POP! POP! POP! POP! Colors of their own… | June 30 – July 6, 2025
The exhibition will run from June 30 – July 6, 2025 from 12 – 6pm
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 | Opening Reception from 5pm – 8pm
Exhibition will be closed on Friday, July 4, 2025
In a world bursting with sound, rhythm, and emotion, “Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! – Colors of Their Own” brings together four distinctive artists who reimagine color as voice, gesture, and soul. Through playful energy, poignant memory, meditative balance, and explosive symbolism, this exhibition celebrates the power of individual expression within a collective harmony.
Hyon Hee Cho Hartberger (Hyon Hartberger)
BIG AlE, Hyon Hartberger’s iconic alter ego, watches over a swirling cosmos of symbols, memories, and intuitive marks. Her vivid lines and crowned figure are bridges between cultural memory and imaginative freedom. Her work, part surreal diary and part spiritual garden, invites viewers to lose and find themselves within a color-drenched emotional topography. Korean typography meets street rhythm—introspective, yet loud.
Hakkyun Kim
With bright hues and childlike forms, Hakkyun Kim’s Super Baby series embodies hope, irony, and Eastern philosophy through the lens of pop art. His works tap into the emotional language of modern humanity, where a singular character—part hero, part question—becomes a vessel for visualizing inner desire and resilience. “Pop” here is both aesthetic and existential.
Myung-Sook Lee
For over 50 years, Myung-Sook Lee has studied the silent language of light and color. Her painterly collages—seemingly cut from air and intuition—evoke the movement of wind through forests, or sunlight through stained memory. Fusing Western abstraction with Korean stillness, her meditative compositions radiate energy, balance, and emotional peace. Each work feels like a whispered symphony in color.
Naderson Saint Pierre
Bold, unapologetic, and rhythmic, Naderson Saint Pierre composes with color as if with sound. Deeply rooted in Afro-Caribbean identity and contemporary social currents, his canvases pulse with life, resistance, and liberation. Through layered textures and vibrant palettes, he shapes visual poems that demand both reflection and celebration. Pop is reclamation, affirmation, and a dance of being.
Curated by Grace Yeonsook Ji, this exhibition invites viewers to witness how color speaks—individually, culturally, universally. Here, “pop” is not just a style, but a heartbeat: a burst of meaning, a flash of truth, and a celebration of each artist’s unique rhythm in the collective chorus of contemporary expression.
