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Happy Lunar New Year from Formation Association!!!Celebrating the Year of the Horse and embracing freedom, high-energy c...
05/03/2026

Happy Lunar New Year from Formation Association!!!

Celebrating the Year of the Horse and embracing freedom, high-energy change, and
bold, decisive action!

Galloping forward, glimpse over our shoulder with us to see some of the journey that
brought us here. We thank all of our incredible collaborators, clients, and partners for
riding with us! Some images and highlights from the upper left:

1. Bronze Celestial Horse, Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE), China
2. Atwater Canyon recognized with AIA Los Angeles Design Award in Adaptive Reuse /
Renovation category, 2024
3. Zócalo Public Square publishes Formation Association Design Director John K
Chan’s article on Wildfire Recovery,
‘How Altadena Can Rebuild Smarter’
, emerging from
his work in the Wildfire Recovery Think Tank (WRTT).
4. Studio City residential project, interior rendering for Phillips auction house Gallery
Manger, Alexis Chompaisal
5. Parker Gallery, Formation Association’s latest commercial gallery project, opened for
Frieze, 2025. Definitely visit this amazing gallery program and building if you haven’t yet!
6. Grace U. Oh, Formation Association’s Managing Director, delivering opening remarks
at the Hammer Museum last weekend for Voices of the Diaspora, the third installation of
AAPI Arts Network’s annual symposium – bringing together diasporic and Indigenous
artists and cultural workers of color to challenge colonial legacies and reimagine art
histories by exploring the complexities of migration.

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phillipsauction parkergallery frieze graceuoh aapiartsnetwork
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Seoul’s art scene needs no introduction as the ‘Art World’s Hot New Destination’, heralded by , and dishes ‘Where to Go...
18/09/2025

Seoul’s art scene needs no introduction as the ‘Art World’s Hot New Destination’, heralded by , and dishes ‘Where to Go, Where to Stay, and Where to Eat Korean Fried Chicken…’ for incoming Frieze Seoul travellers — it’s officially mainstream intel.  But it still takes real insiders to navigate what matters beyond the art commerce frenzy.

Formation Association’s own Managing Director Grace U. Oh brought her Korean American art insider expertise to Frieze Seoul 2025, participating in the Frieze Talks panel ‘Art Foundations and the Ecology of the Art World’ and serving on the Frieze Stand Prize Jury.

Through a dynamic conversation with foundation leaders from across Asia and beyond, the ‘Art Foundations and the Ecology of the Art World’ panel offered a behind-the-scenes look at how foundations are reimagining their roles in building art’s future.  Moderated by Gabriel Ritter, Director of the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Grace’s conversation partners included cultural leaders Zoe Butt, Founder & Executive Director, in-tangible institute; Laurencina Farrant-Lee, Director, Songeun Art Center; and Patrick Sun, Sunpride Foundation. 

Adjudicating across the expansive floor of 121 exhibitors in Frieze Seoul’s 2025 edition, Grace joined fellow Californian Gabriel Ritter and Hyejung Jang, Chief Curator at DASOON Art Center and co-organiser of WESS to award Tokyo gallery Take Ninagawa the  Frieze Stand Prize — congratulations booth A34!!  The winning presentation spotlighted diverse, multigenerational artists — many female — who transform everyday objects into new points of inquiry, with works by Aki Sasamoto, Stella Zhong, Ryoko Aoki, Gozo Yoshimasu, Yoko Daihara, and Shirno Ohtake. 

Detail images, show mixed-media sculptures by Aki Sasamoto, relating to her Sounding Lines commissioned installation at Para Site, Hong Kong, and also Shinro Ohtake, among Japan’s leading contemporary artists, presenting a sculptural work binding together individual pieces in Scrapbook #68.


#건축 #建筑 #建築 #미술 #艺术 #藝術

Parker Gallery is Formation Association’s latest adaptive reuse art gallery project.Dramatically altering and reorganizi...
11/09/2025

Parker Gallery is Formation Association’s latest adaptive reuse art gallery project.

Dramatically altering and reorganizing a modest existing mid-century office building, the redesigned spaces and attendant site improvements invite an abundance of light and layering of views while expanding the gallery’s extended programming and events outdoors

Opening just in time for LA earlier this year, Parker Gallery’s inaugural shows presented the works of Joe Minter & Daisy Sheff at the new Melrose Ave location.  We’ve enjoyed hearing the beaming and articulate notes from many who’ve visited the gallery space since then – in the LA art world and beyond! 

As for the last image and latest reason to visit Parker Gallery this Friday, Sept 12:  Lukas Geronimas opens with his third solo show with the gallery’s program: Ordinal Reject.  

The new show delivers both a walkaway keepsake and an installation in dialogue with the gallery’s architectural environment! More on Ordinal Reject below:

At the entrance to the gallery, visitors are greeted with a takeaway card that reads: “That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.” The text is from The Claw of the Conciliator, the second volume in American writer Gene Wolfe’s four-part science fiction series, The Book of the New Sun. With this phrase in mind, the works in the exhibition begin to take shape, creating an aura of foreboding, mystery, and intrigue.

Within the gallery, Geronimas has installed nineteen wall mounted sculptures around the perimeter of the room, surrounding the exposed ceiling beams and adjoining joists original to the gallery’s 1947 building. Conceived in response to the architectural hardware, his new series of Custom Joist Hanger Cover and Lures are detailed in their ornamentation and decidedly handmade, belying traditional function and mass utility. 

