Riverside Gallery presents the Summer Collections Showcase II from July 14th to 31st, 2023, featuring the works of Taiwoong Kang, Sungmo Cho, Taemo Yang, Minseok Kang, Jinhee Kim, Kook-Hyun Ga, Kyunghoon Min, Mikyoung Yun, Jung Chul, et al.

About the Summer Collections Showcase II:

In the second summer showcase, we display a wide range of artists and their works, dealing with contemporary problems and solutions.

In his Movement Recovery series, Taiwoong Kang makes paintings to help guide people, who are struggling to find peace in modern society, to a “purer, natural state.” The paintings depict the yin and yang through the language of movement and gesture.

Sungmo Cho paints the “Along the Road Love Road” series to discuss the attributes of civilization, which includes the presence of roads and road signs; the moon is always present as a guide and a source of light in the night sky. Cho believes that love is the solution to the problems of our civilization and humanity, to avoid an apocalyptic demise.

Taemo Yang, currently a Professor at Dankook University, makes collage and mixed media works that utilize different materials with tranlucent or opaque qualities as to demonstrate the density of air and to acknowledge the elements in nature and their importance to our human existence.

Minseok Kang originates from Busan and paints heavy impasto imagery, drawing symbolisms and iconography from the contemporary pop culture that includes animation and online video games, as well as East Asian heritage.

Following her imagination, Jinhee Kim utilizes the processe of filling and erasing to visualize her unconscious dreams and illusions. She transforms the dream into painting with her sense for composition and meaning. Her work, which is self-described as being of a “infantile” and witty, reveals her repressed identities that reside in her inner world.

By rigorously applying elaborate patterns of color to a “blank” form or space, Kook-Hyun Ga achieves in his work the visual depth and form abstract experiences and sensations that reach a meditative level. Ga flattens form from three-dimensional perspective into flat shapes of symbolic and abstract roles; this is why Ga’s work is described as sitting in an ambiguous state of abstraction and representation.

Kyung Hoon Min is an artist who creates paintings in watercolor and acrylic, similar to abstract expressionism. The works express a burst of energy and/or the constitution of emotions via action painting with splatters of paint and movement of the brush or palette knife. The quality of abstraction in Min’s paintings is distinctly lyrical, in the tradition of Arshille Gorky and John Hoyland.

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.