The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Wednesday for our artist talk with Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, and Raphaele Shirley!
Their exhibition, "Time is Light" will be on view until May 18th at the SWPK Gallery.

TIME IS LIGHT
Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, and Raphaele Shirley
MARCH 6 – MAY 18, 2024

ARTIST TALK with Natalia Kolodzei
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery invites you to our Artist Talk on Tuesday, April 30th, which is held as part of the exhibition, Time Is Light, on view through May 18, 2024. Three media artists, Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants and Raphaele Shirley will discuss their works with moderator Natalia Kolodzei.

Time is Light opening reception on March 6th

with Alexandra Dementi, Raphaele Shirley and Annafrants

Upcoming Exhibition “Time is Light” 3/6-5/18, Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Raphaele Shirley

Young Sup Han, Gallery talk and performance

Young Sup Han, Han’s practice focuses on the spirituality of nature and its correlation to the artist. The Korean philosophy of nature posits a complementary relationship between humans and nature – the self is inseparable from the surrounding environment.

Young-Sup Han, Infinite Relation, Nov 17 - Feb 10, 2024

Kyung Ae Hur, Sillages”

OPENING JULY 12 || KYUNG-AE HUR: SILLAGES
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Join us July 12 from 6-8pm for a reception celebrating the opening of “Kyung-Ae Hur: Sillages” on view through September 30. Discussion with the artist will take place at 7 pm. RSVP link in bio.
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Kyung-Ae Hur is known for her distinctive constructive-deconstructive technique, creating a chromatic symphony in which both chaos and order coexist within a single surface. Deeply rooted in her Korean heritage, her work draws inspiration from traditional Korean colors and patterns while offering a new, unconventional approach to their use. Taking its impetus from the French word for the wake or trail that lingers behind a moving object, Sillages presents a group of acrylic on canvas paintings in which the artist breaks apart and reshapes pre-existing orders to explore questions of presence and absence.
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Hur’s process begins with the application of up to 70 layers of acrylic paint of various colors to the canvas. Once dried, she carves through the bonded layers using sculpting knives, surgical scalpels, or kitchen knives, thus breaking the smooth surface and revealing an array of colors hidden beneath. She refers to these revealed colors as “traces,” remnants of a previous state, akin to an archaeologist unearthing histories that are destined to resurface. These carved-out fragments are then gathered and reattached to the canvas, forming a regenerated landscape that is at once chaotic and ordered, mirroring the dichotomy of the universe.
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Read more about the exhibition at swpk.org.
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Kyung-Ae Hur: (1) “Untitled,” 2023; (2) “Untitled,” 2022;
Artwork © Kyung-Ae Hur

OPENING SOON | JEONG MIN SUH: BEYOND THE LINE |
MARCH 8 - MAY 27, 2023
OPENING: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 6–8 PM
ARTIST TALK AT 7 PM
RSVP REQUIRED

SWPK is pleased to announce the exhibition Jeong Min Suh: Beyond the Line on view in our 2nd floor gallery space from March 8th, 2023 to May 27th, 2023. A discussion with the artist will take place at 7:00 pm on the night of the opening.

For more details and to RSVP, click the link below.

OPENING SOON | JEONG MIN SUH: BEYOND THE LINE | March 8 - May 27, 2023

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Friday for Jung Hee Choi’s Artist Talk with La Monte Young and curator Megan Witko.

UPCOMING EVENT: Jung Hee Choi in conversation with La Monte Young and Megan Witko

Join us on Friday, September 30th at 6 PM for an artist talk in which the artist of our current exhibition, Jung Hee Choi will discuss her work and process with the legendary artist La Monte Young and Dia Art Foundation curator Megan Witko, who has worked closely with both Choi and Young on all of their Dia projects since 2015.

EVENT DETAILS:
Friday, September 30th, 6PM
417 Lafayette Street, 2nd Fl, NYC 10003
RSVP required.

Click the link below to RSVP and for further details.

