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Shin Gray Studio is a two artist partner team of Kyungmi Shin and Todd Gray.
Taking cues from natural and cultural context of the site, Shin Gray Studio creates public artworks that are not only visually striking but also meaningful in relation to the site. Shin Gray Studio has created public artworks for a variety of private and public art buildings including Los Angeles International Airport, Palms Fire Station (Los Angeles, CA), Street Improvement Project (Culver City, CA), La Fayette Park Gymnasium and Community Center (Los Angeles, CA), Baldwin Hills Library and Jefferson Library (Los Angeles, CA). In addition to the recently awarded public art commission at Downtown Arts Center in Winston-Salem, NC, Shin Gray Studio is currently working on a large scale work for Hope Street Family Center in Los Angeles, CA,and Omnitrans Transit Station in San Bernardino, CA (to be installed in 2012).
Todd Gray received MFA from Cal Arts, and his work is collected by numerous collections including San Francisco Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Norton Family Foundation, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work has been exhibted at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Smithsonian Anacostia Museum.
Kyungim Shin received MFA from UC Berkeley. Her works have been exhibited at Berkeley Art Museum, Sonje Art Museum, Korea, Japanese American national Art Museum, and Torrance Art Museum, and have received numerous grants including California Community Foundation Grant, Durfee Grant, Pasadena City Individual Artist Fellowship and LA Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Grants.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Hope Street Family Center, Los Angeles, CA
“Hope Street Family Center”,2009
To be installed December 2010
Shin Gray Studio
Powder Coated Aluminum sculpture
30 ft x 25 ft x10 ft (H x W x D)
Designed to reflect the transformative effect the center has had on the lives of many families and youth, the dynamic sculptural form and the surface design was created to engage community members as well as passersbys with its colorful projectiles of metal that jut out from the building, creating a sense of movement and energy that dialogues with the architecture.
To be installed December 2010
Shin Gray Studio
Powder Coated Aluminum sculpture
30 ft x 25 ft x10 ft (H x W x D)
Designed to reflect the transformative effect the center has had on the lives of many families and youth, the dynamic sculptural form and the surface design was created to engage community members as well as passersbys with its colorful projectiles of metal that jut out from the building, creating a sense of movement and energy that dialogues with the architecture.
Omnitrans Transit Station, San Bernardino, CA
"Orange"
OMNITRANS Transit Station, 2009
Shin Gray Studio
to be instsalled 2012
Powder coated steel, 15 feet tall x 6.5 feet wide.
This 15 feet tall metal sculpture was created for the Inland Mall Station of the Omnitrans Transit System of the city of San Bernardino. It is an abstracted orange tree that reflects back on the history of the city where in the early 1900's, there were as many as 20,000 acres of orange trees being farmed in the area. National Orange Fair began in 1911 and continues to this day, and the fairground is located across the street from the station.
OMNITRANS Transit Station, 2009
Shin Gray Studio
to be instsalled 2012
Powder coated steel, 15 feet tall x 6.5 feet wide.
This 15 feet tall metal sculpture was created for the Inland Mall Station of the Omnitrans Transit System of the city of San Bernardino. It is an abstracted orange tree that reflects back on the history of the city where in the early 1900's, there were as many as 20,000 acres of orange trees being farmed in the area. National Orange Fair began in 1911 and continues to this day, and the fairground is located across the street from the station.
Downtown Arts Center, Winston Salem, NC, 2009-2010
Lobby Entrnace for the Downtown Arts Center
Winston Salem, NC
to be installed spring 2010
Shin Gray Studio
glass mosaic tiles on concrete
These lyrical abstract lines are based on the historical hurricane map of North Carolina. The glass mosaic tiles fabricated by a Byzantine Mosaic lab in Mexico city are inlaid into exiting lobby space. The lobby space leads into the center's gallery space, large conference space, Reynolds Place, and the Downtown Sawtooth Art School.
Winston Salem, NC
to be installed spring 2010
Shin Gray Studio
glass mosaic tiles on concrete
These lyrical abstract lines are based on the historical hurricane map of North Carolina. The glass mosaic tiles fabricated by a Byzantine Mosaic lab in Mexico city are inlaid into exiting lobby space. The lobby space leads into the center's gallery space, large conference space, Reynolds Place, and the Downtown Sawtooth Art School.
Palms Fire Station, Los Angeles, CA
Palms Fire Station #43
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs
Powder Coated Steel
by Todd Gray
Palm fronds (apparent in the day on two panels) and the palm of a hand (quietly apparent at night with focused lighting on two panels). The color palette references the ocean, sky, sun and land.
