Derek Eller Gallery

12/21/2024

LAST CHANCE

JIHA MOON
Fool’s Moon
Now on view through Saturday, December 21, 2024

“The title Fool’s Moon comes from my childhood memories of making wishes while gazing at the full moon on Lunar New Year’s Day in Korea. During those moments, we hoped for good health and happiness in the days ahead. This ritual has become a habit for me, and every time I see the full moon, I engage in wishful thinking. It’s not religion, totemism, or witchcraft—but in some ways, it might be a little of all three.

I’m presenting acrylic paintings on Hanji paper, hybrid ceramic paintings, ceramic sculptures, and Korean Bojagi which are quilt painting collaborations I made with my 97-year-old grandmother. I incorporate iconic images, shapes, and colors to convey my wishful thinking during these chaotic times. The powerful Korean Haetae—a mythical hybrid creature—is reimagined as my silly, helpless poodles in a large painting on paper titled Blue Haetae. In my ceramic piece Banana Wreath, rotten banana peels symbolize the aging process, especially that of a woman’s skin, and I seek to glorify this transformation by using crystal glaze.

In Nocturne (American Beautyberry), I use banana peels as symbols of second-generation Asian Americans—pejoratively compared to bananas, yellow on the outside and white on the inside—who are taught by their elders to survive through assimilation. These figures are camouflaged within night scenes, accented with the hues of American beautyberry. Additionally, I reference the Korean drag queen Kimchi and Keanu Reeves, whose life quotes resonate deeply with me, borrowing their voices to tell my story.

In today’s vulnerable climate, I feel that we are all fools, clinging to hope and making wishes—sentiments I capture and reflect upon through the works in this exhibition.”

-Jiha Moon

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Image:
Red Skirt, 2024
porcelain, mason stain, underglaze, glaze, enamel
16 x 8.5 x 8.5 inches

12/19/2024

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/felix-la-2024-exhibitor-list-1234728246/

The 2025 edition of Felix LA will run at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel from February 19–23.

12/19/2024

LAST CHANCE

JIHA MOON
Fool’s Moon
Now on view through Saturday, December 21, 2024

“The title Fool’s Moon comes from my childhood memories of making wishes while gazing at the full moon on Lunar New Year’s Day in Korea. During those moments, we hoped for good health and happiness in the days ahead. This ritual has become a habit for me, and every time I see the full moon, I engage in wishful thinking. It’s not religion, totemism, or witchcraft—but in some ways, it might be a little of all three.

I’m presenting acrylic paintings on Hanji paper, hybrid ceramic paintings, ceramic sculptures, and Korean Bojagi which are quilt painting collaborations I made with my 97-year-old grandmother. I incorporate iconic images, shapes, and colors to convey my wishful thinking during these chaotic times. The powerful Korean Haetae—a mythical hybrid creature—is reimagined as my silly, helpless poodles in a large painting on paper titled Blue Haetae. In my ceramic piece Banana Wreath, rotten banana peels symbolize the aging process, especially that of a woman’s skin, and I seek to glorify this transformation by using crystal glaze.

In Nocturne (American Beautyberry), I use banana peels as symbols of second-generation Asian Americans—pejoratively compared to bananas, yellow on the outside and white on the inside—who are taught by their elders to survive through assimilation. These figures are camouflaged within night scenes, accented with the hues of American beautyberry. Additionally, I reference the Korean drag queen Kimchi and Keanu Reeves, whose life quotes resonate deeply with me, borrowing their voices to tell my story.

In today’s vulnerable climate, I feel that we are all fools, clinging to hope and making wishes—sentiments I capture and reflect upon through the works in this exhibition.”

