Wook-kyung Choi: Kukje Gallery, Seoul

My experiences, as a woman and a painter, serve as a daily source for the creative inspiration necessary for my work. My paintings are collaged bits of time from my past and present experiences. Each work has its own life as the forms grow and I convey my feelings into a visual language. My paintings are about my life but I am not simply telling stories. I am trying to express, visually, my experience of the moment lived. I hope to share, to communicate, and to create an empathy for the experience.  

—Wook-kyung Choi

Kukje Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Wook-kyung Choi (1940-1985), an artist known for her bold abstract paintings and works on paper whose practice signaled a timely intercultural exchange between the United States and Korea. This inaugural show of Wook-kyung Choi’s work at Kukje Gallery’s newly renovated K1 building marks the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery following shows in 2016 and 2005. On view from June 18 through July 31, 2020, and covering the two exhibition spaces on the ground floor of the building, the exhibition provides an opportunity to survey Choi’s groundbreaking experimentation evident in her paintings and collages, with respect to her black and white ink drawings produced from the 1960s through 1975.