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Kim Tschang-Yeul

For 2023’s ADAA The Art Show, Tina Kim Gallery presented a historical presentation highlighting two seminal Asian and Asian-American artists: sculptor Minoru Niizuma (b. 1930, Tokyo; d. 1998, New York) and painter Kim Tschang-Yeul (b. 1929, Pyongannamdo; d. 2021, Paris). When Kim moved to New York in 1965, Pop Art prevailed as the artistic lifeblood of the city. It was in New York that Kim began his earliest experiments into painting the bulbous abstract forms that would later lead to his signature style—the waterdrop.

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Ha Chong-Hyun

Ha Chong-Hyun came to prominence with his Conjunction series in the early 1970s. These early experiments have led him to build his signature style, pushing the paint from the back to the front of hemp cloth. As a leading member of the movement known as Dansaekhwa, or “monochrome painting”, he has consistently used material experimentation and innovative studio processes to redefine the role of painting, playing a significant role bridging the avant-garde traditions between East and West.
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Suki Seokyeong Kang

was included in Tina Kim’s Frieze London booth. Suki assembles her sculptures according to an idiosyncratic syntax of form, material, and referent. In compelling the viewer to navigate around and amongst these constructs, Kang suggests an awareness of how one occupies space and navigates the interstices of self and other.

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Kenny Nguyen

Tackling complex concepts of identity and displacement, Kenny Nguyen’s work is a painting, textile art and sculpture all at once, achieved through a process he has perfected through years of experimentation and exploration. In the studio, strips of silk get cut, pressed into the paint and firmly attached to the canvas to create a dynamic mosaic of texture and colour. However, the work is not truly finished until the moment of installation when Nguyen hand-sculpts the canvas onto the wall, transforming the expansive piece into a light-catching topography of undulating drapes and folds.

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Tomie Ohtake

Andrew Kreps Gallery recently presented a survey exhibition of works by Tomie . At the age of 37, Ohtake made her first artistic works after joining Brazil’s Seibi group, which brought together artists of Japanese descent. While in her first years of painting, she focused on representational works, she would soon immerse herself in abstraction, which would thereafter become a lifelong exploration, spanning over 50 years of production.
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Linda Sok

Saw below recently in Something Earned, Something Left Behind at the Center for Craft in Asheville. Sok’s piece speaks to the traditional Cambodian craft of Pidan silk weaving as an act of resilience. Pidan were highly regarded in particular by French colonial archivists, and as a result there have been ample attempts at documentation, collection, and restitution of the cultural practice through its collection into museums or in the reconstruction of textile pieces funded by organizations outside Cambodia. As a result, these objects have become decontextualized and are visible only to people in museum spaces.
By placing contemporary imagery of the artist’s family onto a culturally sacred object, Sok offers a nuanced way of approaching the traditional weaving practice as an act of healing from familial and cultural trauma.

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Shiraga Kazuo

Kazuo Shiraga (白髪 一雄, Shiraga Kazuo, August 12, 1924 – April 8, 2008) was a Japanese abstract painter and the first-generation member of the postwar artists collective Gutai Art Association (Gutai). As a Gutai member, he was a prolific, inventive, and pioneering experimentalist who tackled a range of media: in addition to painting, he worked in performance art, three-dimensional object making, conceptual art, and installations. Sam Francis was influenced by this group of artists.

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