2D x 3D = Boundless, NY x LA = ∞

Exhibition: August 6 – 15, 2022 | Exhibition hours from 1pm – 6pm

Opening Reception: Friday, August 12, 2022 from 6pm – 9pm

2D x 3D = Boundless
NY x LA = infinite      

Art is the act of facing the future and also serves as a thorough attempt to understand one another. 

2D and 3D forms are often seen as separate categories.

However at their core, they use the same language that artists utilize to hold visual conversations. They are tools for communication that cannot exist without one other. 

A dot forms a line, and lines that create planes, create sculptures. They do not exist in isolation and instead work in collaboration to create boundless potential where anything becomes possible.

The same can be said about the regional differences between NY and LA. Instead of characterizing these two cities as competitors or as separate entities, they can be seen as one unit. Together, these cities carry infinite possibilities in their ideas and creations. 

Through the collaboration and union of both the 2D and the 3D, we are given a boundless and infinite experience through the works of these 8 artists from NY and LA.

I hope this exhibition will be a valuable and precious memory for the artists and the viewers; a chance to break regional-centric views and explore beyond the differences in materiality and methodology. Further, I hope both parties come to know, learn, share and continue their artistic journeys, not only through their works, but also in their lives.
Curator,  Grace Yeonsook Ji

Young-Hun Kim reflects on today’s digital world mixed with the real world. He demonstrates this phenomenon through the Korean Hyuk-pil technique allowing his electric yet delicate strokes of colors to melt into each other like our world today. 

Young-Hun Kim received his MFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of Arts London and from Goldsmiths college; he received his BFA from Hongik University, Seoul. 

He is represented by Soluna Fine Art, Hong Kong and Galerie Richard, Paris.

His collections include the National Contemporary Art museum, Seoul, Bank of America, New York and Leeum Samsung Museum of art Seoul, and Art Net collection etc.

Da Aie Park works with nature to bring life to her monochromatic paintings. Her painting philosophy follows that she is only the vessel to put pigments on the canvas and the delicate nuances of sunlight, temperature, and humidity of day to guide the direction of her final product. Through this meditative and intimate process, her work reflects her internal being through fermented hues and layers.

She received her BFA at Seoul National University and has had multiple solo shows In Los Angeles, New York, Kentucky, Fukuoka Japan, Nagasaki Japan, Seoul Korea, Italy, German and Thailand. Currently she exhibits multiple shows in Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles.

Ji Oh is a visual interpreter who strives to uncover the ironic beauty of an idea to create surreal and provocative work. She reveals this concept by stripping mediums from their traditional essence. Through the non-traditional deconstruction and reconstruction of the materials she gives her pieces new life physically and visually when seen from close and afar. In detail her finished work leaves viewers with colored particles that shine like jewels.

Ji Oh received her MFA from Claremont University and BFA from Cal State Fullerton. She had solo shows in LA Art Show, PYO Gallery, LA Artcore Center etc. and Group Shows at Shatto Gallery, KIAF, Art Singapore, Australia, Tokyo, Osaka, Toluca Mexico, Paris, Pacific Asia Museum etc. She was awarded in Japan and LA and has curator experience and public art installation.

She was reviewed by the LA Times and Peter Frank etc.

David Jang is interested in understanding the human experience in relation to the feedback loop between us, earth and technology. His work is reminiscent of circuitboards made by cutting, wielding, and manipulating recycled aluminum cans. This is significant to highlight the cycle of life and death in relation to our time on earth with technology and the human experience.

David Jang received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and BFA from the College of Visual Arts.

He has shown multiple solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the globe. These include LACMA, LA Art Show, Palm Spring Art Fair in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Florida Miami, New Jersey, New York, the Gwanghwamun Design Biennale South Korea, Hong Kong, Beijing, Germany, Netherlands, Toronto Canada, Nagasaki Japan, Philippines, Napoli Italy. He was also reviewed by Art Week LA.

Won Kyung Kim studies the tension between organic and inorganic, and conscious and unconscious. To express the conflict and collision of these extremes she uses diverse materials such as rectangular tubing or straight wires. The colliding images create the synthetic encounter of thesis and antithesis that go beyond life. Her work ranges from studio art to environmental sculptures, or macro to micro while pursuing “reterritiorialization”.

Won Kyung Kim received her MFA at Cal State Long Beach and BFA from Seoul National University. Her solo exhibitions include Thomas Paul Fine Art Gallery, Hak Go Jae Seoul, Gallery Q Tokyo Japan. She hasshown at the 2002 Busan Biennale, Seoul Metal Biennale, Samsung Plaza Gallery, Canada, Cheongsam Ju City, Busan University, Shin-Chon Railroad Station, Kim Jong Hak Museum, Centum City Compound, Masan Museum, AnYang, Dae Lim apt. Judson Corporation, Amnam Sculptural Park, CheongDam-Dong Daelim Apartment, Hanaegi Museum Tokyo, Japan.

She has also shown in San Diego, Washington, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, SNU Museum, etc.

She has also taught at Dong Eui University, Kyunggi University Graduate School, Sejongi University Graduate School, and At Cal Technical College of LA, CA.

Myug Gyu Lee hopes to make work that directly conveysher emotions without a need for verbal explanation. To achieve this she uses claythat is manipulative, easy to handle, and yet when fired almost permanent.

She subconscious becomes a visual experience. Feelings of weariness and helplessness replaced by joy and hope. She removes rigid frames to give her work more room to breathe. She work is no longer stationery, but rather floating and flying in space. Through this, her work comes to life and energy of their own. 

Myug Gyu Lee received her BFA from Seoul National University and MFA from Otis & Parsons School of Design LA.  She has shown in both the 2021 Diaspora Arirang and That Time in Shatto Gallery, New Mexico, Korean Culture Center LA, 1994 Third World Arts Festival, and The Art Brewery in LA.

Hak Sul Lee cognitive understanding, and pleasure deriving from the compelling visual sensations are all that matter. Reference and storytelling are often used but secondary. He believes in Formalism that is subjective and personal; but this wouldn’t be incomprehensibly different from one another as we share similar physical, intellectual, and social anatomy. Through forms, colors, and movements with or without references, he looks after a visual ecstasy he can clearly feel. He hopes to share this pleasure with others who may have similar physical, intellectual and social anatomy.

Haksul Lee received His BFA in Sculpture from Kwandong University and his Ba from Queens College Queens. He has show in Flushing Meadows, The Green Thumb Community, the Phyllis Harriman Gallery, Korean Embassy and Pyo Gallery in Beijing China, the Sculptors Alliance 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Affordable Art Fair, 2022 Alliance for Flushing Meadow Corona Park grant, Airport Queens, the 2012 M2M Public Sculpture Project, RiverSide Park South and has work collected by The Factory, in Long Island City.

He has worked as a Studio Assistant for Bruce Dorfman, and as a Metal Fabricator for Louise Bourgeois.

He’s been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

M. Clark creates dynamic conversations between constancy and chaos by sculpting malleable metals. As light interacts with the textures and shapes in the artwork, the reflective surfaces create diffuse patterns producing a shifting luminosity that is unique to her work. This provides the viewer with an infinitely evolving viewing experience.

While Clark’s art is non–representational, the use of space, movement, and line in composition evoke emotions like peace, confidence, disquiet, or vigor. The mood of a piece might call up a memory or point in time. 

Each piece is created in her New York City studio over many weeks using a specialized technique that Clark developed.

Clark received her BFA specializing in graphic design from Brigham Young University. Her works are owned by collectors around the world, have been featured in international publications, exhibited in the Smithsonian, and received multiple awards including an Award of Excellence from The Kennedy Center.