As part of my ongoing effort to support Korean artists here in American I love to showcase unique works right at the Jason J Kim Oral Design New York Lab. And currently have installed works by the incredibly talented Yongjae Kim.
His works including Late Afternoon and Drift 2013 have been placed all over the lab and they are both beautiful and haunting. An interesting look at the urban world around us here in NYC and beyond.
Yongjae Kim(b.1985) is Brooklyn based artist, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Kim works predominantly on representational painting that describes psychological landscape of isolation and alienation in urban environment. Kim completed his M.F.A. at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2014and B.F.A. at Seoul National University in Seoul in 2011. He received Best Color Work Award at 2014 KSCS International Invitation Exhibition of Color Works in Korea. In 2015, he is granted the membership of Elizabeth Foundation of Arts in New York. His works have been shown at Attleboro Arts Museum, the Boiler in 2014, and Porter Contemporary in 2015. He attended Joshua Tree Highland Artists Residency Program in 2013.
