MIMI JUNG: THE SUBSUMING ELLIPSE

This catalogue is published in tandem with the solo exhibition Mimi Jung: The Subsuming Ellipse at Carvalho Park, from October 23 - January 9, 2021. Alongside a text exploring Jung’s practice and works written by curator Jennifer Carvalho, the catalogue features full color spreads of works in progress from Jung’s studio and the exhibition.

“The history of modernist abstraction has offered artists two distinct modes, the autobiographic gesture as individual, against geometry, the iconic. With conscious and intuitive persuasion, Mimi Jung’s new woven compositions marry these two seemingly distinct poles. Jung is of a trajectory of artists who have utilized geometric shapes for their emotive possibilities, materializing a potent and personal formal language that is counterpoint to and in tandem with this dialectic. Mark Rothko’s ungraspable, transient rectangles come to mind, or Robert Motherwell’s tension-fraught ovals in his Elegies, even the delicate tonal shifts of Agnes Martin’s grids.

SIX DIGITS
This work is deeply and distinctly diaristic. Titles are predicated by a six digit date, alluding to time and place, indexing the memory that has catalyzed each composition. Illuminated by the lens of perspective, and through thousands of hours of weaving, Jung’s ellipses enticingly evoke the sensations and the internal and external forces of these resonating memories, of a four month period in 2017. Holding far more than abstract visual records, the works radiate as much clarity as vulnerability.”

-excerpt from catalogue