GYOPO’s 6th Annual Chuseok Benefit
Honoring chefs Mina Park and Kwang Uh
Baroo, LA Times 2024 Restaurant of the Year
Co-hosted by Samie Kim Falvey and Mia Locks
Sunday, September 15, 2024
11 AM — 2 PM PDT
Hancock Park, Los Angeles
GYOPO invites you to attend our 6th Annual Chuseok Benefit brunch presented by CJ on September 15, 2024, from 11 AM to 2 PM, hosted by Samie Kim Falvey and Mia Locks. This year’s honorees are chefs Mina Park and Kwang Uh of restaurants Baroo and Shiku.
Chuseok, the Korean harvest festival, is a time of coming together to celebrate abundance, express gratitude, and strengthen bonds of solidarity. Join us in marking this significant Chuseok celebration while also supporting GYOPO – a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals. GYOPO is dedicated to fostering progressive, critical, and intergenerational discussions, building community partnerships, and providing educational programs both in Los Angeles and beyond. All proceeds from the benefit go towards GYOPO’s year-round free public programming and community.
Tickets are $400/single, $700/pair, and $325 each for three or more. Children between ages 0-10 are free and must RSVP to enjoy the arts and crafts activities provided by Drawwing Cabinet. The venue address will be provided before the event, and will take place in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. Tickets are expected to sell out, so please purchase them soon to ensure attendance. Tickets will not be sold on-site.
For more information contact development@gyopo.us. For any questions regarding the location of the event, please call 858-218-6084.
For press inquiries contact info@gyopo.us.
Brunch by Chef Kyungbin Min, and refreshments are provided Kikori Whiskey, Rancho Arroyo Grande Vineyards, Dokkaebier, and JUMO.
Music by DJ R.E.A.
Joel Kim Booster, Julie Cho and David Nam, Mary H.K. Choi, Sandy Choi, Merle Dandridge, Andrea Lee Greenburg, Cathy Park Hong, Lisa and Emil Kang, Joan Kee, Christine Sun Kim, Christine Y. Kim, Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim, Maia Ruth Lee, Carol Lim, Na Mira, Ari Osterweis, Randall Park, Kyungmi Shin, Jiwon Choi Song and Steven Song, Ann Soh Woods, Anicka Yi, Jessica Yi
Alex Ahn, Joann Ahn, Jackilin Hah Bloom, Julie Cho, Sandy Choi, Brian Han, Naree Kae, Christine Y. Kim, Eric Kim, Kathleen C. Kim, Kibum Kim, Grace Lee, Yoon Ju Ellie Lee, Danielle Lew, Catherine Park, Jennifer Park, Marianne Park, Ann Soh Woods, Cat Yang
GYOPO’s 5th Annual Chuseok Benefit
Honoring Randall Park
Hosted by Helen Park
Saturday, September 30, 2023
11 AM — 2 PM PDT
Los Angeles
GYOPO invites you to attend our 5th Annual Chuseok Benefit brunch presented by CJ on September 30, 2023, from 11 AM to 2 PM, hosted by Helen Park. This year’s honoree is director, writer, and producer, Randall Park. It’ll be a sun-filled evening to celebrate Park, his contributions to Film & TV, support to the Asian American community, and resolute mission to shift pop culture forward. We also celebrate his directorial debut, Shortcomings (2023) with Imminent Collision, the production company founded by Park alongside producer Hieu Ho and screenwriter Michael Golamco.
Chuseok is the Korean harvest festival, which is a time to gather in the spirit of abundance, gratitude, and solidarity. We hope you will be part of this momentous Chuseok celebration and support GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals generating and sharing progressive, critical, intersectional, and intergenerational discourses, community alliances, and free educational programs in Los Angeles and beyond. All proceeds from the benefit go towards our year-round free public programming and fund GYOPO’s broader mission of generating progressive, critical, intersectional, and intergenerational discourses and community alliances among diasporic Korean cultural producers and art professionals. Tickets will not be sold on site.
For more information contact development@gyopo.us. For press inquiries contact jenny@gyopo.us.
Susan Baik, John Cho, Julie Cho & David Nam, Kathy Choi, Sandy Choi, Merle Dandridge, Samie Kim Falvey, Andrea Lee Greenburg, Cathy Park Hong, Eungie Joo, Lisa and Emil Kang, Joan Kee, Christine Sun Kim, Christine Y. Kim, Kathleen C. Kim, Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim, Miyoung Lee, Brittany Levinson, Carol Lim, Grace Lee Lim, Mia Locks, Catherine Park, Helen Park, Gala Porras-Kim, Jai Lee Wong & Kent Wong, Ann Soh Woods, Anicka Yi, Salle Yoo & Jeff Gray.
