Asian & American Art Foundation, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 211, NY City Proud to present a group exhibition ‘The path of cultivation: Geumhee Lee, Ming-Jer Kuo, YoungAe Lee, Insun Kim, Gao Yuan, SoKeumRan, Jieun Cheon, Yujin Hur, Jarvis Hua, Yena Seo-Yeon Park, Jinistar’. This exhibition runs from May 18 – 31, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, May. 21st from 6-8 pm.
Group Exhibition ‘The Path of Cultivation’ presents artists whose work trace time, memory, and inner growth. Through diverse media - from silk-screens and collaged ink to landscapes, imaginative constructions, and cyanotypes - each explores life’s cycles, nature, and the cultivation of perception and emotion. The exhibition invites reflection on subtle transformations and the interplay of observation, imagination, and personal experience, revealing the resilience and complexity of human life.
Ming-Jer Kuo presents Suburban Form, a site-specific installation blending photography and sculptural elements to explore the intersection of urban development and natural systems. His work blurs architecture, landscape, and street life, creating a layered, immersive dialogue between the built environment and organic forms. Viewers are invited to experience shifting perspectives, scale, and rhythms, reconsidering their relationship to suburban space.
GeumHee Lee creates layered silkscreen works exploring time, nature, and human emotion. Her series Creation and Disappearance in the Passage of Time uses overlapping imagery—stairwells, winter trees, a golden sun, and flowers—to evoke memory, transformation, and the rhythms of life. Through visual layering, her work reflects resilience, impermanence, and cyclical time.
YoungAe Lee’s Traces series transforms memory and emotional scars into meditative, abstract ink and hanji compositions. Using layered circles and collaged shapes, she creates irregular patterns that suggest balance, rhythm, and the expressive energy of creation.
Insun Kim’s landscape paintings combine sketches, photography, and imagination to capture memories of home, travel, and nature. Using repeated points, lines, and natural pigments, his works evoke light, time, and life’s cycles, offering a contemplative vision grounded in Korean painting’s simplicity.
Gao Yuan explores the relationship between the human body and nature, presenting the body as a universal language beyond culture and identity. Through hybrid “photo sculptures,” she merges photography and three-dimensional form. Gao’s works re-imagine the body as both subject and environment, reflecting our primal connection to nature.
Jinistar presents The Depth of Memories, a new series exploring how people preserve and idealize moments through art. Inspired by 3D techniques, the works create striking depth and visual illusion. Activated by natural light, each piece transforms in space, offering an immersive 3D experience without special equipment.
SoKeumRan’s cyanotype-based works record time, emotion, and memory using light, hanji, and natural materials. Her layered photograms create singular, unrepeatable images where chance and intention meet, revealing emotional landscapes shaped by light, solitude, and inner reflection.
Jieun Cheon's Uncanished Workld—An Epistemological Inquiry is an installation series exploring how humans perceive both the external world and the inner self. Combining drawing, painting, sculpture, and text, her works navigate paradoxes such as order and chaos, life and death, within a fictional universe that resists full comprehension.
Yujin Hur creates time-based, nature-inspired installations using water, paper, and natural processes. Her work traces subtle transformations, creating contemplative spaces that reflect healing, resilience, and the interconnected rhythms of life.
Jarvis Ruoxi Hua’s paintings examine overlooked “non-places” in urban life—airports, subway stations, and sidewalks—depicting desolate cityscapes, lifeless figures, and discarded objects. Using composition, light, and fragmented structures, his work evokes the cold, maze-like, and inhuman qualities of these spaces.
Yena Seo-Yeon Park is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist exploring the duality of love and memory. Her layered imagery and abstract gestures on fabric and linen evoke the instability of spaces, dreams, and relationships once felt safe. Blending painting, collage, and journaling, her work reflects on personal and collective histories, queer identity, and shared vulnerability.