
Sunday Painting 1/6/16
2016
Sunday Painting 1/6/16 belongs to Byron Kim's long-running series of intimate sky studies, begun in 2001 and now numbering in the hundreds. Each week, Kim turns his gaze upward and captures what he observes on a uniform square canvas, recording not only the shifting blues and grays of the atmosphere but also a brief handwritten notation directly on the surface, noting the time, place, and whatever thought or detail the moment holds. The result is something at once rigorously formal and disarmingly personal, a painting that operates as both a minimalist object and a private journal entry. This 2016 example carries that characteristic duality with quiet authority, its field of sky punctuated by the artist's own script in a way that makes the act of looking inseparable from the act of remembering. Kim, born in 1961 and based in the United States, has built a critically recognized practice around works that occupy the threshold between abstraction and representation. The Sunday Paintings are among his most sustained and beloved bodies of work, exhibiting at venues including James Cohan in New York, Kukje Gallery in Seoul, the Seoul Museum of Art, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, among many others. His work has also appeared in major institutional surveys such as the Whitney Museum of American Art's Human Interest and the Sharjah Biennial. Generously donated by the artist and Kukje Gallery for the Para Site Benefit Auction, this work is estimated between HK$80,000 and HK$120,000. Signed by the artist, it arrives unframed, allowing the collector to consider presentation afresh. For those drawn to painting that finds the monumental in the everyday, Sunday Painting 1/6/16 is a rare opportunity to acquire a work from one of contemporary art's most quietly transformative ongoing projects.
- Medium
- Acrylic and pen on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Para Site Benefit Auction
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