임충섭-배소현 2인전: 바람, 물, 돌 

 

9월 19일-11월 2일

@소코토갤러리, NY  

 

뉴욕 아티스트 임충섭(Choong Sup Lim) 화백과 배소현(SoHyun Bae) 작가의 2인전 'Wind, Water, Stone'이 9월 19일부터 11월 2일까지 첼시의 소코토 갤러리(Sokoto Gallery, 529 West 20th St #5Fl.)에서 열린다. 오프닝 리셉션은 9월 19일 오후 6-8시. 

 

전시 타이틀 '바람, 물, 돌'은 주 인도 대사, 하버드대, 케임브리지대 교수를 지낸 멕시코 시인 옥타비오 파스(Octavio Paz, 1914-1998)의 1979년 동명 시 제목에서 따왔다. 자연의 요소들인 물, 바람, 돌은 지속적인 순환에서 상호작용한다. 물은 돌을 침식하고, 바람은 물을 분산시키며, 돌은 바람에 대항하는 장벽을 제공한다. 세계의 모든 것이 견고하고 영구적인 것처럼 보일지라도 서로 연결되어 있으며 끊임없이 진화한다는 철학적인 주제를 담고 있다.  

 

임충섭 화백은 1941년 충청북도 진천에서 태어나 서울대 졸업 후 1973년 뉴욕으로 이주해 작업해왔다. 그의 작품은 메트로폴리탄뮤지엄, 워싱턴 DC 스미소니언의 허쉬혼뮤지엄, 서울 리움삼성미술관에 소장되어 있다. 배소현 작가는 1967년 한국에서 태어나 8살 때 미국으로 이주, 로드아일랜드디자인스쿨(RISD) 졸업 후 보스턴대에서 석사, 하버드 신학대에서 박사학위를 받았다. 그의 작품은 샌프란시스코 아시아미술관, 하버드대 피바디 고고학및민족학박물관, 서울 예술의 전당 한가람미술관 등지에서 전시됐다. 

 

*배소현 작가 개인전 'Wrapped Shards' @소코토갤러리, 2005

https://news.koreadaily.com/2005/02/24/life/artculture/339294.html

 

*K-Artist: 배소현 SoHyun Bae 

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/?mid=Art2&document_srl=3834573

 

 

SoHyun Bae-Choong Sup Lim

Wind, Water, Stone

 

September 19 – November 2, 2024

@Sokoto Gallery: 529 West 20th St #5Fl. 

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 19, 6-8pm

 

 

Choong Sup Lim: Untitled (Cold Flower), 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 54x22x8 inches/ SoHyun Bae: Untitled (Waterfall), 2021, rice paper and pure pigment on canvas, 81x60 inches 

 

 

Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Wind, Water, Stone, a two-person exhibition of recent works by Korean American artists SoHyun Bae and Choong Sup Lim. This will be their first two-person exhibition at the gallery. The reception is on Thursday, September 19, 6-8pm.

 

This exhibition encourages us to think expansively about the creative process and takes its title from a 1979 poem “Wind, Water, Stone” by the celebrated Mexican poet Octavio Paz, first published in English in The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz 1957-1987 and put together by the poet’s English translator Eliot Weinberger. The poem, as summarized by the poet Roger Caillois explores the interconnectedness and transformational qualities of water, wind, and stone. Each element interacts with and influences the others in a perpetual cycle of change. Water erodes stone over time, wind disperses water, and stone provides a barrier to the wind. These interactions illustrate the dynamic and fluid nature of existence, where each element takes on roles of creation, containment, and movement in a continuous cycle. The poem reflects on the philosophical idea that everything in the world is inter-connected and constantly evolving despite their apparent solidity or permanence.  

 

Despite their varied experiences working across different time periods, SoHyun Bae and Choong Sup Lim manage to engage in an intergenerational dialogue while continuing their long-standing commitment to the exploration of a completely personal and original style of abstraction whose true meaning lies not merely in formal arrangement but in spiritual meaning that fuels intangible ideas around human nature while simultaneously meditating on the human condition. As artists who continue to live and work in New York over several decades, they have developed a highly experimental approach to making art that combines acute awareness of the role of transnationalism in the creative process with a deep passion for exploring the nuances of their Korea America heritage to create works of universal resonance that often defy easy categorization.  

 

SoHyun Bae is Korean by birth, American by upbringing and cosmopolitan by experience. She creates mixed media works on canvas that address issues of personal and cultural identity. Her rich complex compositions draw on the visual traditions of both Asian and Western art in a manner that is neither superficial nor eclectic but rooted firmly in her belonging to both cultures. There is a lyrical beauty evocative of shifting interior and exterior spaces that belies the surprising seamlessness between the spiritual and physical worlds. There is value for spontaneity and improvisation in her work that engages the viewer directly and viscerally as ideas are distilled into swirling or meandering marks that heighten their perceptual subtlety. Bae’s work approaches a perspective universal enough to include all of us. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in Fine Arts, 2007; She was a resident artist at The Corporation of Yaddo and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, among others. Her works were exhibited worldwide in galleries and museums including the Asian Art Museum of SF, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum, Museo Nacional di Visual Artes in Montevideo, Sotheby’s, NYC, and Philips de Puny Luxembourg  

 

Choong Sup Lim is a versatile artist whose work in diverse media including painting, sculpture, drawing, installation and video draws on past wisdom and future possibilities to create relevant dialogue across time. Embracing improvisation and experimentation as an ongoing conceptual approach, his work strives to reveal the subjectivity and individuality of the artist, and seeks to strike a balance between nature, object and composition. There is an intellectual rigor in his work that reflects subtle understanding of context and total control of the material he uses which makes possible an intimate integration of vision and matter. The beauty of Lim's art lies in its ability to tell stories that transcend borders and speak to universal audiences. Born 1941 in Jincheon, Chungcheong Buk-do, Choong Sup Lim graduated from Seoul National University in 1964, and moved to New York in 1973, where he continues to live and work ever since. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian’s Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Korea.

 

 

Sokoto Gallery

529 West 20th St #5Fl.

https://skotogallery.com