This is the final weekend to view #SupportandDefend with #DavidHowe's work inspired by collaborative artistic practices of #NorthKorea. The gallery is open today until Sunday from 1 to 6pm. Don't miss it!
Georgetown University art professor B.G. Muhn & Founding Director of the Korea Art Forum Heng-Gil Han conversing w/ Howe & @Powhida will explore the differences between propaganda and social commentary through Howe’s interpretation of a practice seldom seen outside #NorthKorea
Space for Saturday’s live event is limited, please #RSVP to [email protected] to attend in person. A live feed of the event will be streamed on IG Live and through a link on our website https://t.co/E3XpV7ukLZ
Georgetown University art professor B.G. Muhn & Founding Director of the Korea Art Forum Heng-Gil Han conversing w/ Howe & Powhida will explore the differences between propaganda and social commentary through Howe’s interpretation of a practice seldom seen outside North Korea
Live event this Saturday 2/26 at 5pm in our gallery at 88 Eldridge St - join David Howe, William Powhida, B.G. Muhn & Heng-Gil Han for a discussion of the influence of North Korean collective painting on Howe’s current exhibition #SupportAndDefend
Fascinated by Kim Jong-Un’s use of the #NorthKorean press to control his image, #DavidHowe reimagines the dictator as a cheerful/menacing Santa Claus figure immortalized as an ornament in the eerie installation “Merry Christmas! Love, Kim Jong-Un” (2021).
Inspired by North Korean #propaganda, #DavidHowe produces collaborative paintings in the style of those created for Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un. Take a look at how “Under the Beloved Leader, Let Us Break Head-on the Barriers to our Advance” (2021) compares to its Korean model.
“Concrete Cathedral (Prototype #1)” (2022) was inspired by a story #DavidHowe heard from artist and Albanian PM #EdiRama about the transformation of religious architecture into secular sites of collective activity during #communist rule in the People’s Republic of Albania.
The gallery remains open to the public and the audience is invited to view the documentary as an extension of the show’s explorations of power and image-making.
Shaoul+Howe has commissioned artist Guy Richards Smit @studioGRS to produce a documentary short feature on artist and gallery co-owner David Howe and his inaugural exhibition “Support and Defend”.
#DavidHowe based the setting for “The Beloved Leader Shares the Struggle of the Heroic Engineers” (2021) on a real #Facebook campus cafe. The details of the scene are modeled on reality... except #MarkZuckerberg probably doesn't serve the coffee.
Shaoul+Howe is pleased to present “Support and Defend” an exhibition of works by gallery partner & founder #DavidHowe curated by @powhida on view now until March 6
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