ACC Gallery

Solo exhibition featuring work by Joo Solo.

Born in Korea, Joo received her BFA and MFA from Hongik University in Seoul before moving to New York in 1993. At the School of Visual Arts Graduate School, she explored installation and video art, experiences that continue to inform the spatial and reflective qualities of her practice. After working professionally in fashion design as a CAD designer, she returned fully to her own artwork. Since 2010, Joo has been creating paintings on mirrors, using the medium as both material and metaphor to examine themes of identity, memory, and self-reflection. She has exhibited her work in solo and selected group exhibitions in Korea, New York, and New Jersey.

Artist Note
"Mirror-scape"
"The mirror makes us ask fundamental questions and face ourselves." The concept of mirror work is the conflict of time. In other words, images reproduced in the past create conflicts between the inside and outside of the work, along with images that are now seen in the mirror. The confrontation of dynamic mirrors of three-dimensional space and two-dimensional static paintings goes further back, repeating Narcissus' agony of wanting to fix his own shadow reflected in the water and own it forever.

The mirror is the window of truth and the object of the spear itself is naturally the object of destruction of the wall. It is only when I intentionally move that the spear can exist as a 'frame drawing the world in my own way'. Eventually, the view outside the window serves as a mirror that reflects our lives. I paint with a feeling of looking at others beyond reality through the window of my heart and touching their hearts. If you look at me there again, you can find another true me. So I start a conversation with myself in the mirror.