Kyungmi Shin’s Monsters, Vases and The Priest at Sperone Westwater is an act of ceremony. Moving between timelines, the artist has collapsed the space of images through painting to form an important site for contemplation; for gathering distant experiences and ushering them into the present. In understanding her family lineage she avoids self-mythologizing and instead, more broadly, examines the beauty and dignity of the Asian experience.
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In Oscar’s portraiture, the experience is encrypted, withheld, intimate, kept private between the artist and the subject. It is elusive when it needs to be, inviting when it needs to be. It is a language of survival that Oscar has developed to mine and understand his own labor, and reflect the visage of the spectator back at them through mirrors. It holds an account, while finding moments of ceremony for communities and people that need it—deserve it.
As part of their “True Mirror” project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Dexter Sinister has set up a mirror press office at the Commander’s Room of the 7th…