▲ East Side Story(이스트 사이드 스토리)18-JA02, 72.7×60.6㎝ Oil on canvas, 2018

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

▲ East Side17-MA07, 259.1×193.9㎝ Oil on canvas, 2017

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. 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,Andy Kim,金明植,김명식 화백,김명식 교수)works, regardless of their origin in East or West.

△Cheolmin Song(송철민)/Curator, Zien Arts

 

▲ ARTIST KIM MYUNG SIK(Artist Andy Kim) <사진=권동철>

 

◇KIM MYUNG-SIK

1950 Born in Seoul, Korea

1974 Dept of Fine Arts, Choong-Ang University in Seoul,Korea(B.F.A)

1981 Dept of Fine Arts, Choong-Ang University in Seoul,Korea(M.F.A)

2004 Long Island University Visiting Professo/New York

2005 Art Student League of New York/New York

2010 Kyushu Sankyo University Visiting Professo/Fukuoka Japan

△One Person Exhibitions

1984 Sinsegye Gallery (Seoul,Korea)

1988 Central Gallery (Chiba,Japan)

1991 Chung Jak Gallery (Seoul,Korea)

1992 Baek Song Gallery (Seoul,Korea)

1996 Neptuno Gallery (Madrid,Spain)

2001 Montserrat Galleries (New York.NY)

2003 Victoria Gallery (Sydney,Australia)

2003 Covan Galleries (Vancouver,Canada)

2004 Road Gallery (Glen Cove,New York)

2004 Bernard Gallery (New York.NY)

2004 The Last Picture Show (New Jersey)

2005 Xpose Gallery (New Jersey)

2006 Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami Florida)

2006 Yin Xiang Gallery (Hangzhou China)

2010 Artland Gallery (Marugame Japan)

2010 Gallery Hana (Tokyo Japan)

2012 Oishi Gallery (Fukuoka Japan)

2014 Roshkowska Gallery (New York USA) ect.

△Former professor Dept of Fine Arts Dong-A University Member of the National Artists Association in Korea.