Michi Meko & Key Jo Lee

Episode 1 | The Mystery of Voice | Michi Meko and Key Jo Lee | Michi Meko’s latest exhibition, Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground, opened at kavi Gupta in summer of 2022. The work expressed the thoughts and experiences Michi had during his frequent camping and fishing trips deep into the Georgia woods during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he went in hopes of discovering the sound of his voice in wild spaces. In addition to paintings and sculptures, Michi’s voice also manifested in nature photographs, field notes and sketches, which were compiled and published by Kavi Gupta Editions into the limited edition book: Michi Meko: Black Navigation. In this episode of Mixed Media, Michi talks with Key Jo Lee, Associate Curator of American art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, about how all of these elements fit together to define what we think  ...