Gallery Korea is pleased to announce the presentation
of a group exhibition, Pictures and Stories, from
May 21 to June 18, 2002. The five artists in this
exhibition work in various genres and each articulates
distinctive scenarios in illusory pictorial space.
Teresa Vadala’s large pastels feature people
engaged in domestic activities. The figures are
brightly colored but defined with deep shadow that,
with sharp interior lighting, lends suspense to
a familiar scene. In the expressive canvases of
Son Young-Sun, figures are meshed with objects in
a shallow pictorial space filled with vibrant colors
and dynamic movement. Recurring images birds and
flowers suggest multicolored dreams and an aspiration
for flight and integration with the natural world.
Kiho Nam builds planar compositions with various
materials such as carpets or sheet lead. Figures
and objects are defined as silhouettes and this
creates the appearance of stasis, yet the crude
physicality occasionally gives a sense of wrestling
movement to the figures.
The installation by Joonhyun Kim consists of enlarged
images reproduced from newspaper advertising that
are placed on the gallery walls. Superimposed in
this are painted images of a candle in full flame
evoking an incongruous marriage of the sacred and
profane. Robert Mahorney draws on paper that is
mounted on wood. He then surrounds the image with
a thin layer of gesso and covers the whole with
a layer of wax. A myriad of lines in the drawing
creates an intricate construction containing tiny
figures enclosed in tight spaces and discrete recesses.
The pictures in this exhibition are constructed
with a variety of materials and processes that in
different ways elaborate aspects of each artist’s
vision.
