Exhibitions
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Young Shik Kim
Thursday, February 18, 2016 | 6:00 PMYoung Shik Kim is a Korean folk-art painter who combines historic technique and materials with contemporary forms and non-traditional colors. Her style of simple objects rendered in a soft palette was developed over twenty years of practicing traditional Minhwa painting. Ms. Kim has participated in many group exhibitions in South Korea, China, Mongolia, Switzerland, and the United States. Her work recently appeared at the Induk University Gallery and the Ara Art Center in Seoul, and she and her daughter presented... Read More -
Miindo, Velazquez and Ants: Gallery Exhibition
Thursday, November 12, 2015 | 6:00 PMUnrestrained by boundaries of medium or style, Lee LeeNam playfully reimagines classic works of art from different genres, time periods, and countries. He adds movement and detail to Eastern and Western masterpieces, inviting viewers to discover the new in familiar images. Lee majored in sculpture at Chosun University before discovering a passion for animation, a discipline that embraces both technology and time-honored technique. His digital creations also examine this interaction between the traditional and... Read More -
Into The Light: Gallery Exhibition
Sunday, October 25, 2015 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
In the 1990’s, Ha Dong Chul (1946-2006), a leading Korean abstract artist, sought to represent the essential nature of creation through an examination of “light.” The resulting series of paintings bear his trademark synthesis of Western Modernism and native Korean technique. Ha used the “plucked ink line,” the age-old tool of the Korean carpenter and stonemason, to mark his canvasses with diagonal stripes. His bold, primary colors come directly from the obangsaek, the spectrum of red, blue, yellow, white, and black... Read More -
Private Tour of Dansaekhwa Korean Abstract Art @ Christie’s
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 | 5:00 PMFrom October 8 to 23, Christie’s showcased 33 paintings by eight Korean masters of modern abstract art, including those from the Dansaekhwa movement, at their Rockefeller Center West Galleries. The Korea Society offered an exclusive private tour to our members, led by Dr. Young Yang Chung, the Chair of the Program Committee at The Korea Society, and Christie’s curator Yunah Jung. Twenty-six of the works were available for private sale, while the other seven were on loan. This first comprehensive group exhibition... Read More -
VOID: Gallery Exhibition
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Choong Supim builds bridges between different worlds. He combines sculpture, painting, and found objects to assert a harmony among contrasting concepts, such as the regimentation of modern civilization and a chaotic universe, urban and rural life, and the West and Korea. To Lim, the emphasis on distinctions conceals a deeper truth, which he seeks to uncover through an “emptying of self” and a patching of the “in-betweens.” The installation artwork in this exhibition, Luna, And Her Thousand Reflections, blends light,... Read More -
The Paintings of Park Dae Sung
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
After losing his parents and left hand to the Korean War, Park Dae Sung so loved art that by the age of ten he would rigorously and repeatedly copy ink-and-wash images and calligraphy from classic texts. This courageous young boy grew into an artist of visionary integrity, who, with deep gratitude to his artistic birthright, gracefully transcends imitation of his predecessors. Park Dae Sung achieves the traditional goal of the ink-and-wash painter—to reveal the fundamental core and character of a subject—through a... Read More -
The Lea Sneider Collection
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | 5:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Lea Sneider has a passion for folk art: the ceramics, woodwork, paintings, and sculpture used and enjoyed in everyday life. While accompanying her husband, Richard L. Sneider, to his appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Korea in 1974, Mrs. Sneider became an avid explorer of the art galleries and museums of Seoul, Daegu, and Busan. She sought out scholars of the rich tradition of Korean folk art, a field largely unexplored in the West at the time. After returning to the United States, Mrs. Sneider became an art dealer,... Read More -
PO KIM: A Memorial Tribute
Friday, September 26, 2014 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Po Kim’s artistic career was characterized by an ever-evolving style, and an eagerness to seek out new areas of inspiration. His paintings, often large in scale, were bold and compelling, bursting with life, energy, and emotion. This work distinguished Kim as one of the premier Korean-American artists of his time. When the artist died earlier this year, he left behind a strong legacy in his paintings, the innumerable artists he inspired, and the gallery in New York and museum in Korea which bear his name. Po’s life as... Read More -
MADE IN NEW YORK/ MADE IN SEOUL
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | 6:00 PMThis exhibition of works by sixty contemporary artists from New York and Seoul reveals the broad range of techniques, styles, and sensibilities active in printmaking today. Representing the state-of-the-art of the genre, these artists manipulate the deep tones and textures accessible to the printmaker to produce artwork with the eye-catching graphic quality that is the hallmark of print. Printmaking, through its unique ability to produce affordable copies, has been long associated with the democratization of... Read More -
Korean Contemporary Ceramics
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 | 5:30 PM- Youtube Video:
When artists work in a medium as old as earth itself, in a country that has for centuries been recognized as a center for artistic expression in that medium, how do they continue to innovate? This challenge is answered by each of the artists in this exhibition of Korean contemporary ceramics. YOON Kwang Cho, a leading buncheong artist, is a recipient of Korea’s most esteemed prize for contemporary art, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Artist of the Year. Yoon’s playful, carefree approach and... Read More