Frey Norris Gallery
456 Geary St
415.346.7812
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Inkie Whang, An Old Breeze-Yellow Sea, Courtesy Frey Norris Gallery
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May 1, 2008 – June 1, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–7pm)
Sundays (11am–5pm)
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Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the dozen paintings on display at this Frey Norris show (Whang's first in the US), he renders quaint, rustic scenes — tree-lined ponds, fishing villages, and the like — into vaguely familiar, sometimes distorted impressions. His large canvases are washed in solid colors, with abstract images superimposed like distorted photocopies. The resulting scenes depict ghostly vestiges of nature and old-world living, dissipating under the digital gaze of the 21st century.
