https://www.jenniferkimsohn.com/about daily 0.75 2013-12-10 https://www.jenniferkimsohn.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528615417320-B32KXOUA4C9OQD7998KR/KimSohn_Untethered2.jpg Social Issues Untethered 7 x 3 feet Butcher paper, thread, watercolor 2016 In 2018 alone, 65.8 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes due to climate-related disasters, conflicts, persecution and violence. Although a small gesture, this visual journal is an homage to our brethren who have become refugees and asylum seekers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528962416250-U6PC10KNNSK0TPC1G5V0/KimSohn_refugee-barbed+wire1.jpg Social Issues Untethered detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528615125988-8YNDJ29W4JXZL0NXND8C/KimSohn_Untethered_detail300.jpg Social Issues Untethered detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528613190592-OCQT2UWUE4QC732JMDWU/KimSohn_HandToMouth_72.jpg Social Issues Hand to Mouth 60 x 48 inches Papier-mâché, thread 2016 These thread drawings of begging hands are intentionally unraveled in parts to draw attention to the vulnerability and dire state of homeless people’s lives. By stitching on a water-soluble material and controlling the unraveling, I’ve created images of homeless people and their hands in various stages of being undone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528613126073-1YZFRCQFSMLZ2P5VK6JX/HandToMouth_detail.jpg Social Issues Hand to Mouth detail each plate size: 4" x6" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528612526685-ZRZKJAM8OW19YTCF7AIQ/KimSohn_HandToMouth_detail72.jpg Social Issues Hand to Mouth Detail of two plates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528612553024-NBMIGC0UOE8E10UIZZGE/ComfortGirls_72.jpg Social Issues The Comfort Girls Installation, 70h x 70w x 36d inches Mulberry paper, newspaper, wood, barbed wire 2015 Over seventy years after World War II, the lack of acknowledgement of and apology for the systemized rape of young Korean girls by the Japanese army still threatens the diplomatic and economic ties between the two countries. But rather than using these atrocities as political currency I hope that we look for ways to stop such violation and abuse of our most vulnerable from repeating again. Using a unique Korean paper felting technique, joomchi, the numerous holes on the socks in traditional Korean socks, buh-sun, were made by over-rubbing the paper to the point of puncturing the surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1532044436024-4ETX29ABRR3108N5I6CX/IMG_1053.jpg Social Issues Black Lives Matter: 84x60 muslin, ink, acrylic 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1530425825023-CE03IX76SQMNHI3MFIMW/1F+Slideslam-+Sohn3.jpg Social Issues Garment Workers Totem Installation size varies: poles 5-8 feet tall Fabric remnant, PVC pipes, pipe insulation 2008 The global textile industry market value topped 700 trillion dollars in 2018, employing over 65 million people worldwide. Any garment one buys in a retail shop, we may assume, has touched the lives of some hundreds of people. When I learned the vastness of our textile industry’s reach, I wanted to make a group of totems using discarded fabric remnants to celebrates the intimacy and kinship that we share through commerce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529987630862-W2ZCG5PK16HBVQUAWUUZ/_DSC8811.jpg Social Issues Lean-to Installation, varying in size card boards, watercolor, threads 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529987780029-FSA0298B67EWMD65QF9N/_DSC8810.jpg Social Issues Lean-to https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529557615038-VVFP4QL41U765YA8ZJS6/IMG_1545.jpg Social Issues Lean-to detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529987845453-RB9R7QW13U3MV0W1SW5L/_DSC8821.jpg Social Issues Lean-to detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529992438747-97JZW49X73YK8UJEDDKO/IMG_1548.jpg Social Issues Lean-to detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529992510735-CSYIUWWXE108RB8281PG/IMG_1496.jpg Social Issues Lean-to detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529992547961-MPF2J2ED7AV1KB3MHDDY/IMG_1498.jpg Social Issues Lean-to detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529992590206-AM9LO3MQPMSGU1C93T08/IMG_1503.jpg Social Issues Lean-to detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/9651c0a2-fe12-4d66-bd1b-d4daa9e74a8d/IMG_4746.JPG Social Issues - Make it stand out Too Young and Too Dangerous https://www.jenniferkimsohn.com/what-we-do daily 0.75 2024-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528606187419-O9FW4ZM1K4TB837WZ3EH/KimSohn_Spoonful.jpg Environmental Issues Spoonful of Honey 20 x35 x3 embroidery hoops, organza, thread 2012 Many hours were spent in hand-embroidering these bees, but they pale compared to the entire life times' work of three bees in producing a spoonful of