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Lullaby

March 30, 2006- April 22, 2006

Reception: March 30, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jung Kook Byun, Mia Kim, Lisa Zwerling

2x13 Gallery

531 W 26th St

When lullaby plays into our soul we're entering the world of the subconscious mind where fantasy and mystic take part as a real truth and power. The line between what's real and what's non-real go hopelessly overboard. What remains is your subconscious consciousness with full imagination. That's what exhibition "Lullaby" reveals with 3 talented artists.

Jung Kook Byun has been mirroring our anonymous selves onto his canvas in an abstract manner with the figures. In his canvas there is love, hatred, loneliness, and happiness. There are memoirs of lovers, friends, and families. They're all related and at the same time fall apart. The figures are vaguely over-lapped with the abstract nature of Byun's unique figures. They powerfully play a lullaby of Byun's mystical world rather than assert their figurative logic as we plunge into the depths of his magical painting realms.

Mia Kim has reinvented the image of the doll into a blindfolded woman in a forest, a Madonna, creating soft yet dark fairytale-like narratives that tug at your soul. Her works are filled with haunting beauty, brooding romanticism, and lots of sublime anger. Emotions subtly seep into your consciousness with great intensity rather than impress upon you. According to art critic, Priya Malhotra, that's how Kim's painting works like a silent scream that reverberates with an uncanny power. Kim, with two great degrees in music, plays her lullaby with the yearning lyricism of her mystic words.

Robert Rosenblum describes that Lisa Zwerling's canvases at first may look like they belong to any other century but the twentieth, yet soon they are discovered as a symphony conducted by an artist who is trying to resurrect, in completely personal ways, the magic of old masters. Her canvases open up the mythic door to the narrative mystery of nature, from which we are all born and into which we all return. The audience coerced into absorbing this awesome awakening to a freshly fertile world has to do with Zwerling's uncommon ability to turn any fact into a fresh narrative from her dream-like mythology.

The exhibition "Lullaby" slides in between myth, fantasy, and reality. There are you, me, and ourselves. The images are mystical, but realistic, narrative yet lyrical. Therefore the exhibition "Lullaby" makes possible a magical song without sound.

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Location   Gallery 2x13 Gallery Address 531 W 26th St, 4th Fl New York (Chelsea) NY, 10001 United States Phone 212-563-3365 Fax 212-563-3305 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6 Nearby: All 4 galleries at 531 W 26th St

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