Exhibitions
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Po Kim: Making Impossible Demands on Art
Monday, October 23, 2017 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
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 each of these periods and look at how Po Kim's work related to the art of the period, especially that of other artists working in New York. I will also seek to understand the motives that sparked his stylistic restlessness, and ask whether his early experiences of war and violence in Korea and Japan may have helped inspire his evident faith in the... Read More - Youtube Video:
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Private Tour of An Inquiring Mind: American Collecting of Japanese & Korean Art @ Christie’s
Monday, April 24, 2017 | 12:30 PMMembers of The Korea Society were invited to an exclusive private tour of an exhibition that showcased works from renowned private, American, Asian-art collections. Exquisite pieces such as porcelain bottle vases, hanging scrolls, and panel screens from the Silla Dynasty (5th century) through the Joseon Dynasty (19th century) were presented. The highlight of the exhibition was “A Blue-and-white Porcelain Jar with Autumn Grasses” from the first half of the 18th century, one of the finest delicately embellished... Read More -
Gallery Opening: Finding Dignity The Art of Hyong Nam Ahn
Thursday, February 2, 2017 | 6:00 PMAn award-winning sculptor and installation artist, Ahn incorporates lights, sounds, and movement into his work and seeks to find the human spirit within the results of mankind’s experiments with Utopia. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Dongwha Cultural Foundation. February 2 – April 28, 2017 Gallery Opening Thursday, February 2, 2017 | 6 PM FREE with RSVP The Korea Society Gallery 950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022 (Corner of 57th & 3rd) Gallery... Read More -
Prometheus: The Art of Tchah Sup Kim
Thursday, October 13, 2016 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Tchah Sup Kim has experimented with a wide variety of genres and methods, including pop art, geometric abstraction, mail art, readymade objects, environmental art, and minimalism. Although the styles and materials have changed over time, Kim’s artwork always expresses a quest for the transcendent—as well as a critique of the Western-centric perspective. Born in Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kim and his family moved to Gyeongju, Korea, in 1944. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1963 and represented... Read More - Youtube Video:
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Breath of Life: Paintings by Yoo Geun-Taek
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Yoo Geun-Taek is a leading contemporary painter known for uniting traditional ink-and-wash painting techniques with the Korean post-modernist approach of the mid-1990s and 2000s. In contrast to the idealized objects usually found in traditional ink-wash painting (Sumukhwa), Yoo's art depicts the emotional quality of the workaday world—and often uncovers joy in the chaos and clutter of modern life. His paintings depict the everyday experience of the individual, and include intimate views of domestic life and nature.... Read More - Youtube Video:
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Body and Spirit Moon Jars by Park Boo Won
Thursday, March 17, 2016 | 6:00 PMPark Boo Won’s contemporary reproductions of moon jars simultaneously carry on and advance the Korean royal ceramic tradition. Traditional moon jars originated in the court of King Chŏngjo at the end of the 18th century. The white porcelain and simple curves embodied the principles of frugality and purity—neo-Confucian ideals of the ruling dynasty. Born in the countryside of Kimje in 1938, Park learned the royal ceramic tradition under distinguished master ceramist Ji Soontag. In the 1970s, Park began to add... Read More -
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 - Youtube Video:
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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
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