Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.
Alex Paik
Alex Paik is an artist, community builder, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles. Paik is Founder and Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces and serves on the Steering Committee at GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals. You can follow him on Instagram at @alexpaik.
Must Asian Americans Always Be Seen in Relation to One Another?
Scratching at the Moon hones in on a loose network of artists that have known each other for decades in Los Angeles.
Guimi You Finds the Poetic Possibilities of Paint
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The Poetry of Place in Teresa Baker’s Art
Baker’s art exudes the deep and spiritual connection to nature that she has gained from her Mandan/Hidatsa family.
Trương Cong Tung Sees History in a Gourd
Trương Cong Tung’s art is a meditation on the complex interdependent variables that constitute a diasporic experience, one that offers no easy or concrete answers.
An Artist’s Gift of Care
Artist Soo Kim’s latest series is about the act of arranging, about the impulse to create something with our hands for ourselves and for others.
Quiet Paintings at a Time of Sensory Overload
Where Kim Mikyung’s process suggests an obsessive burrowing into the self, Kim Hyung-dae casts his gaze upward and outward into the sky.
When Asian-American Artists Are Unburdened by Identity
Stanford’s Asian American Art Initiative allows for a range of expression not usually granted to Asian-American artists — something especially refreshing in this rare moment of visibility.