FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Summer Student Show #1

Sehwon Min
Inside Of

July 16th – August 2nd, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, July 16th, 6-9pm

little tree gallery
3412 22nd St @ Guerrero
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.643.4929
www.littletreegallery.com
info@littletreegallery.com

little tree gallery is pleased to present the first of two summer student shows. Earlier in the year we had an open call for show proposals, inviting anyone currently in a Bay Area art program. The summer student show series is designed to give students a professional gallery experience and is a way for little tree to showcase fresh and exciting voices. After numerous entries we choose the two best proposals, and we’re excited to share the talent with you.

Sehwon Min’s work has an immediate power to transfix the viewer. Ms. Min has a heightened sense of color, resulting in intense and soothing abstractions.

Ms. Min finds her inspiration in nature. For the work in this show, she brought her camera to local parks and took pictures of decaying tree bark. Once home she uploaded the images to her computer and manipulated them to her liking. Satisfied, she then started her paintings, using the digital images as reference. The results are layered, fleshy burst of color.

The largest of the pieces resembles an organic, spiky spine. Over five feet tall, the work shoots tingling internal sensations down the back. The viewer sees and feels what is hidden within us all. Yet more importantly we are reminded of the repetitive beauty commonplace in nature.

Sehwon Min is in her last year of graduate studies in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, where Ms. Min also received her Post Baccalaureate. Ms. Min received her BFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, South Korea. She has shown in the Bay Area and South Korea, where she is from.

For inquiries and questions regarding the show, please contact J. Brent Large by phone at (415) 643-4929 or by email at info@littletreegallery.com.