Minseok Kang is a painter who is currently finishing his BFA at the School of Visual Arts (2023). He deals with the hybrid fusion of the pop culture images from Japanese anime and video games, and the historical/traditional iconography of his Korean/Northeast Asian heritage. Kang utiilizes sprays, digital prints, and heavy impasto to create brilliant and dazzling combination of colors that boldly pronounce and illuminate the subject matter. Most of Kang’s paintings depict a figure or a flower in a portraiture-like centered composition, providing the subject with room and composure. The experimental nature of Kang’s approach to painting promises the continued relevance of figurative painting in the 21st century.