- DAC Artists Yujin Kang
Bedroom with Red
2006 enamel and acrylic on canvas 51.2x63 in
Opening Reception: February 5th, Thursday 6-8 pm
DOOSAN Gallery New York, 533 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001
Doosan Gallery New York is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Yujin Kang from February 5th through March 5th, 2015. This exhibition will feature a selection of representative works from Kang’s early to recent work.
Kang juxtaposes disparate elements such as skyscrapers and gallery spaces, as well as other urban environments with a chunk of meat or a heart, creating surrealistic images. Then, she further intensifies the tension through the scattered and dripped marks of enamel paint on the surface of the image.
In addition, Kang uses the Xerox machine to enlarge or to divide the forms in the image, then uses that as material for her work. In this way, the artist is able to engage with the subject matter with distance, minimizing the artist’s direct emotional expression, composing a picture that is different from conventional abstraction.
For example, Kang’s Inward or Outward -between heart and Guggenheim Bilbao Museum depicts a distorted Guggenheim Museum, a traditional one-point perspective drawing of a swimming pool, as well as a heart. This combination of disparate elements successfully brings out the attitudes and viewpoints of an artist who is concerned with the fundamental issues regarding perception and dimension explored in history of painting.
Through this methodology, Yujin Kang is not merely reproducing the symbolic meaning of an object or its appearance. But by synthetic form of expression, she deconstructs and reconstructs an image, revealing through composite imagery that there may be another essence behind seemingly brilliant landscapes.
Yujin Kang (b. 1977) received her B.F.A in Fine Arts from Seoul National University, M.F.A from Seoul National University, and M.A from Fine Arts Department at Goldsmith College and University of London. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery SUN Contemporary (2012, Seoul, Korea), Gallery Resy Muijers (2011, Tilburg, Netherland), Kumho Museum (2006, Seoul, Korea), and Ilmin Museum of Art (2003, Seoul, Korea). Her works have also included in group exhibitions at Space K (2013, Gwangju, Korea), Zaha Museum (2010, Seoul, Korea), Interalia (2010, Seoul, Korea), DOOSAN Gallery (2009, Seoul, Korea), Gallery I-MY (2008, London, England), and Trafalgar Galleries (2006, London, England).