Dialogue (2018) is one of Ufan Lee’s paintings in a series of the same title, in which a largely blank canvas is marked only by two swathes of color: red in the top left corner, and blue on the bottom right. The vertical grooves of the upper form gradate from…

In the groundbreaking psychologist Carl Jung’s “Desert,” from The Red Book, he explores his soul to the core of his unconsciousness. He writes, “to find their soul, the ancients went into the desert….the place of soul is a lonely desert.” There is a contemporary K-Pop group that illustrates Jung’s theory…

Artist Seo-bo Park began his “Ecriture” series as a young father in 1967, inspired by his son’s handwriting practice. He uses acrylic paint on Hanji, the traditional Korean paper, which creates an earthy texture through which the Park attempts to achieve appeasement, unpossessment, and embeddedness of his life with nature…

As a museum goer and art viewer, I always wonder about which artworks that collectors decide to purchase after looking at them, forming an opinion, most likely, I assume, a positive one, and deciding to spend a particular amount of money on them. And these collectors may be like your…

At first, it seemed like many other Korean paintings done with Indian Ink, but Frankfurt Cafe (2017) grabbed my attention amidst the bustling of Art Asia, a fair that focuses on work exclusively by contemporary Asian artists. Bora Min is a young up-and-coming artist. Her use of lightbulbs behind the…

La Clairvoyance(1936) by Rene Magritte I believe there is no way we can have a discourse about the relation of human perceptions, the eye, and visual without mentioning the works of Rene Magritte. Magritte’s oeuvre always contemplates the way we — our eyes, mind, heart, soul — perceive the daily subjects. While all of his…

Directed by Sang-ho Yeon, Peninsula is the sequel to Train to Busan (2016). Four years have passed since Korea was devoured by a horrific zombie virus. Now the entire country is in lockdown. …

My body is floating in the air. There is a tingling in my bottom belly. An itch. No, it’s the butterflies in my stomach. It’s the feeling you get just before you urinate. White cotton clouds are cleared away from my sight. Or am I moving? I squint my eyes…

April 21, 2020 It was like love at first sight. I was instantly drawn to the radiating beauty of delicately woven beads in the room-size installation standing in the corner of the 6th Floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. …