Tag: Gallery Talks

A Midsummer Night’s Soirée

w/ Gallery Talk: Ungno Lee’s Art World |  In celebration of the 60th anniversary of artist Lee Ungno’s arrival in Paris, the Korea Society welcomes

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Po Kim: Making Impossible Demands on Art

In the course of his career, painter Po Kim  worked in three distinct modes, gestural abstraction, realist still-life and symbolist figuration. This talk will examine

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The Buddhist Arts of Korea with Dr. Robert Mowry

This illustrated slide lecture will introduce Korean Buddhist art, focusing on the late Three Kingdoms period (traditionally, 57 BC – AD 668), the Unified Silla

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Korean Ceramics: The Great Tradition

This illustrated slide lecture will survey the history of Korean ceramics from the early historic period through the nineteenth century. It will focus on the

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Young Shik Kim

Young 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

Miindo, Velazquez and Ants: Gallery Exhibition

  Unrestrained by boundaries of medium or style, Lee LeeNam playfully reimagines classic works of art from different genres, time periods, and countries.  He adds

Into The Light: Gallery Exhibition

  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

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VOID: Gallery Exhibition

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

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Lucky Pouches

Create a lucky pouch (bok jumeoni), during this 4 week, 8 hour workshop with artists Wonju Seo and Karen Ahn. Using two traditional art forms,

The Paintings of Park Dae Sung

  After losing his parents and left hand to the Korean War, Park Dae Sung so loved art that by the age of ten he

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