Art & Artist

  • ASIA WEEK ARTIST TALK with Suh Seung Won

    Thursday, March 14, 2019 | 6:30 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2019-03-14_TKS_ASIAWEEK_ARTISTTALK_SuhSeungWon.mp3
    • Podcast URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/asia-week-artist-talk-with-suh-seung-won/id210903888?i=1000432768993&mt=2
    • Youtube Video:
      Simultaneity presents an ongoing series based on the Korean Dansaekhwa monochrome movement by artist Suh Seung Won (b. 1941), a pioneer of geometric abstraction in Korean contemporary art. Expanding on a career across five decades, Suh’s Simultaneity series explores his continued meditations on the concurrence of time and space, expressed through interactions between geometric forms and the underlying surface. This exhibition primarily shows Suh’s works created between 1970 and the present, in which the rigid... Read More

  • Women on Manhwa: The Future of Korean Comics

    Friday, November 16, 2018 | 6:30 PM
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    While male-focused narratives have led Western and American comics, manhwa (Korean comics) are leading the charge for women and gaining popularity as a cultural export, reaching fans worldwide via mobile apps. Artists Narae Lee, Ministry of Culture Grand Prize winner, and Kyungran Park discuss their craft at The Korea Society. Sun Bang, CEO of TappyToon, provides insight into this rapidly expanding global industry. Talk followed by Q&A and networking reception.     Women on Manhwa: The Future of Korean... Read More

  • Aggregation: Artist Talk & Closing Reception

    Thursday, November 15, 2018 | 12:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-11-15_TKS_Aggregation_ArtistTalk_KwangYoungChun.mp3
    • Podcast URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/aggregation-artist-talk-with-kwang-young-chun/id210903888?i=1000424236056&mt=2
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    The Korea Society invites you to the gallery talk and closing reception of the exhibition, Kwang Young Chun: Aggregation. Artist Kwang Young Chun discusses his craft and the techniques used to create his acclaimed artwork. Followed by a networking reception with light lunch.   Aggregation: Artist Talk & Closing ReceptionThursday, November 15, 2018 | 12 PM FREE with RSVP @ The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, NYC Gallery hours: M-Th: 10 AM - 4:30 PM | F: 10 AM - 2:30 PM | by appointment For... Read More

  • A Midsummer Night’s Soirée

    Wednesday, July 18, 2018 | 6:30 PM
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    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 you to enjoy the art exhibition of the Korean-born French artist who combined the abstract tendencies of the Art Informel movement with traditional forms of Korean art. Artist and scholar Robert C. Morgan and former student of Lee Ungno, sculptor Alain Kirili, discuss Lee's work and the artist's influence on Asian contemporary art. Join us for a summer gathering with... Read More

  • Po Kim: Making Impossible Demands on Art

    Monday, October 23, 2017 | 6:00 PM
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    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

  • The Buddhist Arts of Korea with Dr. Robert Mowry

    Thursday, March 16, 2017 | 6:30 PM
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    This illustrated slide lecture will introduce Korean Buddhist art, focusing on the late Three Kingdoms period (traditionally, 57 BC – AD 668), the Unified Silla period (668–935), and the Koryŏ period (918–1392). Buddhism reached Korea from China in the fourth century; by the Unified Silla period, most members of the royal family were Buddhists, and the royal court patronized the religion, building temples and commissioning sculptures; by the Koryŏ period, the nation had espoused Buddhism as the state religion. Thus,... Read More

  • Korean Ceramics: The Great Tradition

    Thursday, March 17, 2016 | 6:00 PM
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    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 robust stonewares of the Three Kingdoms (57 BC-AD 668) and Unified Silla (668-935) periods, the classical celadons of the Koryŏ (Goryeo) dynasty (918-1392), and the delicate porcelains and rustic punch’ŏng (buncheong) wares of the Chosŏn (Joseon) dynasty (1392-1910). The lecture will emphasize characteristics and innovations that are uniquely Korean (such as the... Read More

  • Young Shik Kim

    Thursday, February 18, 2016 | 6:00 PM
    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 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 PM
      Unrestrained 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
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      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

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