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Misty Choi – CuppyBreak: A Cup of My Own

a grid of eighty-two different ceramic cups

OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday, October 3 from 7-10PM

Misty Choi’s work, CuppyBreak: A Cup of My Own, begins with close attention to ordinary gestures: drinking coffee, holding a cup, eating, resting, and moving through a room. Through repetition, she discovers subtle differences within the familiar and considers how everyday experiences accumulate within the body.

When an object breaks, fails to function, or unsettles the body’s orientation, habitual actions must be reconsidered. Rather than correcting these unstable conditions, Choi remains with them. Spilling, discomfort, imbalance, and vulnerability become opportunities to adapt and relate differently to objects, environments, and one another.

Moving beyond the familiar form and predetermined function of the cup, Choi allows form to emerge through the physical process of making and the behavior of the material. Rather than working toward a fixed idea of completion, she trusts the decisions that arise through repeated testing and adjustment. Across books, sculpture, performance, and installation, failure and disorientation become methods for paying closer attention, discovering unfamiliar forms, and creating new possibilities for connection. The cup becomes not simply an object, but a point of departure for developing forms and ways of relating that are her own.

The exhibition will culminate in a participatory café created in collaboration with Artists Village Café. Throughout the exhibition, visitors’ movements and interactions within the space will be documented. These accumulated traces will serve as material for a future performance activation, allowing the work to continue evolving in response to the bodies that move through it.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Misty Choi (b. 1993, Seoul) explores disorientation, adaptation, and the unstable relationship between bodies and the environments they inhabit. Through performative sculpture, installation, and social practice, she transforms everyday systems and gestures into unfamiliar encounters that destabilize normative ways of moving, behaving, and relating to space.

SUPPORT

CuppyBreak: A Cup of My Own is supported in part, through Misty Choi’s artist-in-residence at GCAC, by The Segerstrom Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.