KOURI + CORRAO GALLERY
SANTA FE, USA
Kouri + Corrao Gallery
Kouri + Corrao is a Santa Fe-based contemporary art gallery dedicated to increasing the overall visibility of emerging and mid-career artists to international collectors and institutions. The diversity of artists represented is the foundation of the gallery’s success and integral to what they perceive as the gallery model of the future.
Kouri + Corrao placed work in national institutions, international private museums and highly regarded family collections. Recently, the gallery has been accepted to show at the Venice Biennale 2022 via the European Cultural Center, and intend to continually expand their global presence through prominent international art fairs.
Korean-American artist Jen Pack's work embodies a unique space between painting and sculpture. Utilizing fabric and thread to construct art that is simultaneously architectural and whimsical, Pack challenges the viewer to reconsider the artistic products associated with traditional feminine craft while referencing masculine heritage.
This new body of work of vibrantly colored thread and fabric embroidered on black vellum, and sewn swaths stretched over poplar frames embraces a re-emergence from darker times – one that illuminates light amongst the shadows. Each piece of vellum is framed with double paned museum glass, which allows ambient light to emit from within. The frame also encases the excess thread and remnants at the bottom of the frame, seemingly breaking the 2D work into 3D territory. A minimalist solo presentation of 5 works on vellum and 2 stretched fabric works allow Pack's delicate color exploration to shine.
Jen Pack, Walk-in Rainbow, 2018, Thread and Hardware, 10 x 18 x 15 inches
Jen Pack, In Ancient Orbiting, a Golden Shadow Whisper-Hisses… (this is the beginning of inquiry, not the end), 2021, Pieced Fabric Stretched On Wood Frame, 52.5 x 28.5 x 7 inches
Jen Pack, In Your Tart Brightness, You Can Already Fly (take me with you, little one), 2021, Pieced Fabric Stretched On Wood Frame, 24 x 27 x 7 inches
Jen Pack, The volcano is erupting in the field!, 2021, Colored Pencil And Thread On Vellum, 30.5 x 27.25 inches
Jen Pack, This wandering grief is not misplaced and not a lostness. It belongs., 2021, Colored Pencil And Thread On Vellum, 30.5 x 27.25 inches
Jen Pack, I am the shape of me, and you are the shape of you., 2021, Colored Pencil And Thread On Vellum, 12 x 12 inches
Jen Pack, We can heal back through time., 2021, Colored Pencil And Thread On Vellum, 11 x 17 inches