Kanghwa Lee “The Stroll”

Able Fine Art NY Gallery

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Able Fine Art NY Gallery presents “The Stroll”, a solo exhibition of artist Kanghwa Lee. The exhibition will be comprised of Lee’s emotive paintings, which delineate the winsomeness of the natural world. Rather than approaching the imagined fictional, the artist transcribes her fascination and visceral bond with reality, which reflects her elevated consciousness and ability to find the exceptional in the every-day. The fair intricacy of her works assists the audience in falling back in love with reality, rather than helping them trying to escape it; by following in Lee’s footsteps, we find beauty in all that we seek, in all that surrounds us.

Lee, Kanghwa received her artistic training at Seoul University in Occidental Painting before pursuing further education at Paris Diderot VIII University in Art and Design. She has exhibited her work and participated in art fairs internationally in numerous countries; South Korea, China, Japan, Ecuador, Turkey, France, Indonesia, and Germany. As an established artist, she’s been the recipient of the Soneun Art Award. When she isn’t painting, she shares her expertise with her students at Sejong University. Her incredulous span of exposure reflects deep-seated maturity and understanding in a breadth of artistic spheres.

Just as the seasons come naturally, Kanghwa Lee has found an innate connection between herself and the earth, as seen in the symphonic concord of thistles in Rhythm. The artist’s canvases, often based from Lee’s memory and psyche, capture the congenial mystery of life held by the palpable forces of nature and its creation. Lee’s adoption of a contradictory background, as seen in Conceive, presents a sense of suffering in its great abyss. The pang of despair found in the void is balanced with the profusion of nature in the composition’s foreground of a peony, communicating its continuity from the era of creation to the present and its steadfast capacity to stabilize. With each passing year composed of periodical circulation, Lee revisits her esteemed gratitude towards the blossoms of her garden in Ganghwa Island. She never tires of the budding clusters of efflorescence, which may be the reason Kanghwa Lee doesn’t wish nor feel obligated to rhapsodize her artworks; through the beauty which she perceives in everything, with an appreciation of the living, the artist romanticizes her realistic paintings.

As Lee explains, “I have decided to stay focused for a while longer on those that bloom, wither and bud[…]an urgent need for time to focus on a life that follows the flow: to learn from nature[…]to let change what changes and let be what can be.” The artist’s paintings surpass a link with reality; their addressal of rebirth reawakens the audience’s reverence towards life’s simple pleasures. As her renderings embrace the world for its authenticity, the spirit of humanity becomes one with nature in an unconventional soul-searching experience.

Able Fine Art NY Gallery has long history of introducing exceptional emerging and established international artists to the New York audience. By recognizing young talents that retain and embrace traditions yet express them through original and exciting voices, Able Fine Art NY Gallery seeks to create a bridge between times and cultures.

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Schedule

from November 17, 2017 to November 30, 2017

Opening Reception on 2017-11-17 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Kanghwa Lee

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