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Exhibitions
《Will you Marry Me?》, 2025.02.15 – 2025.03.23, Subtitled NYC (New York)
Shapes that once suggested familiar forms are cut, flattened, and stitched, only to reemerge as something unexpected—uncanny, even: a dog’s muzzle, a gummy bear, or a face caught in either a smile or a gasp. In her latest series, Unpleasant Episodes, Kai Oh weaves together humor, defiance, and—crucially—her own breasts and nipples.
2025.02.10
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[Review] The Memory of Water: Beak Jungki’s Contagious Magic
The legend has it that the Ganga (Ganges), the sacred river of India, sprang up from the lotus shaped feet of Vishnu, became a galaxy flowing through heaven, and then came down to the earth along the tangled locks of the hair of Shiva.
2019.03.15
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《Echo》, 2024.10.25 – 2024.11.20, A-Lounge
A-Lounge presents Sunny Kim’s solo exhibition 《Echo》 from October 25 to November 20, 2024. The exhibition features a total of 15 works, including 10 unstretched canvas cloths directly attached to the wall and 5 canvas and pole-based works. As a 1.5-generation Korean American, Kim has previously introduced schoolgirls in uniform into her canvases as recurring motifs, reinterpreting unstable, fragmented memories from her brief childhood in Korea.
2024.10.25
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[Critique] Portrait of Anxiety
The faces of people from Heinkuhn Oh’s photos show a subliminal feeling of anxiety in some ways. It gives the strange, grotesque, or fretful feeling. I can’t distinguish whether it is their faces that show anxiousness or it is my mind that is disturbed from watching their faces.
2011
Articles
Artist Suh Yongsun Paints Existential Questions of Human with Bold Colors
Artist Suh Yongsun (b. 1951) deals with a wide range of subjects, including portraits, landscapes, history, war, and mythology, but he is particularly known for his series depicting human figures in the city and his historicization series that visualize events in history.
2024.08.13
