Art Exhibit: INNATUS FORMA by Kye-Yeon Son

EXHIBITION:  August 30th to October 27th.  RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK:  Thursday, August 30th, 7-9pm.

Award-winning metalsmith presents new exhibition of artworks in Saskatoon.  The Saskatchewan Craft Council is pleased to present Innatus Forma, an exhibition of works by acclaimed metalsmith Kye-Yeon Son.  Born in South Korea, Son received her BFA from Seoul National University and MFA from Indiana University.  She has since exhibited her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in public and commercial galleries across Canada, the United States, South Korea, Germany, Japan, and England.  Son now lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia, teaching at NSCAD University.  Among her many accolades are the 2011 Saidye Bronfman Award (Canada’s national award for fine craft as part of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts), 2006 NICHE Award, and several Awards of Excellence from the Metal Arts Guild in Toronto, Ontario.

This exhibition brings together both sculptural vessels and sculptural wearable brooches made from fine steel wire.  Son meticulously welds the steel wire together to create forms and volumes inspired by the Nova Scotia winter landscape.  In a published catalogue from 2011 “Kye-Yeon Son: Vessel/Jewellery,” Kye describes her connection to the Canadian winterscape: “I am drawn to the beauty and empty feeling of leafless branches during the long Canadian winter.  Rather than bareness or a sense of loss, I see quiet motions growing in harmony with their environment.  This persistent transformation inspires an emotional response in me, and I have tried to interpret this response by poetically abstracting the branching forms.”