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs
Powder Coated Steel
by Todd Gray
Palm fronds (apparent in the day on two panels) and the palm of a hand (quietly apparent at night with focused lighting on two panels). The color palette references the ocean, sky, sun and land.
Culver City Street Improvement Project, 2006-9
HERE NOW THERE THEN
3-Year Washington Blvd Improvement Project Culver City, CA.
by Kyungmi Shin
Street Banners for 2.5 miles stretch, each banner is 3x 8 ft
180 individually designed street banners explore the history of the area. They explore Natural History, Gabriellino Indian History and Mythology, Business History, Entertainment Industry History, City History and Poetry of the present moment.
http://www.ci.culver-city.ca.us/cultural/banners.asp?sec=arts
3-Year Washington Blvd Improvement Project Culver City, CA.
by Kyungmi Shin
Street Banners for 2.5 miles stretch, each banner is 3x 8 ft
180 individually designed street banners explore the history of the area. They explore Natural History, Gabriellino Indian History and Mythology, Business History, Entertainment Industry History, City History and Poetry of the present moment.
http://www.ci.culver-city.ca.us/cultural/banners.asp?sec=arts
La Fayette Park Gymnasium and Community Center, 2005-2009
“Peace/Paz/Pyungwha”
La Faette Park Gymnasium and Community Center
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
by Kyungmi Shin
aluminum cut with waterjet
Taking cues from Mayan Calendar and YinYang symbol, the words in Spanish, Korean and English as well as cutout shapes of children playing in the park are presented as cutout shapes on the Aluminum Panels.
To be installed December 2009.
La Faette Park Gymnasium and Community Center
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
by Kyungmi Shin
aluminum cut with waterjet
Taking cues from Mayan Calendar and YinYang symbol, the words in Spanish, Korean and English as well as cutout shapes of children playing in the park are presented as cutout shapes on the Aluminum Panels.
To be installed December 2009.
Baldwin Hills Library & Jeffersono Library, Los Angeles, CA, 2002
Nautilus, Baldwin Hills Library
A new construction located in the mid-city section of Los Angeles
commissioned by the L. A. Cultural Affairs Department
by Todd Gray
I used the metaphor of home and the spiral (found in the swirl of sea shells and the Milky Way) to relate the library as both safe haven and gateway to the universe of possibilities.
A new construction located in the mid-city section of Los Angeles
commissioned by the L. A. Cultural Affairs Department
by Todd Gray
I used the metaphor of home and the spiral (found in the swirl of sea shells and the Milky Way) to relate the library as both safe haven and gateway to the universe of possibilities.
San Diego Airport & LAX Airport, 2008
"Sky Water Land: San Diego On The Move"
Proposal for Terminal 2 East Ticketing and Concourse
San Diego International Airport, 2008
Light boxes with art glass panels,
each panel size from 18”X18”- 18”X40”
These lightboxes are created from images of the sky and desert of San Diego crowded white cutout images of the transportational methods of the past. White silhouettes of airplanes from different era are in the sky, and the white silhouettes of cars and carriages from the history are juxtaposed against the desert landscape of San Diego. These lightboxes were to be made from a beautiful custom made glass made by a German manufacturer specializing in art glass and stained glasses for hundreds of years, and to be installed in the waiting areas of the airport creating an illusion of windows into the past.
BLUE: DOUBLE-SIDE
LAX Airport, Terminal 3, 2008
Temporary Installation
This installation, “Blue: Double-Side”, investigates the relationship between reality, perception and imagination using the color blue as a cue. The installation is composed of painting and photography. The photographs in the installation are taken in Los Angeles and Africa. The painterly elements and photographic images echo and interact with each other. I am incorporating these chance encounters with blue in my travels with painted elements of geometric shapes reminiscent of futuristic architecture and crystal growth.
Blue in ancient Egyptian art was depicted with the mineral Lapis Lazuli which purportedly possessed life-giving powers. Blue pigment ground from Lapis Lazuli was used in the depiction of Pharao, Nile, the life-giving and most important river in ancient Egypt, and also in the depiction of the Heavenly sky in ancient Egyptian art. In medieval illuminations and paintings from Europe, the same pigment from Lapis Lazuli was used to paint the robes of Virgin Mary.
