‘Luna City’

Douglas Holden & Lucia Jeesun Lee
07.11-22.11.2014 

Luna City is an exhibition between two artists working in 180-degree perspective, in celebration of The Moon and The Sun aligning in opposition. With two spaces facing each other in parallel, Lucia Jeesun Lee's Shell City (below) is a site-specific existential home in-between cities, while Doug Holden's moon behaving badly (above) recreates the anarchy in between.

Shell City:  When you move from one city to another, the notion of home becomes somewhere that exist in-between. Our sense of home now is constantly moving with us, just like shells of snails. What’s in each of our shells is a city intersecting many places that we become ourselves, feel ourselves, or see ourselves in. We are carrying our in between home city with us.

moon behaving badly: The moon has been a reliable and stable heavenly body since recorded time. In this piece I want to displace our species, to demonstrate that nothing is predictable, there is nothing controlling us, as such our beliefs must come from someplace in between. It is a negation of religion, of government, of ideology – it is pure anarchy.

Artist Intro:

Lucia Jeesun Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in digital media. Her journey as an artist started from New York. She explores creating platforms that bridge between people, places, objects, and stories. She also likes projecting videos on everyday spaces/objects to discover the ghosts that hide underneath. Her works have been shown in Platoon, Kunsthalle Seoul, Urban Media Lab at iMAL, Brussels, and Art Center Nabi The 13th Seoul International New Media Festival, 3LD Art and Technology Center(New York), The 12th Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival (New York) and various venues in Seoul and New York. She is a current resident artist at Fab Lab Seoul, where she often give workshops at, and has taught in Stevens Institute of Technology, Hostos Community College of CUNY as an Assistant Adjunct Professor and at Queens Museum of Art as an educator.

Doug Holden is an artist versed in video, intaglio, 35mm and large format photography, lost wax bronze foundry, as well as drawing and painting. He has presented exhibits, screenings, and performances at the University of Maryland, the Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Prince George Community College in Maryland, and the Theatre Project in Washington D.C. Holden has worked as a fine art preparator, exhibitions installer, and videographer at the Center for Art and Visual Culture, was an artist/educator with Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP), and assisted artist Nova Noah with the Ark Project, retrofitting a potato farm into grounds for art. Holden has traveled extensively and is currently living in Seoul, Korea.