Lisa Breslow
Jayne Holsinger
Min A Kim
Hee Joung Kwon
William Steiger
Gallery Korea is pleased to announce the opening
of Stark Narrative on December 13th. This exhibition
of paintings and video will continue until December
29th. The imagery in this exhibition is inflected
with the hint of a story, aspects of an event and
the mystery of place.
Jayne Holsinger depicts members of family gathering
in the dark around a bonfire. Her careful, vivid
painting imbues the ordinary with the idiosyncratic.
These pictures are enlarged from photographs and
large overexposed areas are used to dramatic effect.
Hee Joung Kwon also makes pictures from photographic
images but her snapshots come from the urban,
public space of a city. The figures stand, walk
and sit in oblique relationship with each other
and there is the sense of movement, of people
looking before speaking or just watching and passing
by.
William Steiger paints architectural structures
that recall the engineering achievements and technological
ambition of an industrial era. His linear style
creates perspective views that dazzle the eye
in ways that recollect the impressive effect of
the cast iron engineering. Lisa Breslow's landscapes
are suffused with the misty light of pastoral
fantasy. The surfaces of these delicate compositions
are scraped by the artist’s deft work with
a palette knife and indicate transformations of
opaque material into illusory space.
The video films of Min A Kim record basic actions
that are built up through repetition and variation
into cohesive narrative structures. In one short
film a ball bounces down a stair well in a haphazard
but regular descent. There is the trace of a story
or the shadow of history either personal or public
evoked in the different works in this exhibition.
