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| Sung-Ho Choi |
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My America and American
Pie
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Completion Date:
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1996
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Medium:
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Ceramic tile and Silkscreen
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Dimensions:
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n/a
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Location:
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Intermediate School 5
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Address:
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50-40 Jacobus Street, Queens
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Architect:
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Richard Dattner and Partners Architects
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Sponsor Agency:
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Board of Education
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Design Agency:
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School Construction Authority
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Sung-Ho Choi's murals
at I.S. 5 depict aspects of twentieth-century American history that have shaped
the country's experience and identity. My America, located on the rear
wall of the auditorium lobby, is a map of the United States comprised of
sixty-five jigsaw-shaped tiles, each containing media images of major events,
including Martin Luther King, Jr. marching in the streets and children visiting
the Vietnam War Memorial. American Pie
is a representation of the American flag silk-screened with images appropriated from community newspapers in many different languages.
About the Artist...
Born in Seoul, Korea, Sung-Ho Choi has lived and worked in New York City since 1981. He studied art at Hong-Ik university in Seoul, Korea and Pratt Institute in New York. His most recent exhibitions include the Asia Society in New York City's, Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, a solo exhibition at Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Across the Pacific: Contemporary Korean and Korean American Art at Queens Museum of Art, New York, and Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
Artist Quote...
As a bi-cultural artist, I have depicted the experience of being the "other," of contrasts and complexities of a minority exhisting within a majority. Immigrating to the U.S. had a profound effect on my art, and I believe it has expanded my themes and medium, which is demonstrated by the fact that my art stands now in contrast to other Asian artists treating similar themes, as well as the fact that I have begun working on public projects. My artistic goal is to pursue the theme of contrasting identities in a society that is becoming more multi-cultural, and how to define this in "American" terms.
-- Choi, 1997
