Grace 1J23 (2023) Painting by Hyun Ae Kang
Seller DAKKARA Art Galleries
Size US: 96 × 240 × 1 in
Hyun Ae Kang combines traditional Korean painting with Western abstract imagery using natural materials to create innovate mixed-media works that are rich in both color and texture.
Hyun Ae Kang was born in 1959 in South Korea. She studied contemporary sculpture at the Ihwa Women's University in Seoul, where she received a bachelor of fine arts (1986) and a master of fine arts (1991). Her earliest works are largescale sculptures made of different metals, wood and stone, in which the artist tried to Express the supernatural, visually denoting the mundane only by hints. Subsequently, Hyun Ae Kang was most fully able to realize her artistic quest in an abstract painting, which she still works with today. The artist's experience as a sculptor can be traced in the rich texture of her paintings, in which the paint strokes resemble ceramics. Hyun Ae Kang currently lives and works in California, USA.
The artist's works are in public and private collections all around the world, for example: in the Seoul Museum of Art (the Seoul Museum of Art) in South Korea. Korea, the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center in Anaheim, California, and the Brea Museum and Historical Society, California.
In 2020, Hyun Ae Kang's major solo exhibitions were held at Accademia Fine Art & Auction House in Monaco and Museo Dei Bozzetti in Italy. Her work will also be featured in an retrospective at the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center in Anaheim in 2022. The exhibition will be the first retrospective of the artist In the United States and will present works from the early period in South Korea, as well as new projects.
Hyun Ae Kang actively participates in numerous international art fairs, including Art Miami, Art Central Hong Kong, Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary, LA Art show, Art Shanghai, Art New York. The artist's current estimate is 15000€-20000€ and it constantly growing. Her works are of high interest to investors, as evidenced by the auction. In 2019, Hyun Ae Kang's work "Sunrise" was sold at the Accademia Fine Art & Auction House Monaco in Monaco for €18000.
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Hyun Ae Kang is a famous contemporary artist from South Korea. She is a follower of the South Korean creative style dansaekhwa, or "monochrome painting," whose practitioners were defined by the multi-layered texture of their works and a spiritual approach to creating art. But Hyun Ae Kang moves away from monochrome and continues to create abstract paintings.
Kang explores the interplay between the theoretical and the natural through elements of sculpture. Pure geometric shapes, such as the sphere or cube, unfurl into amorphous forms whose irregularity evokes a sense of the primordial. Similarly, the uncanny smoothness of polished stone or bronze is disrupted by craggy patches resembling biomatter. Even Kang’s choice in mediums is an interrogation of the two seemingly oppositional concepts; by juxtaposing burnished bronze with grainy wood or translucent marble with impenetrable obsidian, Kang embraces material alterity to achieve visual harmony.
Hyun Ae Kang was born in 1959, in Korea, where she received both her BFA and MFA in sculpture from the prestigious Ewha Womans University. Kang's artworks are in the permanent collections of the Art Museum of Seoul, the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center in Anaheim, California, and the Brea Museum and Historical Society, in California. She lives and works in California, USA.
- Nationality: SOUTH KOREA
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
- Groups: Artists presented by a gallery
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