‘Kim, Gil Sook’ Solo Exhibition
2014 Vergil America 10th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
2014 버질아메리카 10주년 기념 초대전
김길숙 개인전
Date: April. 22th to May. 26th, 2014
Reception: April. 22th, 6pm
JNA Gallery @ Bergamot Station Art Center
add: 2525 Michigan Ave, Building D4, Santa Monica, CA 90404
http://jnagallery.com
T: 310.315.9502
Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Sunday & Monday by Appointment
The artist Kim, Gil Sook’s works are not painting of copying something or of reproducing specific shape.
Since non-objective abstract painting in modern art history is an act for seeking essential of painting, it is likely to see her works from a view of an experiment in forms on a flat painting space based on the flow in modern art history, which is a common practice.
If you directly see her works, however, you will feel something stirring even without any shapes or symbols of a concrete object.
Although her works do not reproduce visible shape, they make you feel weird as if you encountered huge existence or you were absorbed into some energy.
That can be partly because her works are of a huge scale but more significantly because they imply beyond what canvas shows with overwhelming movements of brushes and screens themselves painted with those strokes of the brushes.
what the artist says is, however, that these movements of brushes are resultes from erasing or making a stop for something rather than for drawing one. She says she would spend a few months or even years getting emotional and excited or focusing her energy before anvas to create a piece. It takes a while more before she starts making the brush strokes. Once she begins to work on the piece, in the blink, she finds something that she has longed for and intended to see after focusing, stopping and erasing the screen which has already been painted. It is exactly when she stops the work. From this point of view, the empty space called canvas can be space where nonverbal emotions such as shivers or inspirations are coming back to the artist. In some sense, because the canvas can be seen as empty space where all the memories are erased rather than nothing is on, it can be rather appropriate space where the artist can find the non-shapable world with some existence or feelings which is not suject to verbal expressions. Through it can seem to be space of oblivion at a glance., it can also be open space of hope where the memories can be found by raising and erasing the curtain of oblivion through her work.
As blurred focus can suddenly be sharp, the artist focuses more on meeting the moment of inspiration which has been longed for by the artist by erasing than on making a drawing. That is why the artist could wait before the canvas so long. The scene of canvas encountered through
김 길 숙
청주 사범대학교 미술교육과
개인전
2011 현갤러리, 서울
2012 물파 스페이스 갤러리, 서울
2013 LynJ갤러리(부에나팍,미국)
그룹전
2011 五人五色 (현갤러리, 서울)
2012 Art and Love (갤러리 그림안, 서울)
2013 그리고 전(갤러리 일호,서울)
2013 바람에 날리다 깃발 전(Sanbernadino,USA)
2013 Gallery Laguna6(Laguna beach,USA)
2013 Love Art Studio(Sanbernadino,USA)
2013 The Art Gallery(Pasadena,USA)
2014 Red Apple3 Gallery(LA,USA)외 다수
주소: 서울시 종로구 부암동 185-6/ 2층
Mobile : 010.2747.9227
Kim, Gil Sook
Fine Arts Education, Cheongju University
Solo Exhibition
2011 Gallery Hyun, Seoul
2012 Mulpa Space Gallery, Seoul
2013 Lyn J Gallery(Buena park,USA)
Group Exhibition
2011 五人五色 (Gallery Hyun, Seoul)
2012 Art and Love (Gallery Gleeman, Seoul)
2012 Greego (Gallery Iilho,Seoul)
2013 Gallery Laguna6(Laguna beach,USA)
2013 Love Art Studio(Sanbernadino,USA)
2013 The Art Gallery(Pasadena,USA)
2014 Red Apple3 Gallery(LA,USA)
Address: 185-6 Buam-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
Mobile: +82.10.2747.9227
