Join us each month at the Dunedin Fine Art Center’s Coffee and Conversation series, where art and insight blend over a great cup of coffee. Sponsored by DFAC’s Sterling Society, this series features a new guest artist every month, sharing their creative journey and unique perspectives. Admission is $5, or free for DFAC members—an enriching way to connect with art and the community.
Coffee and Conversation with Joo Woo
Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12 noon
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Joo Woo’s artist talk presents her recent project, Do Not Draw a Red Star, an installation featuring over one hundred painted cutouts that reflect the multifaceted dimensions of her life and identity. As an immigrant, Asian, woman, artist, teacher, and mother, Woo weaves together decades of imagery drawn from her personal collection and vintage sources from her homeland. The collage includes Buddhist amulets sent by her father over twenty years, Japanese cartoon books from her youth, and Korean textbooks from the 1970s and 1980s. More recent additions include her children’s old drawings and typographies inspired by STOP ASIAN HATE protests in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. This talk offers an opportunity to explore the intricate layers of Woo’s artistic journey and the cultural narratives that shape her work.
Joo Woo’s Bio
Joo Woo explores the in-between spaces, fluidity of identity, sense of belonging, displacement, and exchanges between Western and East Asian cultures. She embraces cultural differences, turning linguistic and cultural borders into an opportunity for cross-cultural dialogue. Woo received a BFA (2000) from Kyungpook National University, an MFA (2003) from Hongik University in South Korea, and later an MFA (2005) from the Pennsylvania State University after she migrated to the United States. Woo has exhibited widely, including at the A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, the Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, the Ringling Museum of Art, the Sejong Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, and the Jorge B. Vargas Museum in Manila, Philippines. She has been a resident artist at the VCCA in Virginia, Ami Art Museum in Dangjin, South Korea, and the Red Gate Residency in Beijing, China. She received the AHL Contemporary Art Award in NYC, the Korean National Art Festival Award at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, and was nominated for the 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship.