Project Description

Abstract art utilizes a visual language of shape, color, and line to depict a composition devoid of recognizable things from nature. Far Out: Movement through Form and Color brings together six contemporary artists whose art practice explores the genre of abstraction. Using meticulous technique, carefully selected media, and wild imagination, each artist coaxes the viewer with idiosyncratic visions that reflect and embody the energy of perpetual motion and change at Union Station.

• Lee Clarke — Syntropic, Chispa Caliente, Spectral Dwarf, Color Portrait, Marker, Frozen Star
• Hadley Holliday — Sim Sala Bim Bam Basala Dusala Din, Halleluwah, Fire Season, Sliver Star, Silver Morning, Oblivious Blue
• Haeley Kyong — Around the World to the Six Continents, One World Many Visions
• Nikko Mueller — reFUgee Camp (Darfur), Port (Los Angeles)
• Eamon Ore-Giron — Breaking A, Holding Pattern #3, The Naked Poem, Red Moon, Night Shade, Square Blossom
• Soonae Tark — In Orange, Hello, 3+1, In Green, Ouverture, Summer Love

About the Artist

LEE CLARKE (b. London, Ontario, Canada) received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, in 2001, and MFA from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2003. In 1999, he received a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design’s study abroad program, traveling to Pont Aven, France. Clarke’s art has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

HADLEY HOLLIDAY (b. Kansas City, Missouri) received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Over the last few years, she has been working on drawing all the flowers at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a seemingly endless project. Her paintings explore a collision of geometric abstraction, ritual experimentation, broken systems, forgotten rules, mistakes and play. Holliday’s work has been exhibited internationally, including in solo exhibitions at ACME, Taylor de Cordoba, Carl Solway Gallery and SolwayJones.

HAELEY KYONG received a BFA in painting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Kyong’s paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States, including Jacksonville International Airport, Florida; the Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts; the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, New Jersey; the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware; the Dishman Art Museum of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas; the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission in North Carolina; Woman Made Gallery in Chicago; the Sarah Silberman Art Gallery of Montgomery College of Rockville, Maryland; the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Her paintings are in private and corporate collections including the United Medical—St. Barnabas Health & Medical Group in Bayonne and Lyndhurst, New Jersey; and Park Medical Management and Med Magic LLC, EHR Software Services in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

NIKKO MUELLER (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University, California, in 2003, and BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2000. Mueller has had solo exhibitions at Angles Gallery and Sam Lee Gallery, and his work has been included in exhibitions at art venues throughout the United States and in Europe, including Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Indiana), Sweeney Art Gallery (Riverside, California), Museum of Modern Art, Minsk (Belarus).

EAMON ORE-GIRON (b. 1973) received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute (1996) and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2006). He has had solo exhibitions at LAXART, Los Angeles (2015); Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2014); MUCA ROMA, Mexico City (2006); Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005) and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia (2005). His work has been included in groups shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Prospect 3, New Orleans; the Perez Art Museum, Miami, and Deitch Projects, New York. Ore-Giron’s work has been covered in The New York Times, ArtForum, ANP Quarterly, and SFAQ, among other publications. Eamon Ore-Giron is based in New York and Los Angeles.

SOONAE TARK (b. South Korea) received her BFA from Dongduk Women’s University in Seoul, S. Korea, and her MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France. She has had solo exhibitions in the United States, Korea and France. Her work has been included in over 100 juried and invitational group exhibitions across the United States and was exhibited at the U.S. Embassador’s residence in Seoul, S. Korea (2009 to 2012) by the Art in Embassies Program, Department of State, Washington, DC. Her list of awards includes two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, a National Academy Museum Abby Mural Painting Fund Fellowship, and an Individual Artist Initiative Award from the Queens Council on the Arts. The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, New Jersey-Herald News, Louisiana Magazine, The Advocate, Queens Chronicle and many others have favorably reviewed her work.