Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery
621 West 27th Street, ground floor, 212-255-0979
Chelsea
April 27 - May 26, 2007
Reception: Friday, April 27, 6 - 8 PM
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Our Endless Numbered Days is a darker, more introspective step into the world of a girl where ominous black birds, bears and horses loom and languish as harbingers of some kind of doom. These silhouettes, outlines of our actual selves, cause tumult and discomposure in the mind of the protagonist. But it may be that this chaos is the appropriate provocation for change, forward momentum, and even hope.
Working on canvas, Hong continues to use a flat painterly style. Large areas of negative space, left raw and unfinished, push up against smaller moments of obsession represented in the details of embroidery. Cut pieces of canvas add to the texture and feeling of these pieces, creating subtle dimension and depth. In a series of smaller untitled paintings, Hong uses more abstract imagery – a shadowy representation of transition and movement.