Lukas Geronimas
September 12-November 1, 2025

Parker Gallery
6700 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles CA 90038

Tuesday–Saturday
11am–6pm


Special thanks to our collaborators for making this project and miracles happen! See you guys at the show!!  Photos

Formation Association Design Director John K Chan’s recent essay for Zocalo Public Square explores how neighborhood cult...
23/07/2025

Formation Association Design Director John K Chan’s recent essay for Zocalo Public Square explores how neighborhood culture can inspire transformative solutions for wildfire recovery. Read “How Altadena can Rebuild Smarter” — via link in bio.

Drawing from John’s work with the Wildfire Recovery Think Tank (WRTT), an interdisciplinary volunteer network advancing culturally responsive wildfire recovery for Altadena and other wildland-urban interface communities, the essay challenges California to “Ditch ‘Suburbrain’ Logic and Embrace Design That Puts Community First’.

Article excerpt: “Expanding our urban and social imaginations, we might activate new California housing policies, in combination, to help communities flourish after fire. We also might mitigate our widespread housing crises, and fight back against an epidemic of loneliness—manifestations of our rush toward the three-bedroom, two-bath pinnacle of the American Dream”.

Concept illustrations created by Formation Association for the WRTT.

Many thanks to , , , & for amplifying these ideas on such an exceptional platform for public conversation! The article can be found at the Zocalo Public Square website: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-altadena-can-rebuild-smarter/

Stay tuned for more collaborations between Formation Association and the WRTT! Follow to join the growing WRTT activism!

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hoping your holidays are filled with euclidean surprises! #건축 #建筑 #建築 #미술 #艺术 #藝術 #...
21/12/2024



hoping your holidays are filled with euclidean surprises!







#건축 #建筑 #建築 #미술 #艺术 #藝術 #설계 #设计 #設計

stick with it stick together stick frame stick around
17/12/2024



stick with it stick together stick frame stick around







Framing for structure, site lines, state of mind. #건축 #建筑 #建築 #미술 #艺术 #藝術 #설계 #设计 #設計
25/11/2024

Framing for structure, site lines, state of mind.



#건축 #建筑 #建築 #미술 #艺术 #藝術 #설계 #设计 #設計

Yo Eastside! Join us for a hop, skip, and a jump touring Atwater Canyon & Council_St Art Shed this Friday with Formatio...
14/05/2024

Yo Eastside! Join us for a hop, skip, and a jump touring Atwater Canyon & Council_St Art Shed this Friday with Formation Association Design Director, John K Chan, AIA LEED AP!

Link in bio for tickets to this eastside twofer architectural tour, part of AIALA’s Spring ARCH TOUR FEST!


Atwater Canyon is an adaptive reuse project which introduces a canyon-like paseo through an existing single story unreinforced masonry building, situated in the Atwater Village commercial corridor on Glendale Boulevard.

The paseo creates a new thoroughfare between sidewalk and parking lots in this mid-block urban condition while more than doubling the commercial ‘frontage’ of the building, which anticipates new restaurants and retail tenants forming a collective urban destination.

Council_St

Situated in the Historic Filipinotown domestic landscape, the Council_St Art Shed is an art studio wrapped in shingles, shedding water and notions of building type alike.

Programmed by owner and artist Kent M Young, the space is used for his own studio practice and for his commercial gallery program, ‘council_st’ which opens to the public, attendant with an emerging contemporary art scene.


#건축 #建筑 #建築 #미술 #艺术 #藝術 #설계 #设计 #設計

Happy Lunar New Year from Formation Association!!! In this Year of the Dragon - power, strength, and vigor to all our f...
24/02/2024

Happy Lunar New Year from Formation Association!!!

In this Year of the Dragon - power, strength, and vigor to all our friends and collaborators!

As we reflect on this past lunar year, we’re grateful for our ongoing work with meaningful clients and excited that Formation Association’s profile continues to grow! Images and highlights clockwise from upper left: 1. Green dragon instrument stand from 770-476 BCE; 2. Architect Magazine features Formation Association as ‘Next Progressives’’; 3. Gateway Village, Mixed-Use Housing project; 4. Formation Association named to Wallpaper* Magazine’s 2023 Architect’s Directory 2023, featuring Ivanhoe Vista House; 5. Seeker Music Group office and recording studios completes construction; 6. Memorial Colonnade, our public art competition project with Anna Sew Hoy and Zhu Jia, published as headline image in Domus, announcing finalists for the 1871 Chinese Massacre memorial.

#건축 #建筑 #建築 #음악 #音乐 #音樂 #설계 #设计 #設計

Atwater Canyon nominated U.S. ‘Building Of The Year’ by World-Architects! See link in bio to vote for Atwater Canyon! V...
19/01/2024

Atwater Canyon nominated U.S. ‘Building Of The Year’ by World-Architects!

See link in bio to vote for Atwater Canyon!
Voting ends Sunday, January 28.

Attaining a World-Architect’s ‘Building Of The Week’ earlier in 2023, Atwater Canyon now contends with 39 other buildings for Building Of The Year in their American-Architects poll! Thanks for supporting Atwater Canyon!

https://www.american-architects.com/en/building-of-the-year
Photos by the amazing

Special thanks to our partners for making this all happen! .richardson

#건축 #建筑 #建築 #미술 #艺术 #藝術 #설계 #设计 #設計

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