American Debut
Experience Inkie Whang’s first exhibition in a private American gallery, a large installation of the artist’s signature colored silicon dollops on gridded and brightly-hued canvas boards. Twelve large unique pieces highlight or obscure images derived from historical painting and contemporary meditations on nature. The artist has selected and then pixilated simple mountainside huts, a fisherman poling out on a lake and the reflective surface of Korea’s Upo swamp, among other subjects, at times abstracting the imagery into seemingly meaningless data. These carefully selected images reference contemplative traditions rooted in Confucian and Buddhist ideas of the sage and how such ideas might interface with the rectilinear and binary world of technology.
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