Fern Hill Field Trip with Re Jin Lee to view her current installation On the Grounds 2024 at Al Held Foundation
Join Fern Hill Project for a special Field Trip to Al Held Foundation in Boiceville, NY with ceramic based artist and Fern Hill member Re Jin Lee to view her current installation by River Valley Arts Collective (RVAC) On the Grounds 2024.
Al Held Foundation is not open to the public but we will be able to view the installation with Re Jin Lee on a guided tour from 10-11:30am. You are welcome to meet our group at Al Held or meet at 8am at Fern Hill (401 Pea Pond Road, Katonah) to drive up in carpools.
The visit to Al Held will be followed by an informal lunch (at your own expense) in nearby Kingston, NY. We will plan to return back by 4pm.
This event is free but please RSVP below.
About the Installation:
On the Grounds includes the work of four artists: Natalia Arbelaez, Nicole Cherubini, Re Jin Lee, and Katy Schimert who are each presenting multi-part installations within the landscape that surrounds the Al Held Foundation studio complex. Although conceived and presented as discrete, independent projects, they are united by material, context and distinct interpretations of what can be considered totems.
All four artists are working with clay but with very different approaches, forms, and intentions. Their works are framed by a landscape created by Al Held over a period of 40 years and they respond to, and are to be viewed within, this shared site that they reinterpret and recast for their own purposes. They do not hide or blend in with their surroundings but rather actively engage features of the natural and built environment, collaborate with the plants and animal life that inhabit the property, and employ site lines and visual relationships that enhance their particular meaning and convey specific intent. As objects crafted by artists within a landscape created by an artist, they exist as iconic and highly evocative symbolic structures in conversation with the site they occupy.
About Re Jin Lee:
Re Jin Lee’s work is a unique assembly of individually rolled-out clay slabs and coils created by a 'hand and clay' collaboration inspired by the contemplative process of ceramics and belief in the power of simplicity. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, and of South Korean heritage, Lee draws inspiration from the amalgamation of modern Brazilian architecture, such as the works of Oscar Niemeyer and Lina Bo Bardi, Portuguese colonial architecture, and traditional Korean arts. Initially venturing into the field of fashion design and styling while residing in the United States, she eventually discovered her passion for art and design. Her recent solo and two-person exhibitions titled In Bloom (2023), The Sublime and Formed (2022 and 2021) were curated by Cas Friese at Arden + White Gallery, New Canaan, CT. Lee’s work has been included in group exhibitions Where Land Meets Sea curated by Jane Yang D’haene, Stroll Garden, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Art + Nature + Home, curated by Kate Orne for Upstate Diary at Foreland, Catskill, NY (2021); and Pictures and Vessels curated by Rami Kim, Keystone Gallery, Scott City, KS (2015). Lee earned her degrees in Art, Fashion, and Design from FASM (São Paulo), Central Saint Martins, London College of Design (London), and Istituto Europeo di Design (Milan).