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Email PageWoong Kim 2006
September 7, 2006- October 7, 2006
Reception: September 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Woong Kim
2x13 Gallery
531 W 26th St2x13 Gallery is pleased to announce Recent Paintings by Woong Kim, a solo exhibition on view through October 7th, 2006. A native Korean and a New York-based artist, Kim explores elements of nature and surroundings and transforms them into newly created shapes, forms, colors and patterns that join to become his internal meditative landscapes. Each element in the works is individually familiar to us, but they have a glowing sense of artistic originality and imagination as a whole. Kim's paintings are a collaboration of abstraction, collage, intricate layers and glazes of delicate yet dominant colors, well-orchestrated hues, expressive brush marks and an undeniably physical tactile surface. All of this together combines to define a remarkably complex and compacted art world in which the artist is its true creator.
The subtle beauties of the physical world are his main source of inspiration before beginning a painting. In his words, Kim describes,
In early childhood I was attracted to the aesthetic properties of oiled paper used to cover residential floors or jangpan, the patchwork of pojagi, or wrapping clothes of my native Korea, and the mosaic-like pattern of adjoining rice fields. The arrangement of forms and colors in ceramic disks and dishes, American Indian and Mimbres pottery, various quilts and game boards infuses me to create my world of shapes, colors, and pattern. These physical landscapes became a part of my mental landscape.
In his new works of paintings that range from smaller to larger works, Woong Kim presents a sheer vitality and inventiveness with composition, surface, color and form. Torn pieces of magazines, photographs, as well as canvas and cloth, are graphically wedded to the paintings. Patches and layers of paper or cloth are covered, glazed or painted over with multiple layers of paint that range from super glossy to flat matte. The sensitive differentiations of these shapes and colors and exquisitely articulated balance complementarily form the seamless whole, and in it vibrantly lives Kim's canvas.
These delicately quilted puzzles help Kim measure his interaction with nature and with his abstracted nature he creates. It is like searching for a dream that is hard to achieve, writes Kim. The surface of his paintings attracts one's eyes to see the exciting patchwork of irregular shapes, and a dreamlike calming inner world is then found as one reads into Kim's language.
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