Pulp is pleased to announce a Solo Exhibition of paintings by Justin Kim (b.1971). Artist Reception Saturday, October 15th from 12-2pm. The exhibition will run from Oct. 8th - Oct. 30th.
“My work explores perception and memory - specifically how information received is fragmented and elusive, yet made whole through our bodies, where our experience of the world oscillates between dissolution and synthesis. Ultimately, I want the images to speak to a broad audience, using familiar terms to challenge our assumed relationship to the world.
“The subject of my work is landscape; sites and spaces that resonate on a personal, aesthetic, and emotional level. The raw materials for these include reference photos, sketches, color swatches, written descriptions – anything I can use to reassemble and reconstitute the experience.”
My materials include water based painting and drawing media. These allow me to experiment with the descriptive means: contour, shape, wash, opacity, pattern, and so on. Forms vary within the same piece: fluid to concrete, schematic to solid, rough to refined. Disparate categories are reconciled: real vs. contrived, drawing vs. painting, ironic vs. sincere, harmonious vs. dissonant. Despite this oscillation between dissolution and synthesis, the body of the viewer is reaffirmed, absorbing fragments and knitting them into a comprehensive vision.
Born in Hartford, CT, Justin Kim received a B.A. from Yale and an MFA from the American University in Washington, D.C.
Kim has exhibited across the Northeast including: Denise Bibro, Brenda Taylor, EFA, and Bowery Gallery in New York City; and Smith College and Montserrat College of Art. Recent residencies include, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, The Jentel Foundation, and The Studios at Mass MoCA. He is currently based at The Elizabeth Foundation in New York. Kim has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, Smith, UMass, and Deep Springs College in California.
DAVID HORNUNG… in our front room.
“My involvement with the cyanotype process began in the summer of 2014 while I was teaching a collage workshop at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado. A fellow instructor working in the next studio incorporated cyanotype into her experimental drawing curriculum. Her students placed objects and film negatives on photo sensitized paper for brief exposures to the Colorado sun. As I watched them work, it occurred to me that one could also make cyanotype prints with paper cutouts. I proceeded to cut images of figures, buildings, plants, and animals out of opaque and translucent paper and organized them on clear acetate. I was essentially constructing photo negatives with scissors and tape.
“In 2019, I began to make “cyanotype collages” by cutting up misprinted cyanotypes I had accumulated over the previous four years and reassembling them into new compositions. This approach reminded me of quiltmakers who recycle scraps of printed fabric to construct fresh compositions. Indeed, my interest in collage parallels a long fascination with traditional quilts, especially those featuring pictorial appliqué. Making these collages, I felt connected to those pictorial quiltmakers.”
David Hornung is a painter and collage artist whose work has been widely exhibited. He is the author of Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers (Laurence King Pub Ltd.). This textbook, currently in its third edition, has been translated into six languages and is used in art schools and private studios around the world. David has held professorships at Indiana University, Skidmore College, The Rhode Island School of Design and Adelphi University.
Hornung is a painter and collage artist who has exhibited widely. He creates cyanotype collages inspired by quilt makers who recycle scraps of printed fabric to construct new compositions. Hornung is the author of Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers (Laurence King Pub Ltd), currently inits third edition.