Herion Park
Herion Park is a Korean-American visual artist, sculptor, fashion designer, professor currently teaching art and fashion design at Miami-Dade College, Miami FL.
Immigrating to the US in the 1980’s, she received a BFA in Painting and Fashion Design and an MDes in Fashion, Body and Garment at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in an expansive list of significant exhibitions and has been awarded multiple residency invitations, among them The Vermont Studio, Hambidge and Yaddo.
Her artistic means of expression have encompassed and integrated varied media. Her work is informed by the immigrant experience and the spiritual and biological ties of family. As a naturalized citizen she has encountered unique life challenges that are especially relevant in today’s divisive demographic conditions. Both her personal experiences and, those of her many young students from immigrant families, are transmuted into her art. Her most current work speaks of matters of sorority and motherhood through forms emanating from spiritual inspiration and conjured up from contemplation on familial memories.
She has lived in Seoul, Chicago, New York, Miami and currently makes Sarasota County Florida her residence.
About the Art
Powered with the perspective of a woman blessed by experiences, mostly victorious, by love, desire, loss, and resurrection and using the conjured muse-spirits of my mother and six sisters, my work embraces, ‘Love’, the life force within us and our ‘Desire’ to be one with humanity and to thrive. It mourns the ‘Loss’ of the ability to reach or commune with that love force, because of departure or distance. And, in the end, it celebrates the‘Resurrection’ of that love.
Physical pain accompanies the rigor of the making of my work, but the work does not transmit that pain because perhaps, in a perverse way, I enjoy it. It’s important for me that I use my body in the manipulation of these forms. The pressing and pulling of material is a confirmation of a positive life force and it stamps in permanent witness to determination. Satisfaction and comfort come after the pain. Akin to a life well lived.
The fulcrums on which my soft forms precariously balance are metaphors for the fragile foundations that our lives are built upon. Fragments representing lives intersected by circumstances both benevolent and fearful, they are ultimately triumphant stories.
Herion Park is a Korean-American visual artist, sculptor, fashion designer, professor currently teaching art and fashion design at Miami-Dade College, Miami FL.
Immigrating to the US in the 1980’s, she received a BFA in Painting and Fashion Design and an MDes in Fashion, Body and Garment at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in an expansive list of significant exhibitions and has been awarded multiple residency invitations, among them The Vermont Studio, Hambidge and Yaddo.
Her artistic means of expression have encompassed and integrated varied media. Her work is informed by the immigrant experience and the spiritual and biological ties of family. As a naturalized citizen she has encountered unique life challenges that are especially relevant in today’s divisive demographic conditions. Both her personal experiences and, those of her many young students from immigrant families, are transmuted into her art. Her most current work speaks of matters of sorority and motherhood through forms emanating from spiritual inspiration and conjured up from contemplation on familial memories.
She has lived in Seoul, Chicago, New York, Miami and currently makes Sarasota County Florida her residence.
About the Art
Powered with the perspective of a woman blessed by experiences, mostly victorious, by love, desire, loss, and resurrection and using the conjured muse-spirits of my mother and six sisters, my work embraces, ‘Love’, the life force within us and our ‘Desire’ to be one with humanity and to thrive. It mourns the ‘Loss’ of the ability to reach or commune with that love force, because of departure or distance. And, in the end, it celebrates the‘Resurrection’ of that love.
Physical pain accompanies the rigor of the making of my work, but the work does not transmit that pain because perhaps, in a perverse way, I enjoy it. It’s important for me that I use my body in the manipulation of these forms. The pressing and pulling of material is a confirmation of a positive life force and it stamps in permanent witness to determination. Satisfaction and comfort come after the pain. Akin to a life well lived.
The fulcrums on which my soft forms precariously balance are metaphors for the fragile foundations that our lives are built upon. Fragments representing lives intersected by circumstances both benevolent and fearful, they are ultimately triumphant stories.