L.A. ARTCORE PRESENTS
A GROUP EXHIBIT WITH ARTISTS
MICHELLE OH, HIROKO YOSHIMOTO, KATHY YOUN SOOK KIM
JUNE 20TH-August 15TH, 2014
Reception – Sunday August 3rd
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. – Artcore Brewery Annex
Conversation With The Artist Series: 2 p.m.
L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex
LOS ANGELES, CA (June 22nd, 2014) For the first of two exhibits this month at Artcore’s Brewery Annex, three painters will display their love of using intense color in creating abstract art. Each artist has working methods that are unique, making for a stimulating view of how many different directions we can go starting from the same basic departure of a single medium.
Michelle Oh is a very gestural painter, working with great sweeps of color, wet on wet combined with marks and swirls, seeking to capture the closest simulation of her emotional state. She believes this physical action will inevitably reveal the deeper, more complicated side of her humanity. Reflecting that the questions we ask about life, and the answers we form, ultimately sculpt our inner lives in a way that is reproduced in our feelings and everyday actions, painting is a place where the deepest convictions can be revealed in the simplest, most purely emotive way.
Hiroko Yoshimoto lives in Ventura County, where she is active in cross-disciplined use of her talents in arenas like theatre and music. Her paintings are tremendous, vibrant samples of the seeming chaos of organic life, more collision that composition, a kind of balance that is a real spectacle to behold. Working as though the canvas had no edges, the complex and defined elements of color produce purely abstract results, but of a effortless complexity that could only be reproduced in close-up views in nature’s own texture, like a handful of sand under a magnifying glass, or the life-forms that fill every droplet of seawater.
Kathy Youn Sook Kim creates compositional abstractions that scratch and collide themselves into taut surfaces full of tension. Using color to create space and distance, using mark to join and relate, the artist has a up-close, manual approach to her painting. The intense working of the surface collects the hours and days of activity, creating a record of the artist’s presence. The overall result is a kind of static formed entirely of color, and nicely contrasts the other painters.
-By Robert Seitz
Michelle Oh: http://vergilamerica.com/?p=106
Hiroko Yoshimoto: http://www.hirokoyoshimoto.com/
Artist Reception:
Sunday August 3rd, 2014, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Conversation With the Artist Series at 2 p.m.
L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex
650A S. Ave. 21., Los Angeles, CA 90031
Gallery hours: 12-5 p.m., Thu-Sun.
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