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The Mind-Body Split in Kibong Rhee’s Paintings
Rhee's paintings change from pictorial presentations of a lush, dreamy world to a tangled web of different viscosities when we approach the surface.
Tina Kim Gallery
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Kang Seok Ho’s Never-Ending Act of Slow Looking
In the works of the late Korean artist, Kang Seok Ho, there is no narrative, no relational reference point, but rather a never-ending now.
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Maia Ruth Lee Transforms the Materials of Migration
The artist draws inspiration from her own migration to consider both the confinement and freedom associated with a life in motion.
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A Tension in Paint Befitting Our Times
Maia Ruth Lee wants viewers to make associations as well as recognize the unstable world in which she and many others live.
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Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Whatever else Mire Lee's Carriers is about, it seems to me that has to do with sending you back into yourself, which is not necessarily a soothing place.
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Stories That Need to Be Told
Artist Minouk Lim wants to offer a very different perspective on how one might deal with a grim history whose effects continue to be felt in the present.
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Abstractions That Record the Scars of Trauma
Kwon Young-Woo presents the viewer with a deeper sense of the reality that nature goes on, no matter what humans are doing to each other.
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What Abstraction Can Face Up To
Ha Chong-Hyun has survived the many catastrophes that have befallen Korea during his lifetime, and his work is inextricable from his life.
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A Major Korean Painter Begins to Get His Due
While postwar Korean artists are celebrated in the West, the strongest painters of the next generation remain under-known.
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A Modern Trompe L'Oeil Painter
Kim Tschang-Yeul transformed the formal vocabulary of American abstraction into a symbolic possibility in his paintings. He was not interested in making a pure painting.
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Hints of the Real World in Art Basel’s Elitist Bubble
BASEL, Switzerland — How many works by Alexander Calder are out there?
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Korea’s Monochrome Painting Movement Is Having a New York Moment
The term Dansaekhwa, or “monochrome painting,” may elude readers unfamiliar with Korean, but it represents arguably Korea’s most important art movement of the late 20th century