Michelle Grabner, Byron Kim
James Cohan
48 Walker Street New York NY 10013
Tel 212.714.9500 Fax 212.714.9510 e-mail:
Multiple location : New York(2)
EXPO CHICAGO 2021
Navy Pier 600 E Grand Ave Chicago, IL 60611+1 312-867-9220 e-mail:
April 8 > 12, 2021
For the inaugural EXPO Chicago Online, James Cohan will present a two-person exhibition of work by Michelle Grabner and Byron Kim, featuring selections from each artist's latest body of work. The online fair is open to the public from April 9 through April 12, with a VIP Preview opening on April 8.
Michelle Grabner is known for her broad perspective developed as teacher, writer and critic over the past 30 years. Her artmaking—which encompasses a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, video and sculpture—is driven by a distinctive value in the productivity of work and takes place outside of dominant systems. In this latest series, Grabner's subtle paintings probe into the nature of difference. Secure white grids become wonky and individualistic. They radiate, vibrate and dissimulate. Colors emerge and dissipate. The artist asks, "How much 'difference' can be introduced into a pattern field without collapsing into unreliability?"
Byron Kim works in an area one might call the abstract sublime. Kim's paintings often appear to be pure abstractions, but upon investigation, they reveal a charged space that often connects to the artist's personal experiences in relation to larger cultural forces. Expanding on Kim's practice of portraiture, these new works are oceanic portraits, based on photographs taken by the artist or from personal memory of observing and being in the ocean. Kim is looking at the ocean in a direct, observational, and tender way, meditating on its rich history as a subject in art history and literature - man's relationship to nature and the sublime.
Michelle Grabner is known for her broad perspective developed as teacher, writer and critic over the past 30 years. Her artmaking—which encompasses a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, video and sculpture—is driven by a distinctive value in the productivity of work and takes place outside of dominant systems. In this latest series, Grabner's subtle paintings probe into the nature of difference. Secure white grids become wonky and individualistic. They radiate, vibrate and dissimulate. Colors emerge and dissipate. The artist asks, "How much 'difference' can be introduced into a pattern field without collapsing into unreliability?"
Byron Kim works in an area one might call the abstract sublime. Kim's paintings often appear to be pure abstractions, but upon investigation, they reveal a charged space that often connects to the artist's personal experiences in relation to larger cultural forces. Expanding on Kim's practice of portraiture, these new works are oceanic portraits, based on photographs taken by the artist or from personal memory of observing and being in the ocean. Kim is looking at the ocean in a direct, observational, and tender way, meditating on its rich history as a subject in art history and literature - man's relationship to nature and the sublime.
 | Michelle Grabner | |
| | Byron Kim | |
VIP Preview :
April 8 from 9 AM EST
