Facebook It’s difficult to imagine a gallery that showcases Kong’s work as effectively as a convenience store. Collages are installed tightly in bands near the top and bottom of the garage gallery walls. For theexhibition, Miller drove a sizable collection of Kong’s collages to Tampa and engaged six artists () currently studying at the nearby University of South Florida to curate the exhibition. This prolificacy speaks to a function of Kong’s artwork that doesn’t, and perhaps can’t, find expression in a typical gallery exhibition (or even fully in this relatively atypical one).
As DeviantArt enters its 15th year on the Internet, we want to take a moment befWe use cookies to enhance your experience, analyze site traffic, and for our marketing purposes. So, first of all the shelves of the store, all the shelves, the shelves were kinda empty-like or dirty-like, so I just thought about laying something on the shelves, you know, like the bottom of the shelves, so the merchandise looks nice.”Kong’s collages, initially at least, functioned as adornment or ornamentation.
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Artist , works as a coordinator for the Back Room and facilitates outbound exhibitions of Kong’s work. acts almost as a soap bubble test, revealing where gallery exhibiting and curating fails to make space (literally and dialectically) for a body of work like that of Thomas Kong’s.
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Installation view, Thomas Kong, Fillerup, Coco Hunday, March 26 – May 29, It’s what pairs him so well with Thomas Kong. He worked with GT and then his own Love Bunch sound system and then recorded for King Tubby's Firehouse label, now singing in a similar style to Tenor Saw. 151 Watchers 102.8K Page Views 246 Deviations. That isn’t to say they all blend into each other.
Kong’s work doesn’t seem to deal in terms of exhibitions, series or even individual works of art. The work is supplementary to the shop and its products. The artwork additionally fills an adjacent archival and presentation space known simply as the Back Room.
Born in Kingston, Thomas first recorded as a deejay at Tuff Gong studios in 1982, initially working under the name Junior Kong, named after his father.
ThomasKong. (organized by Dan Miller and curated by Dawn Grayford, Nadia Ivanova, Rhonda Massel Donovan, Libbi Ponce, Jessi Ramirez and Emiliano Settecasi) is on view at Coco Hunday in Tampa, FL until May 29th, 2016.
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Shortly after emigrating from Korea to the United States, began a job as a “pump man” at a gas station where he learned his first English phrase: “Fillerup.” Now, as the title of his current solo exhibition at Tampa’s , the phrase stands in contrast to his decidedly uncluttered collages.
untitled cut-paper collage on manila envelope, c.2010-16, 10 x 13 inches. Twitter
His writing can regularly be found in a variety of regional and national arts publications.
Indeed, much of Miller’s practice seems to be aimed at tugging at the ragged edges of the capital “E” Exhibition. The self-taught artist creates collages using advertising and packaging materials found in his shop and displays them throughout the store. Kong’s collages display an intensely satisfying self-restraint, patience in their abstract composition and use of color and text. However, its incongruities are redemptive and perhaps one of the exhibition’s most fascinating aspects. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Yet, to see Kong’s collages on a shelf beside bags of Cheetos or on freezer doors, it is made apparent that the capacity to embellish and the art’s intrinsic connection to the store’s goods doesn’t diminish the work’s artistic merit. Google+ The works of art are untitled and undated. Thomas has 1 job listed on their profile.
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