Artwork Description
Jiha Moon – Take Out
Dimensions: 6.25 x 4.25 x 4.25″
Year: 2012
Medium: 3-D lithograph
Edition: PP ed. of 100
In her fluid and expressive practice, Jiha Moon combines motifs and techniques from her native Korea with threads from the Western art canon and imagery from the digital age—her work comments on globalization, the fluidity of identity, and the information overload of contemporary society. Moon’s vivid paintings, ceramics, prints, sculptures, and installations combine the visual lexicons of Korean temple painting and folk art with Disney cartoons, restaurant menus, and abstract calligraphic gestures. The results are hazy and dreamlike, with figures and images that seem to dissolve and reform at will. Moon has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Her work belongs in the collections of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the UBS Art Collection, among others.