deliberately blurs boundaries between traditional and innovatory mediums and accepted or subverted conventions of portraiture.

Carla Gannis, for instance, has throughout her career actively challenged the divide between digital media and hand-made modes of expression.  For many years she has used her “self” in conceptually and perceptually disrupted avatars as a disembodied presence in the virtual realm, often exploiting the psychologically disruptive relationship between physical and virtual supports.

JeeYoung Lee works in a literal and taxonomical space between mediums, constructing sculptural environments within which she places herself as a camouflaged protagonist.  Her large scale C-prints in turn occupy an ambiguous position between performance and fixed image, sculptural event and cinematic or painterly composition.

Katherine Mangiardi has worked within various mediums to explore the extension, displacement and diffusion of the body in elaborately skilled activities such as lacework and figure skating. She has acknowledged overlooked or undervalued female originality in the historic lace industry through veiled, historically costumed photographic self-portraiture.

The career of Yooah Park has assiduously drawn paths between national tradition and contemporary alienation, incorporating studio painting and ritualistic performance art.  There is an in-built tension in her painterly reworkings of her own photographs of self-conscious social players in which life-like individuality is undone through layered, veil-like whiting-out of faces.

— David Cohen —

David Cohen is editor and publisher of artcritical as well as founder-moderator of The Review Panel which takes place at the National Academy Museum, New York, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, Philadelphia, and is podcast here at artcritical. He was Gallery Director at the New York Studio School from 2001-10 and art critic and contributing editor at the New York Sun from 2003-08. His books include “Serban Savu” (Hatje Cantz verlag, 2011) and “Alex Katz Collages: A catalogue raisonné” (Colby College Museum of Art, 2005).