Water You Cannot Hold
“Water You Cannot Hold” is an exhibition featuring new paintings by Samantha Haan, and a Film by Heehyun Choi. Both artists are working with researched based themes around abstraction, language, and archive. This exhibit will be February and March 2025.
Sam Haan
Samantha Haan (Born 1997)
I make system based works that investigate the building blocks of language. My paintings and drawings are influenced by textile structures, mathematical theory, and literature to explore the fragile and flexible nature of language. Combining this research my paintings make the form of language visible as an abstract sign that shifts depending on the reader. In this group of paintings there are fragments of semi-illegible text from Sappho, translated by Anne Carson, The Mundus by N.H. Pritchard, and Event Factory by Renee Gladman. These texts are poetic and think about the form and quality of language adding an embedded layer of context and meaning to my sequences of geometric forms.
She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2019. Has shown Nationally at The Front, in New Orleans, Ice Cream Social, In New York, and Participated in Feria Clandestina in Miami. She has also shown locally at Kiosk Gallery, Ekru Project, and Beco Gallery. She is the Co-Founder of United Colors Gallery and is currently a resident at Holsum Studios.
Manuscript (Doric) 2024 Ink,Flashe, and Colored Pencil on Watercolor Paper 30” x 22.5” $500
Manuscript (Dust Motes) 2024 Ink and Flashe on Rives BFK 42” x 29.75 $700
Manuscript (Move) 2024 Ink,Flashe, and Colored Pencil on Watercolor Paper 30” x 22.5” $500
Fragment 11 (After Sappho) 2023 Flashe and Acrylic on Canvas 30” x 40” $2000
Fragment 30 (After Sappho) 2023 Flash and Acrylic on Canvas 30” x 40” $2000
Fragment (Sensation) 2024 Flashe and enamel on aluminum Composite Panel 25” x 60” $2500
Fragment (Distort) 2025 Flashe and Enamel on Panel 30” x12” $700
Fragment (Refract) 2025 Flashe and Enamel on Panel 30” x12” $700
"Form I Say" 2024 Flashe and enamel on Panel 66” x 10” $2000
Fragment (Synchronized) 2024 Flashe and enamel on aluminum Composite Panel 25” x 20” $1000
Fragment (Sympathy) 2024 Flashe and enamel on aluminum Composite Panel 25” x 20” $1000
Fragment (Symbiotic) 2024 Flashe and enamel on aluminum Composite Panel 25” x 20” $1000
"Broadside 1" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside 2" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside 3" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside 1" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” Sold
"Broadside 5" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside 6" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside " Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside 7" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside 8" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” sold
"Broadside 10" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside 11" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
"Broadside 12" Flashe and Colored Pencil on Handmade paper, 2025, 8” x 10” $200
Manuscript (Hearing) 2025 Ink and Graphite on Rives BFK 42” x 29.75 $700
Manuscript (Listening) 2025 Ink and Graphite on Rives BFK 42” x 29.75 sold
Manuscript (Mobius) 2025 Ink and Flashe on Rives BFK 42” x 29.75 $700
Heehyun Choi
This Isn't What It Appears 이것은 보이는 것과 다르다
This Isn’t What It Appears 이것은 보이는 것과 다르다
Super 8, color, sound, 19 min. 34 sec., 2022
Among everything obscure in an image, there is always the camera. This Isn’t What It Appears reconstructs
and radicalizes the ways to see and interpret archival photographs of Korean women taken in the 1950s by
American soldiers stationed in South Korea. This film attempts to reveal the camera within the frame, not as
an omniscient eye but as a reciprocal medium that subverts the hierarchy in an image.
While these photos feature Korean women performing in the US military bases in South Korea on various
occasions, detailed information about the women and the photographers is absent. The film juxtaposes such
unfilled gaps in history with the hierarchy between the subject and the photographer to highlight what has
been excluded from the frame due to the inevitable subjectivity of the camera. The super8 film of 20 minutes
of running-time is an introspective process that I struggle to capture the frame, the behind, and the shadow
of the photographs.View the entire film at ION gallery through March 28th