Curated by Hye Seong Margaret Tae

Organized by AHL Foundation

Exhibition Date: May 31 - November 30, 2019

Reception: Wednesday, June 12, 2019, 5:30 -  7:30 PM

Venue: Bank of Hope Manhattan (16 West 32nd Street, New York, NY 10001)

Viewing Hours: Monday through Friday 9 am - 5 pm

The AHL Foundation is pleased to announce Morning Melody the solo exhibition of Suzy Taekyung Kim, on view at the Manhattan branch of the Bank of Hope. This exhibition will feature eight artworks selected from Kim’s most recent project ‘Morning Melody’ series and curated by AHL Foundation’s 2018 Curatorial fellow Hye Seong Margaret Tae.
 
In this commissioned exhibition, Tae curated to present one large-scale mixed media painting, ‘Spring Stroll’ as Kim’s representative artwork of this show and featured together with seven small paintings.  Reaching to 188 inches width and 38 inches high, ‘Spring Stroll’ is a large quadriptych with four large wood panels joined together and painted with acrylic, mica, genuine gold and colored silver flakes.  The soft pastel tones on its background gradually flow from the blue range to the green, and to the yellow to depict the transition of seasons.  The composition of fluffy petals and buds of magnolias are abstractly drawn and painted with horizontal streams of a range of background colors.  Together with the glittering fine lines drawn with genuine gold and colored silver flakes, the fine details of this artwork should be closely observed.  The perpendicularly dripping water on the surface reflects the artist’s soothed emotional states that comforted her while contemplating water streaming in nature.  The glittering fine lines drawn in between the buds and petals in the spring scene of nature would deliver the vibrancy and energy of spring and summer to the audiences.