Nightlarking
Julia Gould & He-myong Woo
Curated by Cynthia Zhou
Friday, May 2, 2025 – Sunday, June 15, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2025 | 6-9pm | Free-To-Attend
Presented in Gallery Two
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Nightlarking is a two-person show featuring painter Julia Gould and sculptor He-myong Woo, curated by Cynthia Zhou. Great danes weave through glowing pink trees, decaying wood cocoons itself in indigo mulberry paper; Gould and Woo build a forest that spirals and stretches, burns and cools. Gould’s chromatic flora and fauna bloom over everything, forming landscapes where personal mythology questions fantasies and desires. Woo evokes burial rituals by swathing dead wood in handmade paper, reconstituting what has passed into a new body and form. As if following a circadian rhythm, the work travels from the feverish luminescence of night to the cool blue light of morning, and then back again.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Julia Gould (b. 1999) is an American artist living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Julia holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she majored in Painting, and minored in Printmaking (2022). Julia’s work has been exhibited and/or awarded by organizations such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the YoungArts Foundation in Miami, Andrew Reed Gallery in Tribeca, T & Y Projects in Tokyo, and the National Society for Arts and Letters in Washington DC. In addition she has lectured in the Baltimore area along with exhibiting in solo and invitational, juried exhibitions.
He-myong Woo (b. 1987) is a New York City based multidisciplinary artist working across sound, image, sculptor and performance. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. He-myong’s work has been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, Nevada and Washington D.C. He is a member of the Korean American Artist Collective (KAAC) and co-curated the inaugural KAAC group exhibition, Han. Additionally he has given lectures at the National Museum of Asian Art-Smithsonian Institution and the North American Hand Papermakers conference.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Cynthia Zhou is an artist, designer, and poet based in Philadelphia. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, Euphrat Museum in Cupertino, Tufts University Art Galleries, and more. She is a National YoungArts Foundation Winner, an Adobe Creative Jam Finalist, and was recognized at the White House as a 2019 Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She holds a BA in Design from the University of Pennsylvania and received the Best in Show Award for the 2023 Design Thesis Exhibition. Zhou is currently a member of the Philadelphia artist collective/gallery Vox Populi.
