Meeyoung Kim(LEEWHAIK GALLERY)
Meeyoung Kim uses the painterly method of placing thick chunks of paint on the canvas and sculpting clay to imagine a musical movement of her personal experience of the senses discovered through traveling. In Kim’s series of works defined by their salient features, materiality that extends beyond the frame establish clearly perceptible patterns within rules on the surface of the canvas and demonstrate a pictorial exploration linked to the human body by giving variations to density and volume of paint.
Meeyoung Kim (b.1984) graduated from Ewha Womans University with a BFA and MFA in Korean Painting, and then went on to continue her studies at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, where she majored in painting. She has been building a unique formative world through her artistic practice and by participating in residency programs and exhibitions in various cities and countries around the world, including Paris, London, Iceland, and Finland. Kim’s work, full of bold brushstrokes that appear as though the intense primary colors of oil paint are dancing on the canvas, is completed using the “wet on wet” method, which involves adding another color paint over a still wet layer of paint on the canvas. Even the coincidental situations that result from the rhythm and speed at which she paints as well as the mixing of wet paint function as factors that construct abstract images unique to her work. She seeks to breathe life into the still canvases by transforming them into moving paintings with brushstrokes and color. Kim recently held a solo exhibition titled Transparent at the LEEWHAIK GALLERY, where she presented an experimental work that demonstrates the transparent quality of oriental ink-and-wash paintings on the canvas.
Meeyoung Kim, 〈The Painter's Orchard〉, 2016, Oil on canvas, 180 x 165 cm.
Meeyoung Kim, 〈Run to the Sun〉, 2022, Oil on linen, 210 x 180 cm.
Meeyoung Kim’s work, full of bold brushstrokes that appear as though the intense primary colors of oil paint are dancing on the canvas, is made using the “wet on wet” method, which involves adding another color paint over a still wet layer of paint on the canvas. Even the coincidental situations that result from the rhythm and speed at which she paints as well as the mixing of wet paint function as factors that construct abstract images unique to her work.
