Brooklyn, New York, Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is proud to present Encounters, twelve monumental paintings by HeeSook Kim and a video installation collaboration with Christopher Shultis. This is Ms. Kim's third solo show at the gallery. Join us on Friday, May 8th from 6 - 9 PM for a public reception at the gallery's Williamsburg location of 293 Grand Street between Roebling and Havemeyer. This event will be in conjunction with the Williamsburg Gallery Association 2nd Friday where local art spaces will be open late. The public is invited to attend this event and visit the gallery during regular hours: Wed - Sun 11 AM - 7 PM, and Mon. 9 AM - 5 PM. For more information contact the gallery at 718.218.8939.
Artist Statement:
Words are openings, portals to other worlds rooted in magical places where sense is a new way of thinking, where thinking is embodied in breathing. Intimate visual spaces conjured by spirituality invites viewers to a special journey: into an imaginary land, the work. When I immigrated to a new country, with its different environments, foreign languages and people, living and communicating were for me a struggle and challenge, sometimes enjoyable, but also agonizing. I feel like a permanent alien, one who doesn't emotionally belong anywhere, but who belongs physically to America: a wild plant living in unknown places, which has a healing power, a power hopefully found in my work.
About Hee Sook Kim
Hee Sook Kim's works have earned her several artist residencies in the US and abroad. In Japan, her prints and paintings appeared at exhibitions at the Osaka City Museum, the Fukuoka Prefectural Museum and the Doyusha Gallery. She has also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, the Drawing Center, Asian American Art Center, Bronx River Art Center, and the Queens Museum in New York, Lincoln Center in Colorado, and the Museum of Natural Sciences at North Carolina. She has also been the recipient of a Pollack Krasner Award. Additionally, her art has been shown in major museums and art centers in Asia and Europe. Ms. Kim's pieces are in many collections throughout the United States, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
