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Soo Kim
The Corners of the Sea
January 15 - February 27, 2010

The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition of Los Angeles artist Soo Kim, which is also her premier exhibition on the East Coast. Kim's artistic practice blends the making of photographs with the critical interpretation of images on a broader level. Recent bodies of work employ the techniques of cutting and layering prints, introducing areas of absence or disruption to address the issues of photographic transparency and the immediate consumption of images. Kim believes that the lengthy process required to create her photographs infuses them with a "slowness" that finds its counterpart in the amount of time it takes the viewer to read them.

Her new body of work, The Corners of the Sea, combines photographic portraits and landscapes to consider different degrees of stillness and action that can occupy an image. The images are each cut and therefore unique and are presented sandwiched between plexiglass and floating slightly away from the wall. The portraits are photographed to convey a sense of intimacy, quiet, and stillness. Cut into the portraits are 'actions' taken from comic books - in the images of the woman, various types of water falling or filling in take up the space of the photograph. Urban landscapes of Reykjavik, Iceland, and Dubrovnik, Croatia are photographed to describe two different cities and ways of looking- one from a stationary position, while the other is taken by traveling along the wall that circumnavigates the city. Four images of the natural world record the slowness of nature, while the cuts in each photograph register a different speed. A diptych of a mountain is inscribed with a stylized forest and a landscape of a clearing in a forest in which the parts of the photograph where the sunlight hits the leaves and landscape have been cut out.

Soo Kim was in born South Korea in 1969 and moved to Los Angeles in 1980. After earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Riverside, she combined studies in critical writing, art and film at the California Institute of the Arts for her MFA. She has had three solo exhibitions with Sandroni Rey Gallery in Los Angeles and will be one of three artists including Catherine Opie and Jeff Chien Hsing Liao (who also shows with this gallery) in a show on urban panoramas opening at the J. Paul Getty Museum in February 2010. She has participated in group shows at Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, Vassar College, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the North Carolina Museum of Art and many others. Her work is featured in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Broad Foundation, the Ovitz Collection. For full information on biography and bibliography please consult our website.



SOO KIM
THE CORNERS OF THE SEA
JANUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Entrance:
Untitled (Gold woods), 2008
hand-cut chromogenic print, acrylic
26 x 26” framed
unique

Main gallery
East wall:
The angles of the sky, 2009
hand-cut chromogenic print
30 x 30”, 37 x 37” framed
unique

The corners of the sea, 2009
hand-cut chromogenic print
30 x 30”, 37 x 37” framed
unique

North wall:
So hard to beat, 2009
hand-cut chromogenic print
50 x 51”, 60 x 61” framed
unique

Teenage dreams, 2009
hand-cut chromogenic print
50 x 51”, 60 x 61” framed
unique diptych

You and your sister, 2009
two hand-cut chromogenic prints
40 x 40”, 48 x 48” framed
unique

Me and my brother, 2009
two hand-cut chromogenic prints
40 x 40”, 48 x 48” framed
unique

Driftless, 2009
hand-cut chromogenic print
30 x 30”, 37 x 37” framed
unique

Lavish, 2009
hand-cut chromogenic print
30 x 30”, 37 x 37” framed
unique

Fall, 2009
hand-cut chromogenic print
30 x 30”, 37 x 37” framed
unique

South wall
(He sighs), 2009
two hand-cut chromogenic prints
30 x 30”, 36 x 36” framed
unique

(They walk a while in silence), 2009
two hand-cut chromogenic prints
30 x 30”, 36 x 36” framed
unique

(Falling suddenly to her knees), 2009
two hand-cut chromogenic prints
30 x 30”, 36 x 36” framed
unique





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