About this Event
It's a critique night. But not just any critique night.
Manchester AiR is bringing two of its visiting artists, Wol-Un and Darbylyn Dawid, out of the studio and into the Bookery to host an open evening of honest conversation about art and process. One paints dead fish with unsettling precision. The other works in an ink tradition that is centuries old and refuses to stay that way. Both want to look at your work and talk about it.
Bring something you are working on, something finished, or just yourself. All levels welcome, all mediums welcome, no pretension.
Whether you want an honest eye on your work or just want to be in a room full of people who take creativity seriously, this is the night for it.
Free and open to the community!
About the Artist
b. 1999 Wol-Un is a calligrapher and ink painter, born in Seattle, Washington. Living and making on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Wol-Un was born to parents of Korean and Chinese-Filipino descent.
Alumni of Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, contributor to the Wing Luke Museum, the City of Seattle, 2024 solo exhibition at the Postmark Center for the Arts, and recipient of the 2024 Audain Foundation Travel Award. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Canada, and is featured in private collections internationally.
Wol-Un is a pseudonym, in Korean, the concept of an art-name is known as, “ho” (호, 號). Wol-Un is a name derived from the Chinese characters, hanja (한자, 漢字) for Moon (Wol, 월, 月) and Cloud (Un, 운, 雲).
You can find more of Wol-Un's artwork here!
About the Artist
Darby Dawid is an oil painter originally from New England and currently based in Brooklyn. Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2019, Darby has spent her career looking closely at the things most people look away from. Worms. Crustaceans. Fish. The wet, reflective, gloriously unglamorous creatures that exist just outside the edge of what we consider worthy of attention. Her work finds harmony in incongruency. A kind of quiet argument that nothing is beneath a second look.
You can find more of Darby's artwork here!
Event venue & nearby stays
Bookery Manchester, 844 Elm Street, Manchester, United States
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