2015 갤러리이안 예술가지원 프로젝트 선정작가전

Christopher Maslon

2016.1.13~1.26


Rocket #9


본 전시는 2014년에 이어 두 번째로 진행되는 2015 갤러리이안 예술가지원프로젝트에서 선정된 5명의 전시분야 작가 중 첫 번째 전시로 크리스토퍼 매슬론(Christopher Maslon)의 전시이다. 그는 Neo-Pop 작가로 실크스크린을 이용해 일상의 사물을 작품 주제로 삼아 ‘우리 일상의 예술화’를 작품에 담아내고 있다. 현대 사회의 인간이 만들어낸 일상의 모든 것들이 가진 의미, 그리고 그것들의 존재 가치를 재해석하고 우리 삶과의 관계에 대한 고민을 아주 경쾌하고 가볍게 표현하고 있다. 하지만 그 가벼움 안에 녹아든 현대인의 정신과 물질의 속성에 대한 작가의 해석은 결코 가볍지 않게 관객에게 조용히 속삭이고 있다. “당신이 가지고 있는, 가지려고 하는 주변의 모든 것들이 당신에게 어떤 의미가 있을까요?”라고....


전시개요

1. 전시일정 : 2016. 1.13 ~ 1. 26

2. 전시장소 : 갤러리이안 (대전 중구 대종로468 이안과병원 1층)

3. 전시부문 : 판화(실크스크린)

4. 작 가 : 크리스토퍼 매슬론(Christopher Maslon)

5. 후 원 : 이안과병원


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EDUCATION

2014 MA ESL Woosong University, Daejeon, South Korea

1997 C.Ed Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

1996 BFA Fine Arts Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA

 

GRANTS/AWARDS

2008 Korean Education Grant

1990 Columbus College of Art and Design Scholarship

1990 Polish American Citizens Scholarship

 

EXHIBITIONS

2016 Solo Exhibition Yian Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea "Rocket#9"

2015 Group Exhibition Daejeon Arts and Cultural Center Gallery, Show "8"

2015 Group Exhibition The Vanderbuilt Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA

2015 Group Exhibition UNESCO World Cultural Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea

2015 Group Exhibition Suite Collaboration, Lina Gallery, Lima, Ohio, USA

2015 Group Exhibition "Japan-Korea International Print Show, Tokyo, Japan

2015 Group Exhibition " Shi-jung-ha-shi-ju": The Hive, ParkingSpace Gallery, SK

2015 Group Exhibition Mirror Mirror, Gallery M, Seoul, South Korea

2015 Group Exhibition "Beyond The Fields We Know" Gallery 1, Daejeon City Hall

2015 Solo Exhibition "Life on the Midway" DAC Gallery, Daejeon

2015 Group Exhibition "Cross-Cultural", APIC Gallery

2014 Group Exhibition Space Ssee Gallery, Daejeon

2014 Solo Exhibition Soft Opening, DAC Gallery

2014 Group Exhibition International Print Show/ Korea-Japan WooYeon Gallery

2014 Group Exhibition Parking Space Gallery "King Seong" Daejeon

2014 Group Exhibition WooYeon Gallery, Korea-Japan International Print Group

2014 Group Exhibition WooYeon Gallery "Made in Korea" Daejeon, South Korea

2013 Solo Exhibition Charmsori Gramophone & Edison Museum, Gangneung, South Korea -(Art work taken for permanent collection)

2012 Group Exhibition, Yee Ri Gallery, Winner, Best in Show, Daejeon, South Korea

2003 Solo Exhibition, Dong Ah Spring Festival Art Show, Daejeon

2002 Solo Exhibition Polaris Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA

1999 Group Exhibition American Society of Botanical Artists, New York, NY, USA

1997 Group Exhibition Cox Fine Arts Center, Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio, USA

1997 Group Exhibition Unicorn Gallery, Bexley, Ohio, USA

1996 Solo Exhibition "Icons" Kinney Hall Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA

1996 Group Exhibition 117th CCAD Student Exhibition

1995 Group Exhibition ROYGBIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

1995 Group Exhibition 116th CCAD Student Exhibition

1994 Solo Exhibition "Gallery On High" Columbus, Ohio

1994 Group Exhibition 115th CCAD Student Exhibition

 

SOCIETIES

2015 Chair Member/ Owner of DAC Daejeon Art Gallery

http://gallerydac.com

2014 KPRIP Korean Printmaking International Residence Program Alumni

2014 Daejeon Arts Collective, Daejeon, South Korea

http://djartsco.org/2014/11/17/featured-artist-christopher-maslon/

Professional Artists Network Korea

http://www.pank.kr/

Daejeon Art Group

https://www.facebook.com/DaejeonArtsCollective

1999 American Society of Botanical Artists

https://www.asba-art.org/

http://asba-art.org/member-gallery/christopher-maslon

 

RESIDENCES

2014 Daejeon Arts Collective "How to make silkscreen 101" Novemeber

2014 KPRIP Korean Printmaking International Residence Program

1989 Worcester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts "Art All State"


Artist Biography

 

Christopher Maslon

Born 1972 and from Monson, Massachusetts, USA. Maslon was the recipient of two American art scholarships and one Korean art grant and received his B.F.A in printing from Ohio's Columbus College of Art and Design in 1996. Maslon received his M.A. degree from Woosong University in 2014. Maslon's work has been seen and published in numberous magazines, newspapers, journals and websites.

