▲ East Side Story(이스트 사이드 스토리)16-B04, 72.7×60.6㎝ Oil on canvas, 2016

I have mentioned that the taste is deeper and deeper when bitterness meets sweetness. This artist evokes the melodious world of imagination through the houses that draw our memory, by means of the magic of color by deformation, and the brush as a ‘magic stick.’

▲ East Side Story J-07, 40.9.1×31.8㎝ Oil on canvas, 2016

Through the artist’s own recipe, he gives good-looking and comfortable feeling. It is like a clean aftertaste, not excessively oily.

▲ East Side Story J-08, 90.9×60.6㎝ Oil on canvas, 2016

It is not an easy painting process, although it looks comfortable. In that, there is the artist’s only true caliber that has become completed through long-time accumulated inner-ability, via trial-and-error.

▲ 2015년 정년퇴임기념전(후쿠오카 미조에 갤러리)

Thus, many people feel happiness and consolation of their spirit through Kim Myung-Sik’s(서양화가 김명식,김명식 작가,キムミョンシク,KIM MYUNG SIK,金明植,김명식 화백,김명식 교수)works, regardless of their origin in East or West.

△Cheolmin Song(송철민)/Curator, Zien Arts