Narrow is the Way

Sook Jin Jo, director

Korean born, New York based artist Sook Jin Jo is a multidisciplinary artist. Over the past 35 years she has produced sculptural assemblages, installations, photographs, videos, public works and architecture. Originally because canvas was too expensive for her as a young artist, she started to use plywood and began to explore found wooden materials. Continuing her work with this medium, she has discovered infinite possibilities for painting, sculpture, installation and beyond. She often chose marginalized sites for her outdoor installations and public artworks. Most of them are site-specific and collaborative, working with professionals and local peoples from diverse communities in many countries, including, India, Poland, France, Switzerland, Korea, Bolivia, Sweden, Brazil and the US.

The video works, documentaries and interviews have been made and released by the artist and many institutions and museums, including the National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art in Korea and the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia. The 10-minute documentary film, “Art House”, was shown during the ADFF (Architecture and Design Film Festival in NY) Short Film Walk in 2019.

Jo has exhibited internationally and has been the subject of 40 solo exhibitions including the “Walter Gropius Master Artist Series”, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia; Seoul Museum of Art, Korea; A project collaboration with Immigrants from Latin America, Tenement Museum, New York, NY and over 100 group exhibitions, including the “Lodz Biennale”, Lodz, Poland and the “Gwangju Biennale,” Korea.

Sook Jin Jo is a recipient of many distinguished awards, fellowships, grants and commissions, including a Master Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida; a commission from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; the iaab Fellowship (Christoph Merian Stifung Foundation) in Basel, Switzerland; the Hachonghyun Foundation Artist Award in Seoul, Korea; a Korea Arts Foundation of America (KAFA) Award in Santa Monica, CA; a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in New York; and the Sacatar Foundation Residency Fellowship in Brazil.

Peter Lewis , co-producer & contributing editor

After finishing his studies at the Yale School of Drama, Peter Lewis spent many years working in the Off-Off Broadway New York theatre scene, before appearing in lead and supporting roles in a number of feature films, including "Motherless Brooklyn", "Stone", "Untraceable", "Greater", "The Bourne Legacy", "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", "Pineapple Express", "Down in the Valley" and many others.

Among his many appearances on television, he has appeared in guest starring and recurring roles on “The Black List”, “Mad Men”, “30 Rock”, “Law & Order SVU", “Dirty John: Betty", "Interrogation" and several times on the original "Law & Order". As an actor in film, he has worked opposite such great talents as Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, Cherry Jones, Bruce Dern and many others.

He has appeared on stage in numerous plays, touring nationally with The Acting Company as Joe in Tennessee Williams' "The Long Goodbye" and receiving a Best Actor nomination from the 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards for his portrayal of Andrew in Chuck Mee's three-character play, "Lemonade Tous Les Jour", which won the award for Best Ensemble Cast.

He has taught acting at NYU, the Terry Knickerbocker Studio, Academy of Art University, the Aquila Studio and the New York Conservatory of Acting. He recently completed a short screenplay, a Western set in the 1870’s, and is currently writing a book about his life on the road, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across America in the early 80’s.