January 2019

No Permanence Is Ours

Jane Brucker and Park Chel-Ho

Closing Reception + Performance

Saturday, February 2, 2019 from 6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
BAIK ART: 2600 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034

Jane Brucker’s Unravel installation has been on display since January 5, 2019 at BAIK ART, with the meditative works of Korean artist, Park Chel-Ho. At the exhibition’s closing reception on February 2 from 6-8PM, Brucker will conclude her 10-year Unravel project with a performance.

In this final iteration of Unravel, the artist will be accompanied by performers, including Jeremy Hahn and Stephen Beitler. As they work with Brucker’s collection of hand-knit blankets, sweaters, scarves, shawls and vests, the performers reflect on the human experience of taking apart and re-creating one’s life in a constant process of becoming. The meditative atmosphere of the performance is an opportunity for the artist, performers and viewers to collectively and separately reflect on the process of dissolution and renewal.

Brucker, a teacher of the Alexander Technique, often incorporates AT's mind/body practice into her Unravel performances, bringing awareness to tension patterns in the body that arise while undoing or untangling the garment. In this performance, Brucker will be packaging select pieces into customized boxes designed for each unique textile to symbolize a stopping point for the piece. The boxes are part of Brucker’s newest series, Unravel Box.

Unravel, as an installation and as a performance work, has been featured internationally in Japan, Scotland, Germany and the Czech Republic. Nationally, Unravel was performed with groups at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho; Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; and Texas A&M University. In Los Angeles, Unravel has been featured as part of the interdisciplinary arts event, PRISM; at 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica; at the Armory Center for the Arts; and at SPARC in Pasadena. In 2010, Unravel was the subject of an interdisciplinary class at Loyola Marymount University, where Brucker is Professor and Drawing Area Head in the Department of Art and Art History.

The exhibition also features the work of Park Chel-Ho. 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. His handmade book (above) reflects on the topics of hope and despair.