Miyoung LEE’s Top Picks from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room 2023
The Vice Chair of the Whitney Museum chooses five pieces from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room including colourful works by Mit Jai Inn, Trevor Shimizu and Rosha Yaghmai
The Vice Chair of the Whitney Museum chooses five pieces from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room including colourful works by Mit Jai Inn, Trevor Shimizu and Rosha Yaghmai
MIT JAI INN
Loop 1, 2023
Oil on canvas, 487 cm x 35 cm
Presented by Silverlens Gallery
“Using colorful strips of canvas, Mit continues to expand what the possibilities of painting can be. Not only does he create beautiful works of art, he is politically and socially engaged with his local community, a revered elder statesperson of the Thai art world.”
TREVOR SHIMIZU
Summer 2023 (Wildflowers 1), 2023
Oil on canvas, 137 cm x 170 cm
Presented by Misako & Rosen
“These gorgeous landscapes inspired by the environs of where he is or once was, cannot help but make you think of Monet. What a far cry this is from his earlier work where he questioned his Asian-American identity in an almost cartoon-like manner.”
ROSHA YAGHMAI
Afterimage, Canyons, 2023
Acrylic and ink on organza and cotton, artist’s frame
152 cm x 109 cm x 7 cm
Presented by Commonwealth and Council
“A digital image does not do this work justice so please take the time and go visit the work in the real. The paint absorbed by layers of organza creates an ephemeral yet sculptural quality. The title points towards a landscape—abstracted, beautiful and mysterious!”
SEUNDJA RHEE
A Mother I Remember, 1962
Oil on canvas, 130 cm x 195 cm
Presented by Gallery Hyundai
“Seundja Rhee is a complete discovery for me. She is described as the ‘first [Korean] female artist who started her artistic career in Paris… after WWII’. I just admire any woman of that period carving her own path. What courage it must have taken! The piece is exquisite, too!”
MIRE LEE
Surface with many holes: concrete nets IV, 2022
Latex, burlap jute, pigmented silicone oil, and concrete
59.7 cm x 21.6 cm
Presented by Tina Kim Gallery
“Mire is another Korean artist blazing her own path. I had the pleasure of seeing her amazing work currently on view at the New Museum in NYC. I can confidently say that no one is doing anything like Mire. She is a unique voice in today’s art world.”
About Miyoung LEE
Miyoung LEE currently serves as Vice Chair of the Whitney Museum of America. She is also on the Acquisition Committee of the Studio Museum of Harlem. Her contemporary art collection is eclectic with an emphasis on emerging artists and women. She resides in New York.
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