The Riverside Gallery is pleased to present Movement, the solo exhibition of Tai Woong Kang, featuring 30 pieces of his most recent works. The show begins on August 7th, 2017 and is on view until August 21st. The opening reception is Thursday, August 10th, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Since moving to the United States 20 years ago, one of the main goals of Tai Woong Kang as an artist was to reconnect and communicate with nature through utilizing both two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums in his work. The titles of his works have varied from “Dreams and Daily Life,” “Vestiges” to “Circulation” and most recently “Movement”. Color is one aspect of the “Movement” series that Kang derives from the harmonies of nature. Alternating between complementary colors that have stark contrasts to more subdued analogous colors, Kang’s exploration of the relationships between colors and projecting the various energies that emanate from them captivates the eye. Another crucial component of Kang’s works is the element of gesture in which he records his physical movements by manipulating multiple layers of paint by splattering, dripping and scraping, resulting in an infinite number of colorful specks and unique textures overlapping onto the surface. Within the constant layering and disclosing of these painterly marks emerge new abstract forms that actively move across the canvas. It is this dynamic, which represents Kang’s message of hope that all things in nature would move towards the restoration of humanity from the effects of the corrupted world.

Kang has had 37 solo exhibitions and participated in over 400 group exhibitions in South Korea, Japan and the United States since 1986. His most recent solo exhibition took place in Sharma Art Museum in Cheongju, South Korea. Tai Woong Kang was born in Seoul, South Korea. He received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Chung-Ang University in 1986 and 1990. He immigrated to the United States in 1998. He received his M.A. from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and worked as an artist based in New York. He has moved back to South Korea since 2012 and is currently a professor at Chung-Ang University College of Arts.

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