Eun Jim Kim Exhibition
Zürcher Gallery
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Zürcher Studio will introduce the work of Eun Jim Kim in its project room. The exhibition will include glazed stoneware sculptures and works on paper.
Jin’s work stems from her interest in Buddhist philosophy and the interplay between fantasy and the sublime. Born and raised in Korea, and a recent graduate of New York University’s Master’s in Fine Arts program, Jin is developing a visual language that melds traditional decorative and utilitarian arts with the realms of the bizarre and the surreal. Jin is interested in the meditative practice of art making, and engages in an unplanned path toward the completion of an artwork. As such, the works have an earnest and whimsical quality to them. While the sculptures, such as a pair of breasts melting into disembodied heads, tend to take on distorted or contorted bodily qualities, the large-scale drawings contain intricately patterned surfaces with tiny representational surprises. They are deeply engrossing images—imbued with an energy that belies the soothing black depths of the paper’s surface. Jin is interested in the practice of automatism, or the performance of actions without conscious thought or attention, and as such, her work is both beautiful and crude.
For this exhibition, the pairing of drawings and sculpture and the organic with the inventive, provides an animated entrée into a rich body of work by a promising young artist. Jenna Komarin
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Schedule
from January 09, 2010 to January 14, 2010