New Exhibits Open at Tarble Arts Center

New Exhibits Open at Tarble Arts Center

Nov 16, 2017

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The Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University announces its exhibit openings on Nov. 18: Jiha Moon: “Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here,” “Living Room” and “In All Around I See.”

Featured in the main gallery, Jiha Moon: “Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here” is a traveling exhibition organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina, in collaboration with the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia. This exhibition, which features over 50 works, demonstrates Jiha Moon’s blurring of the lines between Western and Eastern identified iconography. In her evocative and witty works, Moon explores Western perceptions of other cultures and how perceived foreigners understand the West.

This exhibition is curated by Amy G. Moorefield, Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Taubman Museum of Art, and Mark Sloan, Director and Chief Curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. On view in the eGallery from Nov. 18 to Feb. 4 will be a site-specific installation of work by the Chicago-based collective, Cream Co called Living Room, curated by Rehema Barber, Director and Chief Curator of the Tarble.

 
This exhibition will continue the groups’ signature approach to art making, which juxtaposes art, especially crafted furnishings and plants, creating interactive presentations that produce unconventional economies driven by collaboration. In their work, Cream Co. explores collectivity and individuality, art and living, consciousness and the sensory to cast off the limits associated with these societal notions.

Also opening on Nov. 18 in the Brainard Gallery is “In All Around I See,” this year’s Artist in Education Residency exhibition. Using nontraditional materials, Cohoon’s work flickers between the everyday world and the traditions of the art world. As a result, his works illuminate the tension between man’s compulsion for preservation and the physical reality of deterioration — the archival vs. the ephemeral.

 
Jiha Moon, born and raised in Daegu, Korea, currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Moon received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Korea University in Seoul, Korea. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Asia Society, High Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among others.

Chris Cohoon was born and raised in Charleston, Illinois. As an artist and educator, he has exhibited and taught nationally and internationally. Most recently, Cohoon graduated with a Master of Arts in Art Design Education from the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island.