 

Maslon is a Neo-POP artist. His refined focus is primarily on serigraphy (silk screen printing) and his mixed media images cross boundaries of the everyday and mundane, mixed with glitz and glam, then soaked in the unfamiliar. Maslon has been influenced by Robert Rauschenberg (mixed images), Peter Max (paint) and Roy Lichtenstein( heavy black lines) all of whom he has met respectively. With credit to artist Andy Warhol for the use of silkscreen as a medium and introduction into the study of Pop Art.

 

Maslon's philosophy is based on the collective. Collective nature of layers of information presented to the viewer to create a new image.

 

Maslon currently serves as a chair member of the Daejeon Arts Collective. Neo-POP artist.

    

     

 

Artist Statement

 

Rockets. The very word of rockets conjures up a plethora of ideas of what they

are and what they represent. What are they exactly? On first view the viewer is shown many surface rocket images. Words, numbers and some small pictures that highlight the works. However, this is not what the work is about. That is what I would like for the viewer to see: only rockets and only surface. 'Surface' or masking or things represents our world in the developed nations. Masked behind the surface of all things are other meanings. The outside veneer doesn't clearly represent the real product, structure or behind the scenes of how it was made.

 

Rockets are a source of crowd cheering excitement upon lift off. Rockets represent great power, money, science, strength and development. Rockets ability to be a symbol of freedom, exploration and an object of admiration. Rockets in these works are just that 'symbols' nothing more.

 

The inspiration for Rocket #9 came because of a song. During the Summer of 2015 after hearing the song "Venus" by singer/song writer Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta). The songs lyrics took me away:

 

[verse 1]

Rocket #9 take off to the planet (to the planet)

Venus

Aphrodite lady seashell bikini (garden panty)

Venus

Let's blast off to a new dimension (in your bedroom)

Venus

Aphrodite lady seashell bikini (get with me)

Venus

 

This song literally became the groundwork for the entire body of silkscreen artworks that a presented today. I started to look at what a rocket was. I questioned my ideal of "What was space?" I looked and researched over 20 years of space exploration from 1950 to 1970.

 

The begins of space exploration is one of: 1) Seriousness. This seriousness that is mixed with 2) mystery of the unexplored and unknown - That was best left up to astronomers and scientists who study this field. This era of the early 1950's was not the common man's land. And little was known about space itself.

 

The 1950s are a time that seemed so "brown paper wrapper"1 still existed in darkness, so simple, and low key.

 

By the early 1960s a restlessness begins to form, specially in the United States, and Russia about space exploration. With the resurgence of pop culture in art, by 1964, space too, started to looked at as a commercial draw to magazines, tv shows and logos yet it still remained left to scientists and astrophysicists.

 

By the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969 by Apollo 11. Rockets and space went mainstream pop culture. Rockets themselves now took on another value, another meaning, another venue. The words "rockets and space" now began to seep into main pop-culture.

 

By the 1970s, the lunar buzz was over. Man had conquered the moon.

 

About the retrospective of art colors and images in the series: They are a direct feeling of the time researched. From serious dark colors of the 1950s and then moving into the fun light hearted electro-pop feel of the 1960s.

     

 

Description of work

 

Neo-POP art is after Pop-art. Neo-POP started in the 1980s and continues today.

Often seen as "making fun of life" Neo-POP offers a space where Pop-art left off.

 

About the technique used in Maslon's work, silk screen on plastic is the main forte.

As the artist broke away from traditional paper as means of printing. He also now makes prints that are completely untraditional.

 

He abandoned silk screen squeegees and instead uses old credit cards as squeegees. He also gave up traditional silk screen paints for use of acrylics. It is his personal belief that "Plastic is now the new paper"2

 

Influence on my work came from what I see around me daily. I always looked at my environment of inspiration in my art. "Pop culture is all around us"3

 

 

Footnote:

1. Quote from Andy Warhol's Documentary "Superstar"; 1990. Quoted from Steven Bruce owner of the Serendipity 3 Bar, NY, NY.

2. Direct quote from Christopher Maslon.

3. Direct quote from Christopher Maslon.




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