honey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528610511767-PR0BHRUSP0MJ3UKPF83R/Hive+in+Exile.jpg Environmental Issues The Lost Tribe 28 x 17 x 28 inches Poultry netting, organza, thread 2013 A fragmented torso stands as a metaphor for the worldwide crises that the bees face: pesticides, disease bred from feeding on monocrops, and human-engineered, forced migration. As if in desperation, hand-embroidered bees swarm a human-shaped, yet headless, hive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528611465388-K4NLSBVFGQ5DXEVZT8L7/Vanishing.jpg Environmental Issues Vanishing Bees Installation slide sleeves, ink, light box and catalogue drawers 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528606341418-5DS9T1XM78EOJ7TNIKJQ/kimsohn_vanishing_detail.jpg Environmental Issues Detail of Vanishing Bees, Light box This installation visually explores the collapse of bee colonies. Each drawer holds hand drawn bees on slide sleeves, and the growing number of slides documents the increasing cases of lost bee hives reported since 2005 to 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528610565599-Z8VAWQ2X68K5NN3X2G7D/toxic+habits.web.jpg Environmental Issues Toxic Habits IInstallation: varying in length 11 x 72 x 5 inches Cotton remnant, 2-liter soda bottles 2010 These cotton frogs are fashioned after actual deformed ones found near industrial cornfields in Minnesota. Monocrop farming, such as corn and cotton generate massive amount of toxins and pollution: from their almost complete dependency to chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides to carcinogenic bi-products from processing the crop into textile in case of cotton. However what drives these high-yield cash-crop framing is closely tied to our consumer habits. By displaying deformed frogs in 2-liter soda bottles, I aim to direct our attention to the causality of our toxic habits: choosing convenience over environmental health, fast fashion over sustainability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1541524555164-C95Z548649HAUEZ2WT75/IMG_2943.jpg Environmental Issues World Without, triptych 43w x 25h inches, Paper, thread, watercolor 2018 In this artwork, the silhouettes of silverback gorilla, black rhinoceros and African elephant overlap on the continent of Africa. Elephants create grassland and waterholes for zebras, warthogs, cheetahs, gazelles and wildebeest and more. Black rhinos also help diversify and enrich the savanna plants and thereby grazing habitat for antelopes, zebras and gazelles. Mountain gorillas, which live in two national preserves in Uganda and Republic of Congo, thin out tropical forest canopies to balance the plant life and are one of the great seed dispersers of that ecosystem. All African wildlife will suffer when these three giants are gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528610457828-GC8O7389U0DRB9Y2LP8O/KimSohn_WalkinMyShoes_72.jpg Environmental Issues Walk in Their Shoes Installation: varying in size Reclaimed shoes, photo transfer 2014 Displayed on the platform are Black rhinoceros’ feet on a threesome of tennis shoes, Hawksbill sea turtle flippers on sneakers, feet of Nene geese (the official bird of Hawaii) on women’s sandals, snow leopard’s paws on baby Crocs, a monarch butterfly and Macaya breast-spot frog on baby’s canvas loafers, and a mountain gorilla’s paws on boots. These are some of the animals on the critically endangered animal list that need our ardent advocacy for their habitat conservation and anti-poaching enforcement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529990242015-O6GKM25EQC8TVC8TC0CE/GiveAndTake_300.jpg Environmental Issues Give and Take: Deadly Connivance 70 x 70 x 28 inches Cotton, polyester, thread 2017 This piece explores the complicated issues surrounding our dependency on the fossil energy industry. The two hands, in a gracious gesture of giving and taking, are not as simple as they seem. The hands are composed of the logos of various oil and automobile companies. With this piece, I pose a question about how we can balance the interests of corporations, consumers and society to mitigate the toll that fossil fuels take on the health of our environment.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528961327974-9HLQNG86AVAN8WB36RP9/Kimsohn_FragilePackage.jpg Environmental Issues https://www.jenniferkimsohn.com/partners daily 0.75 2018-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528613924601-ZPL7MFJOVVMQB5N6VVIW/DSC02000+2.jpg More Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1530593991842-BIDLRGIBUSCGLEEKI2PM/namesake.web.jpg More Stories Namesake: This is a story of what it was like to shed my identity as Jungeun and to take another as Jennifer in my New American home. 8.5h x 16"w paper, yarn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1530594858774-H9B1KD7MVHYYP7EA72JG/24_Sohn_TheAbsenceofa.jpg More Stories Absence of "a": As an immigrant, first we hone our observational skills then often we notice that so much of what we see and believe is not on terra firma, yet we continue to see what we think should be there. 