Using digital processes, Korean artist Kim Joon creates amazing conflations of human bodies, ‘tattooed’ with animal skins, logos and designs that touch on individual identities while creating anonymous abstract sculptures. (At Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Chelsea).
Kim Joon, Somebody 005, digital print, 2014.
LA based artist Ry Rocklen takes self-branding into actual product marketing with a tongue-in-cheek installation of the clothing in his wardrobe, cast in porcelain or copper plated. A graffiti-covered door is also preserved for the ages with copper, silver and gold leaf infill turning the banal into the beautiful. (At Untitled Gallery on the Lower East Side through June 15th).
Ry Rocklen, installation view at Untitled, foreground: To be Titled (Tagged Door), wood door, hardware, copper leaf, silver leaf and gold leaf, 2014. Shoes: copper plating, 2013-14. Wall: Porcelain casts of clothing, 2008-14.
