Daru Jung Hyang Kim
Blue Lagoon 3

Name: Blue Lagoon 3
Brand: Daru Jung Hyang Kim
Price: 3800 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This beautiful blue work on paper is part ofDaru Jung Hyang Kim’s Unfurled work. It integrates the two aspects of her aesthetic and sensibility into one composition. She merges culture and nature, merging East and West, the traditional and the contemporary to signify a traversing across time and space. While Jung Hyang Kim’s imagery is not necessarily Buddhist, it often depicts—among other subjects—lotus flowers that are naturalistic and abstract, checkered wheel shapes that recall dharma wheels and loose chains of usually small white circles that resemble necklaces or prayer beads. Dotted chains often extend across the work. The substance of Kim’s work is its lightness, fragility and buoyancy, qualities that approximate aspects of Buddhist philosophy. Kim’s circles—and her images are most often based on circles, variations of circles or shapes within circles—images of generation, regeneration and change. . She describes her work as “an unfurling,” a gradual revelation in constant renewal and eternal return. Daru Jung Hyang Kim studied at Seoul National University, receiving her Bachelors degree in 1977. She moved to New York that same year to study at Pratt Institute and received her Masters degree in 1980. Since then, she has been widely exhibited in the United States and Korea, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, the Phillips Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, and the BenShahn Galleries in New Jersey. Daru's exhibitions have been reviewed in numerous publications including, the New York Times, Art in America, Art Asia Pacific, Asia Times,Art in Culture, Wolgan Misool, Arts Gazette, Space Magazine, New York Sun, Buffalo News, Golf Herald, Business Week and numerous local newspapers, radio and television. Daru was the winner of MTA Arts for Transit - Jamaica Line (Crescent Street Station). This project was completed in May 2007, and is a permanent installation. In 2011, Daru completed three monumental public art works in Korea for the LIG Insurance company. Most recently, she completed a major commissions for NYU Langone Medical Center, including a 12 ‘ x 20’ glass work for the lobby and a 12’ x 24’ outdoor mosaic. Additionally, her work is owned by many major corporations, private collectors and museums.

Creator:

Daru Jung Hyang Kim (American, Korean)

Dimensions:

Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)

Medium:

Paper,Mixed Media

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-

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