Blue Blue Blue, a Solo Exhibition by Jean Oh
AHL Foundation is pleased to present Blue Blue Blue, a solo exhibition by New York–based artist Jean Oh, on view from May 2 through May 30, 2026, at AHL Foundation Gallery. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, May 2, from 6–8 PM.
This exhibition is presented as part of the AHLumni Collective program, supported by the Founder Sook Nyu Lee Kim Alumni Invitational Grant. Jean Oh was selected for the program through an open call reviewed by juror Eugenie Tsai.
In this exhibition, Oh transforms the gallery into a shifting environment shaped by concealment and revelation, using nobang—a translucent Korean silk traditionally used in hanbok. Suspended fabric panels respond to light, air, and the movement of viewers, creating a spatial experience that is constantly in flux rather than fixed.
Working with both machine and hand stitching, Oh layers and sews the fabric while allowing wrinkles, misalignments, and exposed seams to remain visible. These elements function not simply as material traces, but as expressions of tension between visibility and invisibility, control and unpredictability. Light activates the surfaces, bringing certain forms into focus while dissolving others, evoking the ways emotions, memories, and relationships emerge and recede over time.
The panels gather without a fixed order—leaning, drifting apart, and overlapping unpredictably—forming a spatial rhythm that echoes the ways people cluster and disperse within shared environments. As viewers move through the installation, they encounter continuously shifting perspectives, where fragmented bodily forms appear and fade, and perception itself remains unstable.
Oh’s practice has evolved from painting into spatial installation. Figures once contained within the pictorial plane are now extended into physical space through textile structures that envelop and engage the viewer. Through this transition, she explores the fragile balance that arises within imperfection and instability, foregrounding the presence of the human body within a fluid, relational environment.
Jean Oh is a New York–based artist working across textile installation and sewn painting. Her practice investigates instability through sustained material processes, combining sewing, painting, and drawing to construct layered surfaces shaped by repetition, misalignment, and repair. She works with nobang, a translucent Korean silk, to create spatial environments that respond to light, air, and viewer movement, continually shifting what is revealed and concealed.
Oh received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Pratt Institute. She is the recipient of the AHLumni Collective Grant and the Silver Prize from the AHL–T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards. Her work has been exhibited at Eli Klein Gallery, Field Projects, and AHL Foundation, as well as internationally in Korea and Germany.