The event would not be possible without the hard work of the GYOPO benefit planning committee:
Alex Ahn, Jackilin Hah Bloom, Jenny Bong, Julie Cho, Naree Kae, Grace Kao, Christine Y. Kim, Eric Kim, Kibum Kim, Ji Lee, Yoon Ju Ellie Lee, Danielle Lew, Catherine Park, Jeanha Park, Ann Soh Woods, Cat Yang
“We perceive color in the context with other colors in its environment. In this way, our experience of color is always in resonance with its neighboring colors. ” – Yunhee Min
Produced exclusively for GYOPO, on offer is Yunhee Min’s first foray into lithography titled Yellow Study (for GYOPO). Min’s work explores color and techniques of making, both in terms of pictorial conventions and material processes, to generate unexpected outcomes and spatial effects.
Lithography, one of the earliest forms of printmaking, was selected by the artist to render the nuances of mark making and permutations of compositions in the color yellow. Available as an edition of 50, each monoprint features two distinct color plates in a range of yellows, generating what the artist describes as “a sense of simultaneous vibrations and relationships.” In effect, each print is a unique impression: surfaces with gauze-like layers rendered in varied yellow tones, resulting in optical vibrations. Yellow Study (for GYOPO) is a meditation on the brilliance of yellow reimagining the experience of color as a bodily phenomenon evoking a full range of emotions including warmth, joy and excitement.
YUNHEE MIN
Los Angeles-based artist Yunhee Min (b. Seoul, 1962) received her Master in Design Studies from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Recent site-specific installations and architectural interventions include “Up Close in Distance (bars, flags, pools)” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; “Red Carpet in C,” a collaboration with architect Peter Tolkin at the University of California, Riverside, Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA; “Luminaire Delirium (Equitable Life or soft machine) ”Los Angeles, CA. Min is a Professor of Art at University of CA Riverside and is a current Guggenheim Fellow (2022).
Yellow Study (for GYOPO), 2022
Lithographic print on Somerset paper
27 x 19 inches
Edition of 50
$500
You’re invited to GYOPO’s Fourth Annual Chuseok (Korean harvest festival) Benefit on Sunday, September 11, 2022, celebrating the community of artists, supporters, and friends that have all helped to shape the organization and spirit of GYOPO! We are proud to announce our inaugural honoree, esteemed poet and writer Cathy Park Hong (author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Join us for an intimate, lighthearted, and warm family-style brunch, featuring a menu catered by Bites & Bashes, a hands-on art activity for young guests led by Drawwing Cabinet, music by DJ Boba Bear, and emceed by Brian Park of Feeling Asian podcast. GYOPO supporters Kathy and Anthony Choe host the brunch at their Hancock Park home in Los Angeles (address provided upon ticket purchase).
Proceeds from the annual Chuseok Benefit go towards our year-round free public programming, while also funding GYOPO’s broader mission. This includes galvanizing diasporic Korean cultural producers and art professionals to generate progressive, critical, intersectional, and intergenerational discourses and community alliances. GYOPO is a cross-cultural, multi-issue platform for the Korean diaspora intersecting with other marginalized identities. GYOPO brings together international cultural producers for our vast array of programs including artists, writers, curators, filmmakers, activists, scholars, and creatives, such as Cathy Park Hong, Ava DuVernay, Andrew Ahn, Joan Kee, Minsuk Cho, Christine Sun Kim, Jane Jin Kaisen, Dolores Huerta, Mary H.K. Choi, and many more.
For more information contact development@gyopo.us. For press inquiries contact jeanha@gyopo.us.
The GYOPO Chuseok Benefit is made possible by our generous Patrons, Host Committee, and Sponsors.
Anonymous, Andrew Ahn, Susan Baik and Prem Manjooran, Julie Cho and David Nam, Kathy and Anthony Choe, Sandy Choi, Samie Falvey, Andrea Lee Greenburg, Lisa and Emil Kang, Christine Sun Kim, Christine Y. Kim, Kathleen C. Kim, Laura Kim, Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim, Nancy Kwon Merrihew, Kang Seung Lee and Geoffrey Wall, Maia Ruth Lee, Miyoung Lee, Agnes Lew, Carol Lim, Mia Locks, Grace Oh and John Chan, Helen J. Park, Gala Porras-Kim, Ann Soh Woods, Elaine Yang, Steven Yeun, Anicka Yi, Christopher Yin and John Yoon, Salle Yoo and Jeff Gray
Glove Plenitude, by Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim, is a limited edition of 50 lithographic prints, produced by El Nopal Press, will be sold to benefit the mission of GYOPO. Glove Plenitude is an artwork that reflects and questions the untold and changing narratives within the Deaf community.
