{"id":11038,"date":"2025-01-27T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=11038"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:42:09","slug":"na-kim-at-nicola-vassell-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/na-kim-at-nicola-vassell-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Na Kim at Nicola Vassell Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mood and atmosphere are the subjects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.na-kim.com\">Na Kim<\/a>\u2019s serial paintings of an imagined young woman, now on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolavassell.com\/exhibitions\/29-na-kim-memory-palace\/\">Nicola Vassell Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea.\u00a0 Gazing impassively from a dark interior, standing against an abstracted landscape so that her hair joins with the horizon line, or immersed to the shoulders in a dark pool, a solitary figure conveys subtly different emotions heavily dependent on the color and lighting of her surroundings.\u00a0 Idealized, planar faces sometimes recall Paula Modersohn-Becker\u2019s self-portraits while yellow, green and red tones bring Fauve portraiture to mind, but the focus of Kim\u2019s work is reflected light and surrounding shadow that suggest various psychological states.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Feb 22<sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/9462a27c-4283-5dd1-03b2-17c9ef4b796e.jpg\" width=\"2268\" height=\"2853\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Na Kim, Untitled: 8, oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mood and atmosphere are the subjects of Na Kim\u2019s serial paintings of an imagined young woman, now on view at Nicola Vassell Gallery in Chelsea.\u00a0 Gazing impassively from a dark interior, standing against an abstracted landscape so that her hair joins with the horizon line, or immersed to the shoulders in a dark pool, a &hellip; 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