Paratrooper
Paratrooper up close
Artist Entry #10/Sculptor #5 Do-Ho Suh
Suh is a sculpture artist who grew up in South Korea, he received his BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and received his MFA in sculpture from Yale; he no resides in the United States. He is a very established artist, with his exhibits being shown all over the world, he works with a variety of media, he is like Tim Hawkison and has limited himself to an specific media and is not afraid to create art out of anything.
His work is very detailed and usually large in scale and usually includes some kind of politically motivated statement. The image at the top expresses this, the piece is called "someone" from afar it looks like a large metal cloak that span across a room, but when you get up close the the cloak is made of a hundred thousands of name stamped military dog tags. This piece acts as a tribute to all the fallen soldiers in our military who died for this country; the cloak represents the single a man of power.
The other piece "Parartrooper I" is an example of his attention to detail, standing back from the piece it looks like a small stainless steel paratrooper statue trying to pull in his parachute that appears to be attached to the wall. When you look closer at the parachute, the parachute line are sewn in to the fabric that spell out random names. I couldn't image how difficult this was to create this piece; the fine details with the thousands of lines coming off the parachute perfectly is just amazing. Like Tim Hawkison, Do-Hu Suh is another artist that drives me to become more creative with my art and to not be afraid to try new medias.
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