{"id":10340,"date":"2023-07-18T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:03:14","slug":"kang-seok-ho-at-tina-kim-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/kang-seok-ho-at-tina-kim-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Kang Seok Ho at Tina Kim Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The short lag times between reading late artist Kang Seok Ho\u2019s paintings at <a href=\"https:\/\/tinakimgallery.com\/exhibitions\/129-kang-seok-ho-deep-is-the-rising-sun-far-is-the\/\">Tina Kim Gallery<\/a> as abstractions and then understanding them as representations of the human body generates little thrills of discovery.\u00a0 In this untitled painting, the energy of the bold floral pattern is overwhelming; a second later, two arms to either side resolve vivid leaf-like shapes into the pattern on a skirt, seen from behind.\u00a0 Abstraction becomes decoration, fine art becomes fashion, and flatness turns into curving form in just seconds while reading this vibrant and monumental painting.\u00a0 In selected paintings from c. 20 years at Tina Kim, radical cropping (Kang worked from photos he took or found in mass media sources) allowed the artist to zero in on bodies without faces, the better to put the focus on form over identity.\u00a0 Inspired by Asian landscape painting, Kang connected his contemporary vision of life with histories of rendering the natural world, rooting observations of the now with enduring imagery from the past. \u00a0(On view through July 29<sup>th<\/sup> in Chelsea).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/ea0c97a1-631e-33e8-521f-4bfede1beb23.jpg\" width=\"2314\" height=\"2644\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kang Seok Ho, Untitled, oil on canvas, 92 \u00bd x 80 \u00be inches, 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short lag times between reading late artist Kang Seok Ho\u2019s paintings at Tina Kim Gallery as abstractions and then understanding them as representations of the human body generates little thrills of discovery.\u00a0 In this untitled painting, the energy of the bold floral pattern is overwhelming; 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