October 17 | The Book as Container with Yoonshin Park

$115.00 $135.00

Saturday, October 17
11:00 AM-3:00 PM

Yoonshin Park approaches the book as a conceptual space and a sculptural object to literally grapple with. For example, her artist book from the series “How (Not) to Read” consists of pages that are only four inches tall yet over four feet wide. Its tendril-like pages flop, twist, knot, and sway, often resembling a vine more than a publication.

The vision for this workshop grew out of Yoonshin’s offhand comment during a studio visit that “anything can be a book.” The Book as Container builds on this notion by exploring how attention to sequencing, manipulation, and form (line, color, texture, etc.) creates narrative.

This experimental workshop explores the artists' book through folding, sequencing, and sculptural construction. Beginning with simple folded forms and progressing to sewn and bound structures, we will learn a range of artists' book techniques. The workshop encourages experimentation with materials, form, and narrative, suggesting how the book can function as both an intimate object and a container. Open to participants with or without bookmaking experience, the workshop invites curiosity and play.

Guest artist workshops are a curated series that invites contemporary artists to share their practice. Workshop includes an artist talk and a hands-on project. Topics range from technical printmaking skills to the bigger ideas printmaking can carry, reflecting our interest in the medium as craft, tool, and mode of expression.

Saturday, October 17
11:00 AM-3:00 PM

Yoonshin Park approaches the book as a conceptual space and a sculptural object to literally grapple with. For example, her artist book from the series “How (Not) to Read” consists of pages that are only four inches tall yet over four feet wide. Its tendril-like pages flop, twist, knot, and sway, often resembling a vine more than a publication.

The vision for this workshop grew out of Yoonshin’s offhand comment during a studio visit that “anything can be a book.” The Book as Container builds on this notion by exploring how attention to sequencing, manipulation, and form (line, color, texture, etc.) creates narrative.

This experimental workshop explores the artists' book through folding, sequencing, and sculptural construction. Beginning with simple folded forms and progressing to sewn and bound structures, we will learn a range of artists' book techniques. The workshop encourages experimentation with materials, form, and narrative, suggesting how the book can function as both an intimate object and a container. Open to participants with or without bookmaking experience, the workshop invites curiosity and play.

Guest artist workshops are a curated series that invites contemporary artists to share their practice. Workshop includes an artist talk and a hands-on project. Topics range from technical printmaking skills to the bigger ideas printmaking can carry, reflecting our interest in the medium as craft, tool, and mode of expression.

Bio

Yoonshin Park is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator whose work explores books and paper as symbolic spaces for experiences and narratives. Through sculptural papers, artist books, and installations, she incorporates papermaking and bookbinding to create multidimensional works that examine space and its role in shaping identity, drawing from her experience as a foreign transplant.

Park was a 2022-23 HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition and an alumna of the Hyde Park Art Center’s Center Program, where she also served as a Bridge Program curator. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Bridgeport Art Center, Beverly Art Center, Riverside Art Center, Pablo Center, and Saint Kate Hotel in Wisconsin, as well as Simyo Gallery in Seoul, Korea. Additionally, her work has been featured in international art fairs. Her curatorial projects include exhibitions at Adds Donna, Blink Contemporary, and Woman Made Gallery. Park holds an M.A. and M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. She currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Hyde Park Art Center. Park is represented by Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago.

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