I started the “Blue” project in 2001 as an attempt to open up my art practice to include accidental discoveries and Dada-esque randomness. I decided that for one year, I would photograph whatever I encountered that was colored blue whether it was the sky or a piece of trash on the ground. The ensuing portfolio of photographs, over one thousand images, served as a basis for several photo installations. The first large scale installation, “Blue”, was made for Seoul Arts Center in 2002 in Seoul, South Korea. Another large installation, “Blue II”, was created at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA in 2005.
In this new installation developed for the LAX airport, I have worked with new images from my recent travels and created an installation that describes two different worlds- Los Angeles and Ghana- and the air travel between them. There is much blue present in our visual experience, the blue sky, the ocean. And the earth is blue when seen from outer space. This focus on the color blue serves as a beginning point to reflect on the visual poetry that exists in our daily lives. I’ve noticed that in my experience of creating these pictures, the discovery of blue objects became a transformative experience of my daily life. The blue discarded plastic bag was as precious as the blue of the Lapis Lazuli, and I marveled at the poetry of my daily experience. I would be looking at a blue wall, then a passerby with a blue shirt walks by, and at the same time, a blue Pepsi Truck drives by. These small coincidences became poetry written by universe for me as the audience. Many of these encounters, I didn’t have the chance to record on camera, but I was profoundly touched by them. My intention for this installation is to create a poetic experience for the viewers who pass through this area of LAX. As you walk through and see these images, I hope that you have an experience that echoes this poetry of life.
Kyungmi Shin
January 2008
Proposal for Terminal 2 East Ticketing and Concourse
San Diego International Airport, 2008
Light boxes with art glass panels,
each panel size from 18”X18”- 18”X40”
These lightboxes are created from images of the sky and desert of San Diego crowded white cutout images of the transportational methods of the past. White silhouettes of airplanes from different era are in the sky, and the white silhouettes of cars and carriages from the history are juxtaposed against the desert landscape of San Diego. These lightboxes were to be made from a beautiful custom made glass made by a German manufacturer specializing in art glass and stained glasses for hundreds of years, and to be installed in the waiting areas of the airport creating an illusion of windows into the past.
BLUE: DOUBLE-SIDE
LAX Airport, Terminal 3, 2008
Temporary Installation
This installation, “Blue: Double-Side”, investigates the relationship between reality, perception and imagination using the color blue as a cue. The installation is composed of painting and photography. The photographs in the installation are taken in Los Angeles and Africa. The painterly elements and photographic images echo and interact with each other. I am incorporating these chance encounters with blue in my travels with painted elements of geometric shapes reminiscent of futuristic architecture and crystal growth.
Blue in ancient Egyptian art was depicted with the mineral Lapis Lazuli which purportedly possessed life-giving powers. Blue pigment ground from Lapis Lazuli was used in the depiction of Pharao, Nile, the life-giving and most important river in ancient Egypt, and also in the depiction of the Heavenly sky in ancient Egyptian art. In medieval illuminations and paintings from Europe, the same pigment from Lapis Lazuli was used to paint the robes of Virgin Mary.
I started the “Blue” project in 2001 as an attempt to open up my art practice to include accidental discoveries and Dada-esque randomness. I decided that for one year, I would photograph whatever I encountered that was colored blue whether it was the sky or a piece of trash on the ground. The ensuing portfolio of photographs, over one thousand images, served as a basis for several photo installations. The first large scale installation, “Blue”, was made for Seoul Arts Center in 2002 in Seoul, South Korea. Another large installation, “Blue II”, was created at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA in 2005.
In this new installation developed for the LAX airport, I have worked with new images from my recent travels and created an installation that describes two different worlds- Los Angeles and Ghana- and the air travel between them. There is much blue present in our visual experience, the blue sky, the ocean. And the earth is blue when seen from outer space. This focus on the color blue serves as a beginning point to reflect on the visual poetry that exists in our daily lives. I’ve noticed that in my experience of creating these pictures, the discovery of blue objects became a transformative experience of my daily life. The blue discarded plastic bag was as precious as the blue of the Lapis Lazuli, and I marveled at the poetry of my daily experience. I would be looking at a blue wall, then a passerby with a blue shirt walks by, and at the same time, a blue Pepsi Truck drives by. These small coincidences became poetry written by universe for me as the audience. Many of these encounters, I didn’t have the chance to record on camera, but I was profoundly touched by them. My intention for this installation is to create a poetic experience for the viewers who pass through this area of LAX. As you walk through and see these images, I hope that you have an experience that echoes this poetry of life.
Kyungmi Shin
January 2008
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