Young-sung Kim

Shiloh Langwell

Painting 1

Molly Zimmer

10/29/2017

Young-sung Kim

For my second artist I chose Youn-sung Kim, a Korean impressionistic painter. Kim’s works seek to explore the consumerism of our world, and try to identify the intrinsic values of the many things within it. Born in 1973 in Seoul, Korea, Kim tries to incorporate some of his own views of culture and values into his paintings.  Aside from the beautiful details in his work, I find the titles unique. All of his works are titled [Nothing. Life. Object], and something about that really fascinates me. Most artists who do such intricate work also have a title that says something about the work. These titles also say something about the work, but they speak more to the intent of the artist than the physicality of the pieces. Kim has also had his work in multiple exhibits and solo shows.

All works are oil on canvas and are titles [Nothing. Life. Objects]

∎Solo Exhibitions

2016 Redsea Gallery Invitational, Brisbane

2014 COOHAUS ART Invitational , New York

2013 Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul

2012 R. Mutt 1917 Gallery Invitational, Chuncheon

2008 Gallery K Invitational, Seoul

2007 Gana Art Space, Seoul

1998 Korea Youth Biennale Invitational / Daegu Cultural Center, Daegu

1997 Do-ol Art Town, Seoul, etc 18 times.

∎Art Fairs & Group Exhibitions

2017 A Sustaining Life/ Waterfall Gallery, New York

2016 BIAF Special Invitational Booth/ Bexco, Busan

Winter Show 2016 / Plus One Gallery, LONDON

Hyperrealism : Breathe Alive/ Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan

Summer Show/ Gallery Valentine, New York

Alive Paintings : Hyperrealism/ GS Caltex Yeulmaru, Yeosu

2015 KULIM KIM, YOUNGSUNG KIM Two Artists Show / OCI Museum, Seoul

Fermented Souls / Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York

ART 2015- World Top Three Art Masters special booth / Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei

2014 ABFA GROUP EXHIBITION 1.0 / ANTHONY BRUNELLI FINE ARTS, New York

2014 FEEL LIFE / Waterfall Gallery, New York

2014 Fish Painting Exhibition / Naeseolak Public Museum, Inje

2013 North Seoul Museum of Art Opening Exhibition / Seoul

The hare and The Tortoise Exhibition / Yangpyung Art Museum, Yangpyung

AHAF / Hotel Conrad Seoul, Seoul

Art Hamton / Benefits Guild Hall, New York

Korea Galleries Art Fair / COEX, Seoul

2012 Hyperrealism Paintings: Unfamiliar Life / Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

MANIF Seoul International Art Fair / Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

2011-2013 KIAF/ COEX, Seoul

2011 FINE ART ASIA 2011 / Hong Kong Convention Centre, Hong Kong

THE FIRST Exhibition / Sungnam Arts Center, Sungnam

Collection & Collection 4 / Yeouido Shinhan PB, Seoul

2010-2012 Korea Conceptual Competition / Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

2010-2012 Doors Art Fair / Imperial Palace Hotel, Seoul

2010 Kim Young Sung, Choi Kyung Moon, Two Artists Show / Gallery A-Cube, Seoul

Art & Company Young Artist Competition / Gallery Sono Felice, Hongcheon

2009 Korea Selected Artist Exhibition / Municipal Art Museum of Seoul, Seoul

2007 Rest : Take Exhibition / Gallery Royal Opening Exhibition, Seoul

2002-2004 Donga Art Festival Invitational Exhibition / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon

1997 Contemporary Art Exhibition for the World–Wave of Forms / Munhwa Ilbo Gallery, Seoul

1996 Korean Contemporary Art Wave / Central Artist House, Moscow, etc 70 times.

∎Awards

1997 MBC Art Competition – Encouragement Prize

New-Frontier Competition – Outstanding Prize

Contemporary Sculpture Competition – Special Selection

Sanghyung Group Competition – Special Selection

1996 Korea Youth Biennale – Young Artist Awards of Korea

Donga Art Competition – Special selections in Painting and Sculpture Divisions

Jungang Biennale – Selection in 2D Division

MBC Korea Conceptual Sculpture Competition – Selection

Korea Art Competition – Selection, etc 30 times.

∎Collections - Seoul Museum of Art, Art Retreat Museum, OCI Museum, Hoseo University, HI300 Golf Club, etc.

Botond Kuti

Clare Fallon

Painting 1

Octobe

Botond Kuti is the Son of successful artist Kuti Denes. He is a Hungarian artist from Transilvania born in 1984. He attended a fine arts high school. His art has a loose realistic style to it. He often uses high contrast that pushes the figures forward. He doesn’t fully finish the figures and will just leave an outline or a suggestion of an outline. The bodies he paints all have a very strong sense of weight to them when looked at. I personally really like the way Botond has a high contrast in the piece of the couple laying together. He brings a contemporary take on an old style of painting which is something I’ve tried to do in some of my past pieces.

