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BRYCE WOLKOWITZ TO SHOW RECENT WORKS OF NOH, SANG-KYOON

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NEW YORK CITY — Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring new works by Noh Sang-Kyoon through December 4.

Covered in thousands of sequins that he threads together by hand, the sculptures and canvases of Korean artist Noh Sang-Kyoon trace their origins to both the ordinary and the spiritual.

In “What Are You Looking For,” Noh Sang-Kyoon challenges the viewer with the depth and complexity of his decorative, popular medium and patient, repetitive technique. His process elevates everyday objects to the meditative realm, an act performed subtly and startlingly.

By resurfacing found forms, the artist narrows the gap between extremes: the Buddha, a majestic symbol of religious power, and the mannequin, a vapid shell of commercial usage.

Over time, the artist’s use of the sequins has grown more layered and multidimensional. If in his early fish series the shiny disks worked to reference the appearance of scales, in his later works the conceptual and the spiritual are increasingly juxtaposed with the material and the imaginary world.

Noh Sang-Kyoon was born in 1958 in Nonsan, Korea. He received a bachelor’s degree in painting at the Seoul National University and later studied in New York, where he received his master’s in paintings from Pratt Institute. In 1999, he was selected to represent Korea at the 49th Venice Biennale where he gained international attention. His work has been exhibited in Korea, Japan, China, France, England, Germany, and the United States. This is his second solo exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.

 The gallery is at 601 West 26th Street, Suite 1240. For information, 212-243-8830 or www.brycewolkowitz.com.