3" x 3" x3" cotton threads, Fomcore 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529557158903-OAQHBKVMYBWUDP8UXQWL/DSC_7202+2.jpg More Stories Symbiosis: echinoderms, sea urchins, were my inspiration. Acclimating to new culture is like being at home with the strange and the discomforting and still learning to find ease with them. 2"h x 24"w x 24"d Clay, Carpet samples 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528614199149-Z9MNOLJP5ZTKWIP103FE/TwoSidesOfStory_72-pp.jpg More Stories Two Sides of a Story: My three boys, like any siblings close in age, would argue often and turn to me to arbitrate and decide whose perspective was right. These baskets, woven in newspaper full of opinions and its angles of stories reminded me of my boys arguments that they aptly spun in their favor. 8"h x 15"w x 8"d newspaper, lacquer 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528614264477-H88U81N2DP4IMT1TMKP7/metamorphsis1.jpg More Stories Growing Overnight: Each year the drawers would fill with outgrown jeans of our three boys. Like butterflies casting their cocoons, they were reminder of the boy's impending metamorphosis to adulthood. 2"h x24"w x6"d Window screen, threads 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528614826365-ZPWBVJ7AKLRJTQS5PJWZ/JenniferSohn08-6.JPG More Stories My Three Boys: One is all shiny but sensitive inside, one is beautiful like a drawing and has a temper that runs hot to cold, and one is ingenious who can make a fabric out of a pipe. And these are my three boys 3"h x 24"w x 9"d Gutter guard, Window screen, Pipe Insulator, Fabric remnants 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528615635367-39ZBWOM9V2JPXJ2TZGRP/DSC02000+2.jpg More Stories Breath 48 x48 wool and synthetic yarn 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1530427056584-Y5EKYTV4QHJHEVJO0C5P/jkimsohn_broken+gaze.jpg More Stories Do You See What I See?; Drawing Anime eyes was my favorite doodling during what seemed like interminable school days in Korea. With it, I drew how I feel as an immigrant, always wondering whether what I saw is what others saw. 72 x48 muslin, Ink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1529557040827-AS0GWF8XBX52KZ9UNIOF/IMG_0089+2.jpg More Stories Do You See What I See?-sketch 36 x 26 muslin, ink 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528614015682-JSKGD9NLRIHCSDHKCN3Y/glee_jkimsohn.jpg More Stories Glee 11x9 charcoal drawing, threads 2017 https://www.jenniferkimsohn.com/home daily 1.0 2018-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1530815353513-MZ8C57KZTMMF4VJ5MLGS/DSC_9429.jpg Home https://www.jenniferkimsohn.com/take-action daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://www.jenniferkimsohn.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528607164149-CYIH0Z6Z7MMIAM39A1AW/IMG_0465.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608444899-X3C42Y9SX4G3THT5DKQC/IMG_1455.jpg Paintings Season of Passion Oil 24 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608483184-XX8ZSM78P2028OB3XYVS/IMG_1456.jpg Paintings Bridge over Cosumnes River Oil 24 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608120418-GMMHGJUEVBZUJVPQVSPI/IMG_1547.jpg Paintings Toby Trail Oil 20 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608164729-6KCVT9XPXELCTJMTQQP3/IMG_0449.jpg Paintings Refuge Oil 24 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608203019-Y5DY4GQRVBURTHE9W8U4/IMG_0494.jpg Paintings Dragon Kite in Alcatraz Oil 24 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528609689081-FP9QY7Q8C4LYR09VJLCL/IMG_0662.jpg Paintings Conversation with a Master/ Diebenkorn Oil 16 x12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608276811-6C45GYVSWGIZS2FJLZDZ/IMG_0675.jpg Paintings Conversations with a Master: Armin Hansen Oil 24 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608059598-9PT9NDV6SSLY7N2HY7FV/IMG_4951.jpg Paintings Conversations with a Master: Armin Hansen Oil 24 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608378256-1AFCYH85SH1OMZL5XXRW/IMG_0710.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608408767-BXG3NRHRDV13O8603A0T/IMG_0788.jpg Paintings Coffee shop in Cuba Oil 24 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1528608562798-L9O1NEPG5DGX0L6D83DV/image-asset.jpeg Paintings Bull on Stilts Oil 11x14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1530732236284-QLINW4U2KPQTQQSVXYJA/IMG_0331.jpg Paintings Conversations with a Master: Paul Gauguin Oil 12x16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/1530732398472-H74TSD1A9CQKCN3Y228G/IMG_0784.jpg Paintings Sugar Mill Oil 24 x24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1ca3b871069912b303be50/0efef8d5-750d-47de-b6b7-b4bb7b9b9ade/9E404D78-E0F7-488C-8B91-FA702CB1347A_1_105_c.jpeg Paintings - 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