Jung Hee Choi in conversation with La Monte Young and Megan Witko Friday, September 30, 6 pm at SWPK, 417 Lafayette Street, Fl. 2, NYC

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the opening of Jung Hee Choi’s “Manifest Unmanifest XII” last Wednesday! The exhibition is on view until Sept. 15th.

Photo credit: Jung Hee Choi, Brian Lopez and Jihyun Park. Copyright © Jung Hee Choi 2022

Exhibition Details:
JUNG HEE CHOI: MANIFEST UNMANIFEST XII
June 8th - September 15th, 2022
417 Lafayette Street, 2nd Fl, NYC 10003
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11-6PM
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OPENING SOON | JUNG HEE CHOI MANIFEST, UNMANIFEST XII
JUNE 8–SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
OPENING: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 6–8 PM, RSVP REQUIRED

SWPK is pleased to announce the exhibition of Jung Hee Choi's Manifest Unmanifest XII on view in our 2nd-floor gallery space from June 8th, 2022 to September 15th, 2022.

For more details and to RSVP click the link below.

Opening Soon | JUNG HEE CHOI: MANIFEST, UNMANIFEST XII | June 8 - September 15, 2022

The life of our founder Po Kim and his current exhibition at Hakgojae Gallery in Korea featured in the Seoul Economic Daily. The exhibition is on view from May 6th to June 12th, 2022.

먼 땅에서 꿈꾸듯 그린 '지상의 낙원' [서울경제] 붉은 말은 어디를 바라보고 있는가. 나란히 선 사람이 뻗은 팔은 어디를 가리키고 있는 것일까. 미국 뉴욕에서만 60년 가까이 활동했던 화가 포 킴(본명 김보현·1917~2014)의 후기작 ‘따스한 섬’은

LAST CHANCE TO SEE DIFFUSION/COHESION EXHIBITION! THE EXHIBITION CLOSES TODAY AT 6 PM.

Exhibition Details:
DIFFUSION/COHESION
Artists: Gil Bruvel, Eunsuh Choi, James Cullinane, Rodney Dickson, Kyung-Ae Hur, Yong R. Kwon, Taezoo Park, and Raphaele Shirley.
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On view until November 10th, 2021.
Location: 417 Lafayette Street, NYC, 1st and 2nd floors.
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“My art is light. I don’t use light as a means to complete my artworks; the light itself is the essence and expression. I don’t try to represent light, but I try to make it linger.”
- Yong R. Kwon

Exhibition Details:
DIFFUSION/COHESION
Artists: Gil Bruvel, Eunsuh Choi, James Cullinane, Rodney Dickson, Kyung-Ae Hur, Yong R. Kwon, Taezoo Park and Raphaele Shirley.

On view until November 10th, 2021.
Location: 417 Lafayette Street, NYC, 1st and 2nd floors.

Image: Yong R. Kwon, “Ultramarine-Light”, 2014, stainless steel on canvas, 57 1/10 × 89 4/5 in.

Based in Paris, Korean artist Kyung-Ae Hur creates paintings in which both chaos and order coexist within a single surface. Recognized as one of the artists from the younger generation of the Korean Dansaekhwa art movement, her artistic practice involves a unique constructive-destructive process that breaks apart and reshapes pre-existing orders.

Hur first applies a series of 30 to 70 layers of acrylic paint of various colors to the canvas. After letting them dry, she carves through the bonded layers using sculpting knives, surgical scalpels or kitchen knives, breaking up the smooth surface with rough markings and revealing a “trace” of the array of colors hidden beneath. She then reunites these carved-out pigment fragments by attaching them to the canvas, creating a completely new, regenerated landscape.

Exhibition Details:
DIFFUSION/COHESION
Artists: Gil Bruvel, Eunsuh Choi, James Cullinane, Rodney Dickson, Kyung-Ae Hur, Yong R. Kwon, Taezoo Park and Raphaele Shirley.

On view until November 10th, 2021.
Location: 417 Lafayette Street, NYC, 1st and 2nd floors.

Image: Kyung-Ae Hur, “N°FRP0821BP1”, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 63 3/4 x 51 1/8 in.

