The Artists Brooklyn Studio 6.30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Join us on Wednesday, November 16th, as we meet with artist Michael Joo in his Brooklyn studio for a close look at his ritualized and romanticized artworks and processes. In Michael Joos work you can see the artists eye investigating natural and synthetic materials in a way that suggestively confronts his viewers with inherent and lingering questions of mortality and motive. Joo’s work is both intensely physical and intellectually invigorating. As a leading contemporary conceptual artist, he uses different artistic forms to express passionately felt ideas about identity, the body, and cultural mores. “For the most part,” says Michael Joo, “I am interested in playing with notions of physicality and the slippery nature of the identity of an object (or person, place, thing),” writes the The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art in advance of Michaels 2004 exhibition. [Photo © Nadine Dinter]