-Jiha Moon

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Image:
Haetae (sunrise), 2024
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
12 x 13.5 x 8 inches

12/17/2024

LAST CHANCE

JIHA MOON
Fool’s Moon
Now on view through December 21, 2024

“The title Fool’s Moon comes from my childhood memories of making wishes while gazing at the full moon on Lunar New Year’s Day in Korea. During those moments, we hoped for good health and happiness in the days ahead. This ritual has become a habit for me, and every time I see the full moon, I engage in wishful thinking. It’s not religion, totemism, or witchcraft—but in some ways, it might be a little of all three.

I’m presenting acrylic paintings on Hanji paper, hybrid ceramic paintings, ceramic sculptures, and Korean Bojagi which are quilt painting collaborations I made with my 97-year-old grandmother. I incorporate iconic images, shapes, and colors to convey my wishful thinking during these chaotic times. The powerful Korean Haetae—a mythical hybrid creature—is reimagined as my silly, helpless poodles in a large painting on paper titled Blue Haetae. In my ceramic piece Banana Wreath, rotten banana peels symbolize the aging process, especially that of a woman’s skin, and I seek to glorify this transformation by using crystal glaze.

In Nocturne (American Beautyberry), I use banana peels as symbols of second-generation Asian Americans—pejoratively compared to bananas, yellow on the outside and white on the inside—who are taught by their elders to survive through assimilation. These figures are camouflaged within night scenes, accented with the hues of American beautyberry. Additionally, I reference the Korean drag queen Kimchi and Keanu Reeves, whose life quotes resonate deeply with me, borrowing their voices to tell my story.

In today’s vulnerable climate, I feel that we are all fools, clinging to hope and making wishes—sentiments I capture and reflect upon through the works in this exhibition.”

-Jiha Moon

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Image:
Fetch, 2024
acrylic, silk, Hanji, found fabric
29.25 x 33 inches

12/16/2024

LAST CHANCE

NORTH ROOM: KEVIN LOWENTHAL
Mannequins in Audience
Now on view through December 21, 2024

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Kevin Lowenthal entitled Mannequins In Audience in the North Room. With a background in weaving and textile, Lowenthal encrusts his surfaces with a textured mixture of cotton and layered oil paint, creating a rich, fibrous ground on which to build worlds, investigate forms, and uncover signifiers.

Confined to liminal, compact interiors, Lowenthal’s architectural dreamscapes are often inhabited by lingering, faceless figures. Provoking a sense of theatricality, curtains frame each scene, setting the stage for domestic interiors bound together in one enigmatic space. In “2 Blonde Mannequins In Conversation”, the pattern of the figures’ hair matches that of the curtains. Rather than acting as hard, definitive boundaries, the curtains appropriate the fluidity of hair. This malleable relationship of forms ignites a cyclical reinforcement of performance and body, of object and texture. The settings in which these shapes and objects exist possess a vastness akin to a free-roam video game where viewers can choose to stay within the limits of a prefabricated narrative or enter portals that go beyond.

Kevin Lowenthal (b. 1994, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in New York, NY. Lowenthal received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Lowenthal recently had a solo exhibition at 243 Luz in Margate, UK. Recent group exhibitions include Brigette Mulholland, Paris, France; Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY; and Ruby/Dakota, New York, NY. This will be his first solo exhibition in New York City.

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Image:
KEVIN LOWENTHAL
Through the Window, 2024
oil on cotton on linen
40 x 32 inches

12/14/2024

Julia Bland’s exhibition “Rivers on the Inside” was selected by Glenn Adamson as one of best fiber art shows of 2024 in Art in America

12/11/2024

DAVID KENNEDY CUTLER
Ensemble II, 2024
Inkjet transfer, acrylic, and clear coat on canvas, armature wire
95.25 x 73.75 x 4 inches

12/10/2024

Dan Fischer’s drawings are currently being featured at The Bunker Artspace in West Palm Beach, FL

12/09/2024

AREUM YANG
Persian Blue Air, 2024
acrylic, oil, fabric collage, oil pastel, pencil on poly cotton
70 x 80 inches

12/05/2024

Visit us at:

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH
GALLERIES | BOOTH H31
MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CENTER

