January 2019

No Permanence Is Ours:

Jane Brucker and Park Chel-Ho

Opening Reception
Saturday, January 5, 2019 from 6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
BAIK ART: 2600 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034

No Permanence Is Ours is on view through Saturday, February 2, 2019

Jane Brucker Studio is pleased to announce the opening of No Permanence Is Ours: Jane Brucker and Park Chel-Ho at BAIK ART. Brucker will feature her ongoing project, Unravel. Unravel centers on the activities of doing, undoing, and redoing we experience in our daily lives. Hand-knit blankets, sweaters, shawls, and vests are taken apart and re-created in a process that mirrors the compromise and change inherent in life.

Unravel stems from Brucker’s interest in how taking something apart allows for a change of mind and heart. The process is evident in multiple installations incorporating reworked and reconstructed unravelled textiles. At BAIK ART, Brucker moves the piece towards its finale, with Unravel Boxes, a piece she creates by wrapping the unraveled items and placing them into handmade boxes, available for purchase.

In addition to Unravel, the exhibition will also feature selected pieces from Brucker’s bronze work, Notions. Curator, Claudia Bohn-Spector, writes, “her half-finished clothes are but temporary manifestations, inviting us to ponder grief and loss. Her found objects, cast in bronze, suggest our human desire to arrest things, however futile the effort may be...she reminds us that actions, not things or events, are the real ‘forms that bind.’”

Brucker’s accompanying performance at the close of the exhibition will use gentle touch and the principles of the Alexander Technique to work with her materials and to guide participants. The outcome is a recognition of tension patterns that are the result of thought and physical habits. Unravel becomes an opportunity for participants to let go by learning how to generate a feeling of ease and reduce anxiety.

The work of Park Chel-Ho will also be on view at BAIK LA. A talented printmaker and writer, Park Chel-Ho is interested in the significance of nature and the circulation of human life through nature. His work combines paintings with print media.