March 15, 2006
 

Joon Sung - A new exhibit at JMAM

Cadiz, KY-The Janice Mason Art Museum brings a new art form to Cadiz
beginning March 24 with the opening of "Gazes," time-based, digital
animation and video by Joon Sung.  Korean-born, but currently based in
America, Joon Sung is a new media artist with traditional art background and
Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University. He received his second
masters degree in Computer Art from Syracuse University. He has focused on
digital animation as a medium and subject, with a wide range of techniques
and aesthetic approaches. He shows extended outer limits of his experimental
and multi-disciplinary practice, installation, and time-based media, through
simple expression of complex thought along with essential aesthetic and
intellectual values.
   "Our regular visitors will remember Joon Sung's winning entry mounted in
the lobby during the Juried Show last fall," stated Museum administrator
Paula Lisowsky.  "These animated works are contemplative,
evocative--different from any exhibit we've presented before." 
   "Gazes" will premiere at the opening reception on March 24 from 6:00 PM
to 8:00 PM and will be featured through April 23.  Gallery hours are
Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, and 1:00 PM-4:00 PM on Sundays.  More
information is available by calling the Museum at (270) 522-9056 or by
visiting the website at www.jmam.org.
   The Janice Mason Art Museum is a membership-funded, 501(c)(3) non-profit
community arts center formed in 1998 to bring the arts to the people of
Cadiz, Trigg County and the surrounding area.  The Kentucky Arts Council, a
state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, provides operational support funding
for the Janice Mason Art Museum with state tax dollars and federal funding
from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation
deserves great art.
 

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