VIP Preview Days: Wednesday, December 4 & Thursday, December 5

Public Days: Friday, December 6 – Sunday, December 8

Works by:

SCOTT COVERT
DAVID KENNEDY CUTLER
DAN FISCHER
JAMESON GREEN
CLARE GRILL
KATHIA ST. HILAIRE
ELLEN LESPERANCE
JJ MANFORD
NANCY SHAVER
ALYSON SHOTZ
JOSEPH OLISAEMEKA WILSON
KARL WIRSUM
AREUM YANG




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Image:
CLARE GRILL
Flip, 2024
oil on linen
46 x 42 inches

12/04/2024

Visit us at:

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH
GALLERIES | BOOTH H31
MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CENTER

VIP Preview Days: Wednesday, December 4 & Thursday, December 5

Public Days: Friday, December 6 – Sunday, December 8

Works by:

SCOTT COVERT
DAVID KENNEDY CUTLER
DAN FISCHER
JAMESON GREEN
CLARE GRILL
KATHIA ST. HILAIRE
ELLEN LESPERANCE
JJ MANFORD
NANCY SHAVER
ALYSON SHOTZ
JOSEPH OLISAEMEKA WILSON
KARL WIRSUM
AREUM YANG

12/03/2024

Now on view through December 21, 2024

JIHA MOON
Fool’s Moon

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new sculptures and paintings by Jiha Moon. Borrowing imagery, forms, and materials from Asian folklore and traditions, contemporary popular culture, and Western art history, Moon creates a mashed-up globalized dialect that speaks to identity, cultural displacement, and miscommunication.

Jiha Moon (b. 1973) lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida. She received a BFA from Korea University, Seoul, an MFA from Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University, Tallahassee. Moon is a 2023 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Fine Arts. Her work will be featured in the upcoming exhibition The Shape of Power: Stories of Race in American Sculpture at Smithsonian American Art Museum (November 2024). Moon has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally including the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Her work is in the collections of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; and Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, among many others. This will be her third solo exhibition at the gallery.

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Image:
JIHA MOON
Maria, 2024
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
18 x 9 x 8.5 inches

11/26/2024

JIHA MOON
Fool’s Moon
Now on view through December 21, 2024

“The title Fool’s Moon comes from my childhood memories of making wishes while gazing at the full moon on Lunar New Year’s Day in Korea. During those moments, we hoped for good health and happiness in the days ahead. This ritual has become a habit for me, and every time I see the full moon, I engage in wishful thinking. It’s not religion, totemism, or witchcraft—but in some ways, it might be a little of all three.

I’m presenting acrylic paintings on Hanji paper, hybrid ceramic paintings, ceramic sculptures, and Korean Bojagi which are quilt painting collaborations I made with my 97-year-old grandmother. I incorporate iconic images, shapes, and colors to convey my wishful thinking during these chaotic times. The powerful Korean Haetae—a mythical hybrid creature—is reimagined as my silly, helpless poodles in a large painting on paper titled Blue Haetae. In my ceramic piece Banana Wreath, rotten banana peels symbolize the aging process, especially that of a woman’s skin, and I seek to glorify this transformation by using crystal glaze.

In Nocturne (American Beautyberry), I use banana peels as symbols of second-generation Asian Americans—pejoratively compared to bananas, yellow on the outside and white on the inside—who are taught by their elders to survive through assimilation. These figures are camouflaged within night scenes, accented with the hues of American beautyberry. Additionally, I reference the Korean drag queen Kimchi and Keanu Reeves, whose life quotes resonate deeply with me, borrowing their voices to tell my story.

In today’s vulnerable climate, I feel that we are all fools, clinging to hope and making wishes—sentiments I capture and reflect upon through the works in this exhibition.”

-Jiha Moon

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Image:
Five Brother Teapot, 2024
earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, glaze, wire, twine, nylon rope
16 x 14 x 12 inches