Glove Plenitude derives its name from “narrative plenitude,” a term coined by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen describes Asian Americans as living in an economy of “narrative scarcity” where mainstream culture underrepresents, distorts, or erases Asian Americans from stories with “narrative plenitude.” The tensions between narrative scarcity and plenitude exist for all minority groups. Glove Plenitude presents a notion of storytelling that embraces framing and reframing, retelling and repetition, used within the Deaf community to achieve “narrative plenitude.” This concept speaks to Kim’s personal experience as a member of the Deaf community, navigating a world where the majority of what we see in mainstream media is produced through a hearing lens. “There aren’t enough narratives by Deaf people, let alone Asian Deaf. We need to constantly make, tell, and reframe our stories until we reach the point of ‘narrative plenitude’ in my communities, both Deaf and Asian,” says Kim.
In American Sign Language (ASL), the word “frame” is signed with two hands, utilizing both thumbs and index fingers to create a border which encloses the subject. In Glove Plenitude, a rendering of the sign for the word “frame” is layered on paper. Each frame represents the presentation of a narrative that becomes more complete with each layering, reframing, and re-angling. As these gestural images come together to create a whole, “glove scarcity” becomes “glove plenitude.” The hands narrating the story are hidden under gloves, evoking the questions: Whose stories are we telling, who are the storytellers, and for whom are the stories intended? Glove Plenitude is also a call to investigate and reflect on the true intention behind gestures of framing and reframing, performativity, and performance.
Glove Plenitude, 2021
Lithograph
28 ½” x 22”
Edition of 50
$750
GYOPO invites you to attend our Lunar New Year benefit on Thursday, February 11. We will ring in the Year of the Ox with a virtual dinner party (for Los Angeles area deliveries) with friends and some of the most dynamic cultural producers of our Korean diasporic community in Los Angeles. Specially curated doshirak (도씨락) sets, featuring dinner by Baroo, bespoke cakes by Nünchi, an original ceramic cup by Nancy Kwon, and hand-crafted makgeolli by Yongha Brews, all of which will be elegantly wrapped in traditional Korean bojagi (보자기) by Nossi Bojagi, will be delivered to your homes in time for our 6pm Zoom program to hear from our featured artisans and to celebrate Lunar New Year.
All funds raised from our benefit will go directly towards GYOPO’s free public programming.
Tickets are $300 for a single dosirak, and $500 for a pair. (75% tax-deductible portion is $225 and $350, respectively.) Each purchaser will receive a donor acknowledgment letter for tax purposes following the event. Please register and place your order before the dosirak sell out! A private link to the virtual Lunar New Year benefit will be sent once you purchase your ticket.
We are grateful to our event sponsor Helen Park, Helen J Gallery and to our benefit committee: Anonymous, Susan Baik, Commonwealth and Council, Christine Y. Kim, Eric Kim, Ellie Lee, Gala Porras-Kim, Susan Song and David Tsay, Ann Soh Woods, Anicka Yi, John Yoon and Christopher Yin.
Special thanks to Public-Library for in-kind design, Mina and Kwang Uh Park of Baroo, Ellen Lee of Nossi Bojagi, Yong Ha Jeong of Yong Ha Brews, Nancy Kwon, and Lexie Park of Nünchi.
GYOPO invites you to our second annual Chuseok (Korean harvest festival) benefit on September 15th, 2019 at the home of Ann Soh Woods, Korean-American founder of Kikori Whiskey. Join us for a cheerful end-of-summer brunch, featuring food by Genwa, hors d’oeuvres by Bao, drinks by Kikori Whiskey and Discovino, gifts provided by Poketo, and more.
GYOPO is a non-profit organization which interrogates issues around contemporary art, culture, networks, intersectionality, and social justice through free public programming and community alliances. Since its founding in 2017, GYOPO has facilitated numerous artist presentations, lectures, conversations, screenings, and social gatherings which engender greater artistic, cultural, political and political exchange.
We fundraise to provide free public programming to an intergenerational, socio-economically diverse audience. We hope that you will join fellow patrons at this benefit to support the future of GYOPO.
