SALTWORKS is pleased to present Blue Peony and Impure Thoughts, featuring new works on paper and an installation by Atlanta-based artist Jiha Moon. The exhibition will be on view from January 23, 2010 through March 6, 2010. This is the second solo exhibition of Ms. Moon's work at the gallery.

Jiha Moon, Botan Dog, 2009, ink, acrylic and embroidery on hanji paper mounted on canvas, 10" diameter.

Throughout her artistic career, the multivalent paintings of Korea-born and Atlanta-based artist Jiha Moon have operated in several distinctive yet visually cohesive realms. As the title of her current Saltworks Gallery exhibition―“Blue Peony and Impure Thoughts”―suggests, this handsome body of work simultaneously conflates cultural references and confounds expectations, all while accommodating multiple audience interpretations.

The unnatural abounds in everyday life and in Moon’s compositions, like the blue peony, found in Cheoyong and others. Traditional pink or white peonies represent luxury and wealth―the opposite of lotuses, which signify spirituality―but blue peonies don’t exist in nature, twisting the expectation of these signature shapes. In this spirit, another shifting character in her work is an inu-hariko, another symbol for good fortune, which looks like a cat, but is actually a dog found on traditional Japanese toys and sweets like Botan Rice Candy (botan means peony in Japanese). Therefore, these lush surfaces have deeper, changeable underpinnings, as the “true” identities of each figure fades in and out of focus.
- Excerpt from exhibition essay by Atlanta-based curator Stephanie Greene.

Jiha Moon lives and works in Atlanta, GA. Recent solo exhibitions include Turbulence Utopia, Mint Museum, Charolette, NC and Pleasant Purgatory, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea. Selected group exhibitions include the One Way or Another, Asia Society and Museum, NY (traveling); Currents, Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Movement, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Art on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Museum, NC. Selected artist residencies include Headlands Center for the Arts, Golden Foundation fellowship, Sausalito, CA; Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY; and the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, artist residency awarded by Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY. Moon is currently an artist-in-residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadephia, PA

These are based on my painitng "Botan Garden". There are two size, 20x20in and 40x40in.?They?are digitally printed on silk and inks soaked thru the fabric so as you can see the images on both side. The bigger scarf has an embroidery hanging element.

They are super higer resolution and you can either wear or frame as a print. FWM takes orders and can ship. Inquiries should be directed to the manager of sales for the scarf project Tracey Blackman, 215-561-8888.

More Mergers & Acquisitions acknowledges current states of personal, economic, and institutional uncertainty while positing an optimistic tone of generosity and camaraderie. Jiha Moon and Rachel Hayes, Golden Blizzard (an Atlanta-based collective), and Team SHaG (New York painters Amy Sillman, David Humphrey, and Elliott Green), all choose to take on the joys and pitfalls of Collaboration. Each artist possesses a diverse and inclusive practice, so their collective activities cultivate an even wider range of illustrative techniques and image-making traditions including collage, figuration, landscape, surrealism, fantasy, and kitsch.

Curator's Office
Jiha Moon: An Exact Place
November 7 - December 17, 2009
Opening Wednesday November 11, 6-8pm

Press release

202-387-1008
1515 14th St NW
Suite 201
Washington, DC 20005

6:30pm Curator Xandra Eden will tour the exhibition.
*my new print published by FHE will be at silent auction.

Moti Hasson Gallery
535 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001

Mint Museum of Art
2730 Randolph Road
Charlotte, NC 28207

Saltworks Gallery - It is my debut solo in Atlanta.
Jan 12 - Feb 22
Curatorial essay by Stuart Horodner, the curator from Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

Opening reception: Jan 12, Saturday, 7-9pm, 2008
635 Angier Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA 30308
404 876 8000

Aqua Hotel: Curator's Office (Room 222)
1530 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL

Ink: Diane Villnani Editions
Suites of Dochester
1850 Collins Ave. Miami, FL
Daine will have two new prints (cole and lithos) printed by Landfall press in Santa Fe.

Intermix Holiday Campaign is designed based on 'Where are they?'
View here

Intermix will have a special event in their Miami store images from one of my painting. They will have gift cards, window display and T shirt using my images.
Event: Dec 8th, Sat. 1-3pm
Intermix Miami: 634 Collins Ave, Miami, FL 33139

Imperfect Articles has my Tshirt design (hand dyed with silkscreen print) at NaDa art fair.
Also will be available on line at Imperfect Articles

Miki Wick Kim Contemporary, November 1 - December 22, 2007
Opening Reception: November 1, 2007, 6:30 ­ 8:00 pm

Binzstr. 23, 8045 Zurich, Switzerland

Drawing Gifts, 4th annual benefit auction for The Drawing Center
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Auction web page here
View images here
THE XCHANGE
640 W 28th Street, 9th Floor (between 11th and 12th Avenues)
New York City

Curator's Office, September 15 - October 27, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15, 2007

1515 14th St. NW Suite 201, Washington, DC 20005
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11 - 6 and by appointment. 202 387 1008

To the Left
A group show of contemporary asian arts at Ctrl Gallery, Houston.
Selected artists: Jiha Moon, Barbara Takenaga, Jean Shin, Chie Fueki, Yui Kugimiya

Ctrl Gallery
3907 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002
Opening reception: July 21, Saturday, from 10 - 2pm conjuntion with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's "RED HOT" exhibition.
Exhibition dates: July 20 - September 1, 2007

Preview, Thursday, June 7, 5-7pm
Artists' Reception, Friday, June 8, 6-9pm
Talks and Tour, Thursday, June 21, 6pm
Performances and Awards, Saturday, July 21, 2-5pm

Opening reception: Saturday, May 5th, 6-8pm

535 west 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, 212-268-4444

Jiha Moon will be having her second solo exhibition at Curator's Office in September of 2007.

Additionally, Jiha Moon will be having her first solo museum exhibition at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina from January 26 - July 6, 2008 as part of the museum's Vantage Point series.

curator's office, a gallery based in Washington, DC, is delighted to announce the acquisition of two Jiha Moon works by the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. the two works are: "Place for Sib-Jang-Saeng II," 2004, ink and acrylic on silk; and "Styx," 2005, ink and acrylic on paper, Gift of Mario Cader-Frech and Robert Wennett.