“HYUN AE KANG IS AN IMPORTANT KOREAN ARTIST, WHOSE ABILITY TO COMBINE TRADITIONAL CULTURAL INFLUENCE WITH HER OWN UNIQUE TECHNIQUE AND CONTEMPORARY VISION RESULTED INTO INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM.” HYUN OFTEN UTILAZES VIBRANT COLORS WITH LAYERS OF CAREFULLY APPLIED PAINT TO CREATE WORKS WHICH ULTIMATELY SERVE AS REFLECTION OF HER DEEPLY PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL MEDITATION.
A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF HYUN AE KANG’S PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES ON VIEW AT BOCCARA ART BROOKLYN GALLERY DECEMBER 1, 2018 – JANUARY 1, 2019.
In her art Hyun combines traditional Korean spirit and Western abstraction, using preliminary natural materials, mostly wood, to create her innovative, rich in colors and texture mixed-media works.
Snow 8-3, 2018 Mixed-media on wood 29 9/10 × 39 4/5 × 2 2/5 in; 76 × 101 × 6 cm
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2018 MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER, DEC 22 – MAR 18, 2019 (ANAHEIN, USA) 2018 BOCCARA ART BROOKLYN GALLERY, DEC 1, 2018 – JAN 1, 2019 2017 YACHT CLUB DE MONACO, BOCCARA ART, NOV 16 DEC 31 (MONACO) 2017 CENTER GALLERY, AUG 28 OCT 23 (ANAHEIM, USA) 2016 MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (ANAHEIM, USA) 2015 MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (ANAHEIM, USA) 2014 MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (ANAHEIM, USA) 2002 GALLERY 3 (FULLERTON, USA) 2002 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT ELIZABETH EDWARDS FINE ART AND BONNIE BOISITS (PALM DESERT, USA) 2001 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT ELIZABETH EDWARDS FINE ART (LAGUNA BEACH, USA) 1998 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT CERRITOS LIBRARY (CERRITOS, USA) 1991 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT HYUNDAI GALLERY (SEOUL, KOREA)
Her art reveals the wonder and the sublime residing wishing nature, her inner desire to share her journey of faith, reflecting her longing to have her life shaped by the presence of the Divine. Her works are thus a quite and deeply personalized meditation on her relationship as an Artist with an Almighty Redeemer. Snow 8-5, 2018 Mixed-media on wood 29 9/10 × 39 4/5 × 2 2/5 in; 76 × 101 × 6 cm
Gleam 2-1 and Glam 2-2, 2018 Mixed-media on wood 20 1/10 × 59 4/5 × 2 in each; 51 × 152 × 5 cm each
Sunrise, 2017 Mixed-media on wood 29 9/10 × 39 4/5 × 2 in; 76 × 101 × 5 cm
Why South Korea’s monochrome painting movement is the art world’s latest obsession. Think of South Korea today – K-pop, karaoke and plastic surgery will surely come to mind, followed by images of Seoul’s cutting-edge districts, where the latest trends in food, fashion and art are being cooked up and served to a public hungry for the new. It’s almost hard to imagine that 40 years earlier, the avant-garde was embodied by a loose group of artists, among them Lee Ufan, Park Seo-Bo, Chung Chang-Sup and Kim Whan-ki and others whose meditative paintings were inspired by processes, materials and nature.
Today Korean Artists are among the hottest and most desirable names on the art market. World-renowned museums like New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Paris’s Centre Pompidou and Hong Kong’s very own M+ acquire Korean Artists for their permanent collections.
High Noon 1, 2017 Mixed-media on wood 35 4/5 × 35 4/5 × 2 in; 91 × 91 × 5 cm
High Noon 2, 2017 Mixed-media on wood 35 4/5 × 35 4/5 × 2 in; 91 × 91 × 5 cm
Forest, 2015 Mixed media on wood 24 × 24 × 4 in; 61 × 61 × 10.2 cm
Window to Heaven, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm
Window to Heaven - I, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm
Window to Heaven, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm
Window to Heaven – II, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm
Window to Heaven - III, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm
Window to Heaven - IV, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm
Cosmos 5-2, 2017 Bronze, prite and amethyst 5 × 14 × 2 1/2 in; 12.7 × 35.6 × 5.1 cm
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1991-2016: 2016 2016 2015 2013 2002 1995 1993 1992 1992 1991
AHAF ART SHOW (SEOUL, KOREA) ASIA CONTEMPORARY SHOW (HONG KONG, HONG KONG) CROPS OF LOVE ART EXHIBITION (SEOUL, KOREA) MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (ANAHEIM, USA) PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR (PALM SPRINGS, USA) GROUP EXHIBITION (THE ART MUZEUM OF SEOUL) KOREA FINE ART GRAND EXHIBITION (SEOUL, KOREA) EXHIBITION OF MODERN KOREAN SCULPTURE EXHIBITION OF KOREAN FINE ART TODAY EXHIBITION OF KOREAN FINE ART ASSOCIATION
SELECTED COLLECTIONS: SINCE 1993 SCULPTURE TOGETHER AT THE ART MUSEUM OF SEOUL SINCE 2015 AT MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER SINCE 2016 AT BREA MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Cosmos, 2017 Bronze and pyrite 7 1/10 × 9 2/5 × 9 2/5 in; 18 × 24 × 24 cm
MOST RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016-2018: 2018 . AFAF 2018 (Fukuoka, Japan) 2018 . ART SHANGHAI2018 (Shanghai, China) 2018 . ART MIAMI 2018 (Miami, USA) 2018 . ART SANTA FE (Santa Fe, USA) 2018 . AFFORDABLE ART FAIR (Hong Kong) 2018 . ART NEW YORK (USA) 2018 . ART PALM BEACH 2018 (Florida, USA) 2017, 2018 SCOPE Miami (USA) 2017 . AUCTION AT BOWERS MUSEUM (Santa Ana, USA) 2017 . MADE IN CALIFORNIA AT BREA GALLERY (Brea,USA) 2017, 2018 ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW, HONG KONG
SELECTED COLLECTION SINCE 2018 . PAINTING THE CROSS IN MY HEART AT SARANG COMMUNITY CHURCH OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 2018 . PAINTINH NOAH'S ARK AT BUEJON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN BUSAN SINCE 2016 . SCULPTURE THE BREA HILLS AT BREA MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY SINCE 1993 . SCULPTURE TOGETHER AT THE ART MUSEUM OF SEOUL
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