The price of each ticket, minus $100, is tax-deductible. GYOPO is now a 501(c)3 non-profit organization! Human Resources Los Angeles is acting as our fiscal sponsor during this exciting transition and will send a thank you letter to each ticket purchaser, which will document your tax-deductible donation.
Special thank you to our sponsors and host committee:
Alex Ahn, Susan Baik, Jason Haam, Sara Hantman, Christine Y. Kim, Eric Kim, Kibum Kim, Ellie Lee, Gala Porras-Kim, Esther Kim Varet, Ann Soh Woods, Anicka Yi, John Yoon and Christopher Yin
Media sponsorship by Cultured Magazine
GYOPO requests the pleasure of your company at our Inaugural Benefit Rooftop Party at the Petit Ermitage. Join us for a sumptuous end of summer with an evening of sipping premium Hwayo Soju and signature cocktails by award-winning mixologist Cari Hah paired with small bites.
GYOPO is a group of LA-based Korean-American artists, curators, writers, arts professionals and cultural producers who present lectures, programs, and events for the wider community. This fundraiser will enable GYOPO to continue programming, pay speakers and venue fees, and allow free entry for artists, students, and anyone in the community to learn about contemporary Korean and Korean diasporic culture. To learn more about past, present, and future programs, join us on September 20th.
Cari Hah, a wonderfully inventive Korean-American bartender, has created an original cocktail recipe using Hwayo soju for the event. Hah has competed in and won a number of competitions, including the G’vine Gin global competition (2012), Jameson Black Barrel Competition (2015), and Speedrack (regional finalist in 2013, 2015), in addition to working as a bartender, consultant, and brand representative over the years. Hah has honed her craft at many renowned bars, including The Varnish, Cole’s, and Neat. She currently heads the bar program at Big Bar in Los Feliz.
GYOPO is in the process of becoming a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Currently, Human Resources Los Angeles is acting as our fiscal sponsor.
All individual ticket sales are tax-deductible minus $100. Human Resources will send a thank you letter to each ticket purchaser, which will document your tax-deductible donation.
Sponsored by Susan Baik, with generous support from HWAYO, Petit Ermitage, and Steven Song and Jiwon Choi.
Produced for GYOPO in a limited edition of 50, The Writing of Stones (2018) plays on the legibility of the rocks’ forms as a proto-language. Classified into typologies and arranged into sequences, the rock forms mimic the structure of language: they approximate grammatical categories and the proper word order of a coherent sentence. The Writing of Stones was made in response to French philosopher and sociologist Roger Caillois’s book of the same name, L’écriture des pierres, in which he speaks about deciphering naturally occurring forms, not in order to define them but to reveal them as they are. Porras-Kim’s work is made through the process of learning about the social and political contexts that influence the representation of language and history.
The Writing of Stones, 2018
Halftone screenprint
30 x 22 inches
Edition of 50 + 10AP
$500
Shigenobu Twilight is the first “volume” in the Biography series, a new line of ineffable fragrances by groundbreaking conceptual artist Anicka Yi. Biography uses the sensorial experience of scent to challenge traditional notions of femininity and subjectivity. The launch of Biography, to take place later this fall at Dover Street Market, New York, has been a longterm project and lifelong dream for Yi.
Designed by Yi in collaboration with architect Maggie Peng, Shigenobu Twilight is inspired by Fusako Shigenobu, the fabled female leader of the Japanese Red Army. The perfume’s esoteric notes intimate metaphors of Shigenobu’s stateless existence, her exile in Lebanon while yearning for her native Japan. Over a woody base of Lebanese cedar resonate top notes associated with Japan — a chiffonade of shiso, a rip tide of yuzu. Familiar but pungent black pepper, violet bleeding into hinoki cypress, all spire around heart notes of tree nut.
Produced exclusively for GYOPO‘s holiday 2019 multiple, Shigenobu Twilight is a limited edition of 150. Each delicate 10mL bottle serves as a testament to Yi’s acclaimed sculptural vocabulary. The bottle’s 3D-printed mushroom skirt expresses her ongoing fascination with fungal networks. The mushroom motif, a recurring biomotif in Yi’s work, was used most notably in Lifestyle Wars, a diorama featuring live ants that was included in her solo exhibition Life is Cheap (2017) at the Guggenheim Museum.
Shigenobu Twilight, 2019
3-D Printed Resin with acrylic and cedar vitrine
4x4x4 inches
Edition of 150+ 25 AP
$500
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