EXHIBITION

Quantumn One

St. Joseph's University Gallery, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 02/16/2015 - 03/27/2015

5600 City Avenue

ABOUT

Sky Kim’s drawings, paintings, and installations are full of palpable tensions and despite the abstract nature of her style, viewers come to relate to each piece in a subconscious way; her forms as flowing yet stagnant, comforting yet disturbing, and loud yet quiet.  Kim has described her work as “vaguely sensual, obsessively organic, and oddly alive”.  Her pieces are largely influenced by the loss of her twin sister at birth; they act as a remembrance of her while also serving as a link between the two sisters who never had the opportunity to meet.  However, Kim says that it is not necessary to know her personal story to be able to connect with her pieces; she wants them to be dependent on their own emotions and personal stories that are drawn out through her art.

All of Kim’s works are labor-intensive and meticulously constructed, allowing the viewer the opportunity to get lost in them.  Her works are as much abstract as they are a testament to her personal time, space, and emotion she feels during each moment of their creation.  She says her creative process comes out of the noise that resonates from within her inner self as well as the stillness that comes the wake of it. 

Kim is often turns to depicting circles in her art because of her philosophical belief in reincarnation.  She says the circle and repetition of line contained within them, represent the wheel of life which is constantly turning from life to life as time goes on.  These circles are overflowing with energy with no sign of beginning or end; when the eye travels through the piece it inevitably comes back to the place it started, just like, according to Kim, our life process goes in the principle of Yin and Yang.

Kathryn Carter 2015

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Sky KIM

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