Chunbum Park: Questioning – Opening Reception
Chunbum Park: Questioning solo exhibition opening reception
Location: Space 776 (37-39 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002)
Time: January 10, Friday, from 6 pm to 8 pm
Admission: Free
Space776 New York is pleased to present Questioning, by Chunbum Park (b. 1991, South Korea), their first solo exhibition with the gallery organized by curator Isaac Aden. The main locus of Park’s painting as culled from the title is to signal deeply personal matters of their identity and desire while contending with the cloistering cultural repression to remain on a sociologically straight path. Park’s exhibition features feminine presenting paintings coupled with bouquets of flowers. The feminine paintings represent an imagined idealization of the potential of Park’s identity. Crossing over seems to be a subtly signaled and a recurring theme in their work. While bouquets of flowers may signal different things within different communities, they are often given as gifts of friendship or romance, and they undoubtedly indicate an underlying sense of love. Likewise, Park lovingly attends to the surface of their canvases. Park’s paintings are at times so heavily impastoed they cause the mouth to water as if enjoying a peanut butter sandwich. Other times Park makes use of thin and sensuous washes of amber glows. However, what remains constant is Parks questioning the possibilities one can present both inside and out of a painting. This dichotomy is perhaps most aptly signaled in their painting, “I Wanna Be Me”.
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