Cody Choi : culture cuts

Cody Choi (born 1961 in Seoul, where he still lives). Choi is engaged with painting, sculpturing, installations, ink drawings and computer graphics. Since the1980s, he has been working in Los Angeles and New York. In his works he addresses the media and culture-related conflicts between the Eastern and the Western world and the westernization of Asia. Being considered “Asian” in the US and “American” back home since 2002, his works focus on various areas of conflict related to cultural socialization and assimilation. In relation to Auguste Rodin, Mike Kelley or Gerhard Richter, philosophical as well as esthetic subjects and clichés are worked up in the sense of appropriation art.