The group show Happy Hardcore at Brooklyn-based Miriam Gallery features work by recent alumna Judy Chung ’18.
Happy Hardcore features sculptures, film, paintings and drawings which examine the proximities and extremes in femininity. The exhibition’s alliterative title is named after the eponymous dance genre originating in the UK and Europe’s rave scenes in the early 1990s. According to the gallery, “Emulating the genre’s bouncy and uplifting techno beats with darkcore undertones, the exhibition plays with the sugary, the plastic, and the psychologically dark.”
Chung’s work in the show, “Symbiosis (Backyard)” 2020, is described by Miriam Gallery as a humorous painting, a neon field where pop culture, kitsch, kawaii and neoclassical imagery collide.
Miriam Gallery is open by appointment and with limited walk-in availability from Thursdays to Sundays, through September 6. Groups are required to limit to five people and alert the gallery beforehand at [email protected]. Masks are required.
Prior to attending Columbia, Chung earned her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2013. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Chung has exhibited in group shows at Tatjana Pieter Gallery, Belgium; Mom’s Gallery, NY; and Parasol Projects, NY. She has also contributed to publications including DATEAGLE ART, Hart Magazine, and Elastic Magazine.
