Susan Swartz
Mark Tennant’s photorealistic paintings are renowned for their uncanny ability to capture small details of light and movement. Most of Tennant’s works are lit with a bright flash, giving the sense that his young subjects are the unsuspecting subjects of late-night Polaroid snapshots. His works are informed by the painting techniques of the Impressionists Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Tennant has taught museum copying at the Louvre and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His captivating paintings have been exhibited numerous times in the Salon d’Automne in Paris and...
Wonsook Kim arrived in America in 1972 and has since cultivated her practice of embracing a variety of media that includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. In her opinion, her artwork resembles prose and is suggestive of poetic entries in a symbolist or surrealist diary. It is through these virtual transcriptions that she engages her audience in mythmaking, storytelling, and folklore. A master of line, Kim complements her delicate imagery with composition and the observance of light. Figures and ground are thus often...
Wonsook Kim arrived in America in 1972 and has since cultivated her practice of embracing a variety of media that includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. In her opinion, her artwork resembles prose and is suggestive of poetic entries in a symbolist or surrealist diary. It is through these virtual transcriptions that she engages her audience in mythmaking, storytelling, and folklore. A master of line, Kim complements her delicate imagery with composition and the observance of light. Figures and ground are thus often...
Susan Swartz