Cultural collision and cuteness abound in Jiha Moon’s solo show

ATLANTA CONSTITUITION-JOURNAL
By Felicia Feaster

Jiha Moon draws from her own Korean heritage, and from folk and religious art around the world in her solo show at Alan Avery Art Company, featuring the work “Where Serpents Change Their Skin.” 

Atlanta-based, South Korean-born artist Jiha Moon’s paintings look like contained explosions, the world blown to smithereens. They are explosions of culture; wild, mutating, roiling, head-butting blends of East and West, pop culture and ancient art, craft and crap, the commercial and the eternal, frightening and cute. Herself a hybrid of Korea and America, Moon has taken full advantage of the strange circumstance of straddling multiple worlds in “Where Serpents Change Their Skin,” her clever, culturally omnivorous solo show at Alan Avery Art Company. Part of Moon’s point is the essential mashup nature of all culture, not simply those she has directly experienced, and in “Where Serpents Change Their Skin,” she makes a fascinating, persuasive case. [More]