By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter
Seoul Art Collective, a group of foreign artists living in Korea, is holding a new exhibition this month. The ``Ism'' (pronounced ``iz-uhm'') exhibition opens Nov. 28 and runs through Dec. 13 at Siuter Art Space, Gugi-dong.
Zach Eichelberger, an artist who also curated the exhibition, said the show gathers works of artists with vastly different styles and subjects and celebrates their diversity.
``The title `Ism' came from looking at everyone's work and seeing that we're connected mainly by the art that has come before us. `Ism' is a suffix attached to most of the art movements in history. Most of the artists draw a certain kind of inspiration from the elements of art history. I think in those terms, we don't exactly know where we are right now in the present state of art. So it kind of celebrates that dystopia and lack of coherence today. It's like here we are, we're moving on and we're going to ride the wave,'' Eichelberger told The Korea Times.
Participating artists include Courtney Lyn Zach, James Topple, Kim Chang-han, Laine Alexander, Matt Flanagan, Park Jin-seoung, Ryan McLay, Shaun Stamp and Eichelberger.
``We have photographs and digitally manipulated images by McLay, drawings by Topple, acrylic paintings by Kim, photographs by Alexander, and quite a lot (of different works) in between,'' he said.