Past Exhibition


Sue Kim
Soonja Oh Kim
Whi Bo Kim

August 07, 2004 ~ September 02, 2004


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Soonja Oh Kim's work combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional form.  She uses industrial materials such as aluminum and muriatic acid.  Aluminum sheet and organic etches are used to work abstract shapes on the surface.  For her, abstraction is vital and exciting.  Abstraction with the sculptural quality of Minimalism allows her to create a very personal expression.

Sue Kim's sculpture, stone and steel, stone and plaxiglass composition create an informally balanced, integrated network in which two materials connect at two points.  Each juncture of the two materials is simple and liberal.  Their interaction speaks of equality within the sculpture.  Her sculptures provoke vivid and deep sensations (feeling of humanity).  She accomplishes her goals through creating a subtle sympathy between her materials by emphasizing the use of intuitive feelings in the creative process and by seeking serenity and beauty.

Whi Boo Kim's work utilizes wooden materials embedded with the breaths of unknown people through a passage of time.  This process begins with the personal carpentry of the frame.  Originally, a frame was just a frame of the image.  But his use of the frame takes the space of the painting and transfers it to the background onto the wall from which it is hanging.  An evaluation of his work was once described as "The texture is painting, the form is sculpture, and the process is architecture. It summarizes human life itself", a statement with which he deeply agrees.