Kyungmi Shin’s exhibition here, “Monsters, Vases and the Priest,” features twelve new paintings that ruminate on time, mythology, and the legacies of colonialism. Shin’s collage-like, Photorealisti…
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.