Kala Fellowship Artists' Talk: Youngsuk Suh and Fran Young

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }

Kala Fellowship Artists' Talk: Youngsuk Suh and Fran Young

Location: Kala Gallery

Date: Thursday, April 14^th, 2011

Time: 7:00 pm.

Kala’s Fellowship program includes an annual series of artists talks presented by current Fellows during their studio residencies. Kala's nine Fellows for 2010-2011 were selected by Kala Directors in association with juror Jens Hoffman, Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art at California College of the Arts. This is the first talk in the series that will be presented over the next several months.

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Kala Gallery, 2990 San Pablo, Berkeley, CA 94702

http://kala.org

Youngsuk Suh | Davis, CA

Youngsuk Suh’s large format photographic

series of monumental landscapes explore his

perception of nature as a highly engineered and

civilized institution. Youngsuk’s work has been

presented at Haines Gallery, Santa Barbara

Museum of Art, SF Camerawork, The Museum

of Fine Arts in Boston in addition to numerous

venues in Korea. He attended Pratt Institute

and received his MFA from the School of the

Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is currently

an Assistant Professor of Photography at U.C.

Davis and received The James Irvine Foundation

funded Fellowship at Kala.

Frances Young | Brighton, United Kingdom

Frances Young is an experimental video artist

whose work meshes analogue and digital media

to record and re-construct transitions through

time and location. Her work possesses a visual

quality of dark, urban grittiness coupled with

abstract transitory moments and a sense of

fading memories. Frances received her MFA from

Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts

London. Her work has been presented in numerous

venues and screenings in the UK, Europe

and the USA . She was recently in residence at

Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY.

Frances's residency is

supported by the

National Lottery through

Arts Council England.