Invitation : Form and Formed at Paramount Gallery

Dear Friends,

Please join us for the opening reception of Form and Formed on Friday, May 4, 2007 from 5:00 ?8:00 p.m. at the Community Arts @ Paramount Gallery. Meet with the featured artists and fellow art enthusiasts.

Form and Formed runs until June 9 and features ceramic and installation work by Suk Jin Choi and work by architect Yu-Chih Hsiao.

Suk Jin Choi received her BFA and MFA degrees in Ceramics at Ewha Woman�s University in Seoul, Korea. She came to America in 2003 to teach traditional Korean Ceramics Surface Decoration at Virginia Commonwealth University. Choi has had eight solo and participated in numerous group exhibitions. She is a recipient of various awards including Special Awards of Seoul Contemporary Ceramic Arts Competitions in Korea. She taugth several workshops and lectures on traditional Korean Ceramics Surface Decoration and has written many articles for The Korea Times and Ceramic Art Monthly in Korea. Currently, she is completing her second MFA degree in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Choi�s work concerned with memory and the tracing of time. Through delicate, yet crucial blend between traditional Korean surfacing methods and contemporary objects, she creates ceramic sculptures that talk about passing of time and space.

Born in Taipei, Yu-Chih Hsiao is currently completing his Master of Architecture degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art.  He received his BFA in Interior Space Design from Shih-Chien University, Taipei in 1998 as well as his Diploma of Photography and Printing from the World College of Journalism and Communication, Taipei in 1994.Yu-Chih has developed his varied interests both separately and simultaneously for more than ten years through the fields of design, architecture and fine art. Recently he has been investigating how to use technology, materiality, pattern, structure and architectural tectonics, to weave his multi-directional process into contemporary social content.

Community Arts @ Paramount Gallery located on west side of Woodward, south of 9 mile in Paramount Bank.

22635 Woodward Avenue, Ferndale, MI.  248 414-6500

We hope to see you there.

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