Auburn: City Hall Gallery Misook Jung and Alex Kamola Contact: Mary Ellen Bowers, Arts & Events Assistant 253-931-3043 arts@auburnwa.gov<mailto:arts@auburnwa.gov> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 3, 2022 ___________ The City of Auburn and the Auburn Arts Commission are pleased to present the work of Misook Jung and Alex Kamola in a joint exhibition at the City Hall Gallery, on view May 3 - July 6, 2022. Born in Korea, artist Misook Sohn-Jung gained experience in drawing while working in an animation studio, and now creates landscape-based paintings that seek to "transfer the movement of time and space that cannot be translated by the camera onto canvas, in an attempt to capture the flow of this age." Local ceramicist Alex Kamola uses high fired clays and traditional hand-building techniques to create pots whose inspirations "come from the forest; the forms of slugs, chanterelle mushrooms, birds, tree roots... I think of my pots as my footprints - formed in soft, wet mud and hardened to stone by pressure and heat." [An image of an acrylic painting by Misook Jung. The painting shows the mossy, gnarled roots of trees reaching down a soil bank to a body of water.] [Photograph of a ceramic vessel by artist Alex Kamola. The exterior of the vessel is a tawny and textured while the interior appears to shine with green, gray and maroon glaze.] Left: Life of the Forest, Misook Jung, Acrylic. Right: Bottle, Alex Kamola, High fired stoneware clay. City Hall Gallery 25 W. Main Street, Auburn, WA 98001 ____________________________________________________________________________ This art installation is coordinated through the City of Auburn, Parks, Arts & Recreation Department and with the support of the Auburn Arts Commission. Questions? Mary Ellen Bowers, Arts & Events Assistant 253-931-3043 or arts@auburnwa.gov<mailto:arts@auburnwa.gov> Information on the City of Auburn's arts programming can be found at www.auburnwa.gov/arts<http://www.auburnwa.gov/arts> or call 253-931-3043. Allison Hyde (she/her/hers) | Arts Coordinator City of Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation 253.804.5043, ahyde@auburnwa.gov<mailto:ahyde@auburnwa.gov> More ARTS Than You Imagined!<http://www.auburnwa.gov/arts> The information contained in this electronic communication is personal, privileged and/or confidential information intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity(ies) to which it has been addressed. If you read this communication and are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication, other than delivery to the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail. Thank you.