Artist Reception Thursday, July 25th 5-8 pm
in conjunction with CHELSEA ART WALK 2013
Kips Gallery
511 West 25th Street #207
New York, New York 10001
USA
The painting that launches Du Nam Choi’s show is Untitled from 2009, in which horizontal bands of the most delicious colors streak over the top of a white base. Is there any greater delight for us viewers than to trace our eyes over liquid brushstrokes of plum, persimmon, and cobalt (plus the occasional visual treat of two colors per stroke)? Every luscious stroke makes a left to right journey. Some strokes are short and definitive, others wavering and languorous, and a few uncertain and truant. The richness of color makes me nostalgic for Morris Louis and Clyfford Still, but Du Nam’s pictures more closely evoke an earlier era. Look at the colored roadway in Kandinsky’s Autumn in Bavaria for a parallel, or at the flowing sky in Munch’s The Scream, if that passage can properly be separated from the rest of the picture.