{"id":471,"date":"2018-11-30T23:41:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v2.dartmagazine.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:33:14","slug":"confluence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartmagazine.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Confluence at The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Keith
Keith Kattner, The Four Seasons, Winter, 2017, oil on canvas, 24″ x 30″s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
by Robert Curcio<\/i><\/h6>\n

Confluence<\/i> is an unassuming yet poignant and sincere exhibition featuring Keith Kattner with seven American and Korean artists that are working in parallel only to converge at this moment of exhibition. The exhibit joins together a variety of cultures, memories and traditions with innovation to address underlying personal, artistic and world view concerns.<\/p>\n

Kattner\u2019s fourteen paintings are the heightened convergence of the exhibit with seemingly subdued scenes that in fact are energetic interventions of art references, modern life versus an idealized \u201cgood old days\u201d, and pastoral mingling with urban. All coming together in Kattner\u2019s structural theme of entropy with its uneasy transfer of imagery in equal measure of disorder and diversity\/destruction and creation. Kattner creates a pictorial leveling off of all differences within the painting while falling into a more complex and highly ordered system.<\/p>\n

In Kattner\u2019s Thor and the Little Red Rooster<\/i>, the background is typical Hudson River School trees, a threatening sky and a bolt of lightning, but with a monolithic modern building directly in the painting\u2019s center. Off to the left there is an all-American Hooper-esque house where a woman(?) and cat are on the porch. While in the foreground a municipal work crew at a train crossing is removing a downed tree, complete with chainsaw, truck, safety cones, tree chopper and a few guys standing around.\u00a0 And the little red rooster, well he\u2019s right up front.<\/p>\n

Throughout history artists have painted the four seasons and Kattner\u2019s The Four Seasons<\/i> are sublime kitsch.\u00a0 Spring<\/i> is a bucolic scene of people enjoying the day by a body of water nearby stands a group of farmhouses with some type of modern looking metal contraption. A luxurious day by a body of water is captured in Summer<\/i> with thick black\/reddish smoke billowing from stacks.\u00a0 Fall<\/i> is a depiction of a crisp day by a body of water where people gather pumpkins, bundle the harvest and skin an animal while jutting into the sky is a metal tower with a light on top; possibly a cell tower.\u00a0 The trees are bare and the ground covered by snow in Winter<\/i> as people by a body of water build a snowman, huddle by a fire, play on the ice and there is a warm glow coming from a home with someone\u2019s red pick-up just protruding into the left of the painting.<\/p>\n

\"Keith
Keith Kattner, Thor and the Little Red Rooster,\u00a02018, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The little red rooster is equal to the god Thor\u2019s lightening bolt, an almost identical body of water in each painting, people with no discernable faces, the colors and lighting have a similar tonality and quality throughout all fourteen paintings.\u00a0 The sense of randomness and order in near uniform extent affects every inch of Kattner\u2019s canvases, as well as our seeing and comprehension of the paintings.<\/p>\n

The totem-like sculptures by Hoo Chang Lee are reflections of light representing the illusory nature of visual experience.\u00a0 Raphaele Shirley\u2019s large photographs from her Artic Lights<\/i> series documents a light environment where one\u2019s understanding changes depending on the viewer\u2019s position in relation to the work.\u00a0 Yong R. Kwon\u2019s \u201cpaintings\u201d are not seen until the lights come on when hundreds of handmade stainless-steel discs reflect and disperse the light.<\/p>\n

The bundled metal shells arrayed in Kyung Youl Yoon\u2019s Cubic Inceptions<\/i> paintings are metaphors for today\u2019s concerns whether it is global climate change or materialistic goods. Likewise, Chuck Davidson\u2019s discarded pieces of urban life are reassembled constructions reflecting our own contrasting relationships.<\/p>\n

Gwang Hee Jeong and Ham Sup begin by transforming hanji, traditional Korean handmade paper, from its original state by re-assembling the paper into a heavily textured support for their paintings. Ham collectively brings an East-West synthesis into his abstraction, while Jeong\u2019s practice brings traditional calligraphy in concert with abstraction into one telling moment.<\/p>\n

Confluence<\/i>\u00a0at\u00a0 The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery,\u00a0417 Lafayette Street, 7 floor<\/a>, NYC.\u00a0 Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm.\u00a0Confluence<\/i>\u00a0runs through December 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Robert Curcio Confluence is an unassuming yet poignant and sincere exhibition featuring Keith Kattner with seven American and Korean artists that are working in parallel only to converge at this moment of exhibition. The exhibit joins together a variety of cultures, memories and traditions with innovation to address underlying personal, artistic and world view … <\/p>\n

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