Stuart Collection: Do Ho Suh - Fallen Star

Do Ho Suh recreates life-size corridors, passages, entryways and intermediate spaces from places he has lived in around the world.0Do Ho Suh strives to touch the emotional register associated with the home and which for him is always in motion. The various spaces which, throughout our lives, become alternating homes and which for him also transcend (country) borders, also come to represent various mental states, precisely as life?s manifold emotional processes. Via these portable architectonic spatialities, Do Ho Suh exhibits his fascination with the concept of?home? seen in the context of a modern human?s global, nomadic existence. What special place is this, what form does this place take and what stories are generated therein? In particular, he examines the psychology that is entailed in feeling at home.

Focusing on Do Ho Suh's works on paper, this unique and insightful volume allows readers to trace the development and progression of the artist's drawing practice. Do Ho Suh's hugely popular installations have been drawing audiences around the world for more than two decades. Their themes of displacement, transience, and longing reflect the artist's own nomadic existence as a Korean émigré. Now this unique volume, which contains numerous previously unpublished drawings and sketches, reveals not only the genesis of Suh's sculptural and installation pieces but also his efforts to translate his artistic motivations to paper using a variety of traditional and non-traditional media. Grouped thematically around ideas of self-exploration, relationships, home, states of transition, and Karma, the book features works in pencil, airbrush, watercolor, rubbings, architectural renderings, and "thread drawings," which are sewn and embedded into handmade pulp. In addition, sketches from the artist's private notebooks show the inception points for the germination of his ideas. This book also includes three essays focusing on Suh's personal journeys, his architectural drawings, and paper sculpture.

Born in 1962 in Seoul, South Korea, Do Ho Suh's art is very much rooted by his own history of migration, having moved to the United States in his late twenties. From his sculptures, installations, and drawings, his works explore the notion of personal space, the boundaries of identity, and the relationship between the individual and the collective body. He is best known for his extraordinary fabric sculptures; carefully rendered full-scale replicas of personal spaces of the artist, from his childhood home in Seoul, to his New York apartment and studio

Four individually framed sheets of graph paper with sketches and text descriptions of proposed installation ideas for the Stuart Collection of outdoor sculpture at UC San Diego. The piece "Fallen Star" was added to the collection in 2012.