Born in Northern Ireland in 1956 and now based in Brooklyn, Rodney Dickson explores the themes of conflict and its aftermath in his works, influenced by his experiences of the civil disorder in his homeland during his childhood years and the effects of war in Cambodia and Vietnam that he witnessed later in life.

Dickson often creates his paintings through a series of multiple, physically-intense sessions, constantly reworking the surface in a process of creation and destruction. Through this method, layers of built-up paint form a pastose terrain of color that has been mixed directly on the canvas, producing a powerful tension between the physicality of the congealed paint and the dispersal of the intense range of colors. The rhythmic interplay of colors and textures reveal Dickson’s confident approach to his canvas, creating a deeply sensitive expression imbued with an underlying sense of violence and a range of human emotions that is both unifying and cathartic.

Exhibition Details:
DIFFUSION/COHESION
Artists: Gil Bruvel, Eunsuh Choi, James Cullinane, Rodney Dickson, Kyung-Ae Hur, Yong R. Kwon, Taezoo Park and Raphaele Shirley.

On view until November 10th, 2021.
Location: 417 Lafayette Street, NYC, 1st and 2nd floors.

Image: Rodney Dickson, “Untitled”, 2014, oil on board, 96 x 60 in.

James Cullinane creates works that go beyond the two-dimensional picture plane building up the surface with a complex pattern of layers—both physically and metaphorically—that visually recontextualize pre-existing concepts of images.

Inspired by a book of architectural diagrams found in Cologne, Germany, he incorporates collaged layers of images of Gothic cathedral barrel vaults into these relief compositions. The structural physicality of the vaults is then accentuated through the addition of unexpected sculptural elements, such as a yellow jacket’s nest with its hexagonal cells forming an architectural masterpiece of nature.

Exhibition Details:
DIFFUSION/COHESION
Artists: Gil Bruvel, Eunsuh Choi, James Cullinane, Rodney Dickson, Kyung-Ae Hur, Yong R. Kwon, Taezoo Park and Raphaele Shirley.

On view until November 10th, 2021.
Location: 417 Lafayette Street, NYC, 1st and 2nd floors.

Image: James Cullinane, “The End of Owls” 2012, paint, paper and yellow jackets’nest on panel, 24 x 24 in.

“My work specifically focuses on communicating the graceful flow of our emotional tendencies through the plastic medium of flameworked glass. I like to work sculpturally, utilizing form and its surrounding atmosphere to portray narratives based on the human encounter with success and failure in the pursuit of personal ambition.” - Eunsuh Choi

Exhibition Details:
DIFFUSION/COHESION
Artists: Gil Bruvel, Eunsuh Choi, James Cullinane, Rodney Dickson, Kyung-Ae Hur, Yong R. Kwon, Taezoo Park and Raphaele Shirley.

On view until November 10th, 2021.
Location: 417 Lafayette Street, NYC, 1st and 2nd floors.

Image: Eunsuh Choi, “Dreams V”, 2021, flameworked borosilicate glass, 20 x 11.5 x 20 in.

“The interlocking of these structures forms an inner mechanism within each piece that continues to recreate itself through its own energetic surface.” - Gil Bruvel
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Exhibition Details:
DIFFUSION/COHESION
Artists: Gil Bruvel, Eunsuh Choi, James Cullinane, Rodney Dickson, Kyung-Ae Hur, Yong R. Kwon, Taezoo Park and Raphaele Shirley.

On view: September 10th to November 10th, 2021.
Location: 417 Lafayette Street, NYC, 1st and 2nd floors.

Image: Gil Bruvel, “Bending the Lines #16”, 2018, wood, resin, and acrylic

CURRENT EXHIBITION || INSTALLATION VIEWS

Exhibition Details:
DIFFUSION/COHESION
Artists: Gil Bruvel, Eunsuh Choi, James Cullinane, Rodney Dickson, Kyung-Ae Hur, Yong R. Kwon, Taezoo Park, and Raphaele Shirley.
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On view until November 10th, 2021.
Location: 417 Lafayette Street, NYC, 1st and 2nd floors.
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