Riverside Gallery presents the Group Exhibition from January 30th to February 18th, 2023, with an opening reception on the 11th, from 4 to 6 pm.

The Artists:

Harriet Sobie Goldstein

Harriet Sobie Goldstein is a versatile artist who paints landscapes, abstracts and Figurative paintings as well as making prints. Ms. Goldstein paints works in acrylic and in oil on canvas. Her forte is her use of color to heighten emotional intensity. Sometimes her colors are bold, while at other times subtle. Writing in the Newark Star Ledger, art critic Eileen Watkins, described her paintings as “Lyrical.”

Jinhee Kim

Jinhee Kim fills and erases her canvas through her imagination. She visualizes her inspiration, which is her vent of illusion, and puts words and orders onto the canvas. She might have identified a dream through her unconscious mind. A dreamer simply accepts the situations of images without any objection. Kim, however, captures those images and combines them with her sense for visual composition. She collects those images to fulfill her aesthetic desire or allow them to change into new images with changed meaning. Her works are not merely facilitators of communication because they don’t directly reveal the stories to the viewer. For Kim, her art is more about provoking an enigma rather than appealing to her audiences by manufacturing a world within painting. She liberates representational functions of colors and forms, which were the original duty of art, and she describes and imitates the visible world, as well as revealing her repressed identities within her inner world. The style is very infantile, and her wits overcome it. Also, Kim reproduces the essentials of nature in non-representational ways; therefore, her paintings are like nature that does not want to be disturbed or decorated - nature includes the truth, but doesn’t reveal it. Her works are appreciated as nature-like repositories of imagination, enabling maximum polysemy thinking with minimal expression. Lastly, she paints as if she is enjoying the freedom of the moment.

Chung Young Kyung

Young Kyung Chung’s works, the mixed media pieces made of a buildup of materials that also peel off of one another, overcome their grotesque and dissonant nature by the elegant and harmonious expression of color.

Woon Joo Park

Woon Joo Park’s acrylic and silkscreen works illustrate majestic trees that overlap to form abstract shapes and layers, and they represent breathing, as the lungs have similar internal structures called trachea.

David Hollier 

Born and raised in Wolverhampton in the U.K. David Hollier now resides and works from his studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, N.Y. David Hollier creates images of cultural and political icons as composites of their famous words in the form of painted and typed text. Part social commentary and part documentary, Hollier’s work literally blurs the lines between pop culture and politics and invites us to consider the power of words to influence and endure. He is represented by New Apostle Gallery in NYC, Gilles Clement Gallery in Connecticut, and Ap-Art Gallery in London.

Ga, Kook-Hyun

Kook-hyun Ga is “the alchemist who shapes neatness of form through varied color.” By rigorously applying elaborate patterns of color to a “blank” form or space, Ga achieves visual depth and form abstract experiences and sensations that reach a meditative level. In this way, Ga appears to adopt a view that within nothing there is something at the infinitesimal scale, and something is a nothing within the infinitely large scale. The way Ga flattens form from three-dimensional perspective into flat shapes of symbolic and abstract roles is perhaps the main reason why Professor Byon argues that Ga’s works sit in an ambiguous state of abstraction and representation.

Marsha Heller

In Marsha Heller’s paintings, the viewers will experience her landscapes, skyscapes, intimate details of nature or its broad vistas, as acts of passion rendered through an artist’s discipline. The fragments of beauty which she encounters everywhere imbue the images with power and delicacy in equal measure. Heller’s color palette, with its extraordinary range from bold to soft and shimmering, is less concerned with empirical fact than with experienced truth. And yet, the facts of nature are there: in the brilliance of light, the burst of wetland grasses, the roil of wind, all rendered through strokes of color and suffused with energy.

Jung Chul

Jung, Chul is a painter who uses abstract marks to make landscapes about the land and people’s relationship to it. Jung strives for a poetic kind of quality to the ephemeral and abstract marks that occupy the paintings as spatial or temporal regions, which the artist intends to be purely abstraction but borderlines representation due to their suggestive shapes or appearance. The title of his previous exhibition, “Energy Tuning,” could suggest the kind of energy that the land brings to its people in Eastern tradition,

Alice Stoler

Alice Stoler makes abstract landscapes in the tradition of abstract expressionism, following the lessons of Franz Kline and other action painters, as well as color field artists such as Hans Hoffman. Her works sit in an ambiguous style between abstraction and representation.

Art Boden

Born and raised in Newark, NJ, Art Boden attended Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, The Art Students League, The New School, and Pratt Institute. He subsequently worked in design studios and advertising firms as a layout artist, illustrator, graphic designer and lastly, art director. He joined IBM where Paul Rand launched an innovative corporate design program. His focus gradually shifted from design to fine art, with focus on acrylic paintings. Art’s paintings and prints are influenced by his background in graphic art as well as the historical artists such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Jean Dubuffet. His style is geometric/organic abstraction with elements of figuration.

Art Boden fragments the composition and the various objects and figures that are hidden within it, with vibrant colors that partially hide their identity as seen by an external viewer; simultaneously, the fragmented style reveals the internal state of the people and objects as being one of harmony and energetic excitement.