Photos from: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://aboveart.ru/portfolio_page/botond-kuti/&prev=search

Daniel Sprick

Clare Fallon 

Painting 1 

October 

Daniel Sprick was born in Arkansas in 1953. Daniel went all over the place for school. He attended Mesa College in Grand Junction, CO in 1973. Then Ramon Froman School of Art. Followed by the National Academy of Design in New York, NY in 1976 and finally got his BA at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO in 1978. Now he currently lives in Denver working in his apartment studio. He most recent work focuses on the diversity of people. His subjects included the homeless, obese, skinny, ill, black, white, asian, pretty, ugly, old, and young. Each painting was pushed to the extreme with Sprick’s skill in realism. However this series is different from his previous realism paintings. Sprick’s portrait series is an exploration of abstract realism. All the faces are extremely realistic and immediately draw the eye in but as the eye moves farther away from the face, places like the hair and body are noticeably abstract and are more suggestive. Daniel Sprick’s artwork is wonderfully technical and the subject matter is strong as well.
I chose Daniel because he’s the first professional and nationally known artist I met. He and his art left an impression on me. He was incredibly nice and not snotty like the rich art buyers there to meet him for their own street cred. He was kind of shy and spoke more through his art than he did in his talk. I, being a fan of realism ever since kindergarten drawing animals that started with whatever letter we were learning about that day, was amazed seeing someone who had the skills like a renaissance artist. It inspired me to try to improve as much as possible in technique. I hope now I can start experimenting with suggesting shape rather than creating the whole.

He currently has work in the Denver Art museum.

Katie and Lulu 2012 oil on bored 20x16

Ketsla 2013 oil on bored 26x18

Chad 2010 oil on bored 20x16

Tho 2012 oil on bored 12x16

Jared 2011 oil on bored 30x20

Ketsla in profile 2013 Oil on canvas on bored 22x28

Photos from http://www.danielsprick.com/portfolio2.asp?ID=76

Francis Lisa Ruyter

Annie Reynolds

Painting I

Molly Zimmer

October 23, 2017

Francis Lisa Ruyter

Francis Lisa Ruyter is an American born artist raised in Maryland. Ruyter is known to use paint and permanent marker to recreate images from photographs that he takes. By working from his photographs, the artist is successful in capturing the intimate angles for which many of his works are known. Ruyter's process involves transferring his photographs onto surfaces and resolving them into line drawings, resulting in semi-abstracted, two dimensional renderings of the subjects, \\the final product being a balanced mix of synthetic and realistic imagery. I find some of his pieces to be a little hectic due to the intense neon colors and often busy composition. My favorite works that I have seen of his are the ones in which he uses slightly more muted colors and are less packed with straight lines and geometric shapes, a good example of this is the painting titled Marjory Collins: Washington DC. Dancing class at an elementary school.

Recent exhibitions include: the Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art, Athens; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Kunsthalle Krems; Kunstbuero, Vienna; Kunsthaus Graz; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and the Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki Japan.

Walker Evans ‘Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama’, 2011

Acrylic on canvas

47 1/5 × 39 2/5 in

120 × 100 cm

 Russell Lee: Daughter of agricultural day laborer in bedroom of home in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 2012

Acrylic on line

48 × 65 in

122 × 165 cm

 Walker Evans ‘Auto parts shop. Atlanta, Georgia’, 2011

Acrylic on canvas

59 1/10 × 74 4/5 in

150 × 190 cm

 Marjory Collins: Washington DC. Dancing class at an elementary school , 2016

Gouache and Pencil on Watercolor Paper

14 1/5 × 18 7/10 in

36 × 47.5 cm

Peckinpah, 1999

Screenprint in colors, on Moulin des Berger paper, with full margins

30 × 42 1/5 in

76.2 × 107.3 cm

Edition 30/60 + 10AP

Francis Ruyter, www.lisaruyter.com. Accessed 22 Oct. 2017.

Ruyter, Lisa. Lisa Ruyter: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Alan Cristea Gallery, 2012

REMINDER Greenhouse and Museum Visit this week

Hi Class, 

You will only need your sketchbook, pencils, eraser, markers, or other dry media for this week. 

You do not need to bring your models to class as we are not painting in class this week. 

I wanted to remind you all that this week we are going to the Biology Greenhouse on Monday. We will meet at class before walking over. 

Wednesday, please meet at the the UNM Art Museum (located in Popejoy hall) at 5:30. PLEASE ARRIVE 5-10 MINUTES EARLY IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT BE LATE. We want to be respectful of the curator's time who will be showing us around after hours. After the visit, we will be looking at some images in the classroom. 

Molly

Agnes Martin

Ryan Barfield 

10/23/17 

Painting 1 

Molly Zimmer 

Agnes Martin was a Canadian born abstract painter. Her painting style spawned out of her experimentation with abstraction which led her to the minimalist style she is known for today. Her paintings are large, usually 5-6 feet on each side, and comprised of 1-3 pale, luminous colors outlined in grid pattern. The grid is drawn with graphite pencil and often times fades away near the borders of the canvas making the lines both indistinguishable from far away and to seemingly float in space. The light pastel-like colors engulf the lines from far away creating a richness to the paintings. The softness of her colors is accentuated by the opaque white gesso that is the starting point to all her paintings and never gets completely covered up. Neither do the pencil marks that create a unified, repetitive structure the closer you get. The longer you look at the lines the more your eyes start to contort and change the painting. All of these elements add up to a painting that’s meant to evoke feeling internally in a personal way. 

"My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind" 

-Agnes Martin 

I Love the Whole World

1524 x 1524 mm. Acrylic paint and graphite on canvas

1999

With My Back to the World

152.5 x 152.5 cm. Synthetic polymer plate on canvas

1997

Wood

27.7 x 27.7 cm. ink on paper

1964

Untitled #5

1829 x 1829 mm. Acrylic paint and graphite on canvas

1991

Untitled # 7

Acrylic paint and graphite on canvas.

1977

Works Cited

Martin, Agnes. (2012). Agnes Martin: paintings, drawings, rememberances. London Phaidon Press. 

Martin, Agnes.  "Agnes Martin at Tate Modern" 2015. www.https://www.artsy.net/show/tate-agnes-martin