Chunbum Park: Questioning

Duration: January 10 - 22, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, January 10, 6-8 pm

Location: Space 776, 37-39 Clinton St., New York, NY, 10002

Space776 New York is pleased to present Questioning, by Chunbum Park (B. 1991, South Korea), their first solo exhibition with the gallery organized by curator Isaac Aden.  The main locus of Park’s painting as culled from the title is to signal deeply personal matters of their identity and desire while contending with the cloistering cultural repression to remain on a sociologically straight path. Park's exhibition features feminine presenting paintings coupled with bouquets of flowers.  The feminine paintings represent an imagined idealization of the potential of Park’s identity.  Crossing over seems to be a subtly signaled and a recurring theme in their work.  While bouquets of flowers may signal different things within different communities, they are often given as gifts of friendship or romance, and they undoubtedly indicate an underlying sense of love.  Likewise, Park lovingly attends to the surface of their canvases.   Park’s paintings are at times so heavily impastoed they cause the mouth to water as if enjoying a peanut butter sandwich.  Other times Park makes use of thin and sensuous washes of amber glows. However, what remains constant is Parks questioning the possibilities one can present both inside and out of a painting. This dichotomy is perhaps most aptly signaled in their painting, “I Wanna Be Me”.

The opening reception will take place on Friday, January 10, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Space776. The exhibition will run from January 10th to January 22nd, 2025. Press members are encouraged to contact Space776 New York to arrange private viewings or interviews with the artist prior to the official opening. Visitors interested in attending the reception may RSVP via the gallery or Eventbrite.

Chunbum Park, is an artist and a writer from South Korea, working and living in the greater NYC area. They received their BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2020 and their MFA in Fine Arts Studio from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2022. Park currently runs the Emerging Whales Collective, where they interview other artists. Park is a staff writer for the New Visionary Magazine, and also contributes to other publications, including Art Spiel and Two Coats of Paint. 

Isaac Aden is a Curator and Art Critic. Aden is on the board of White Box. He was formerly the Chief Curator at the Jerome A Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center for Visual Arts. He has organized exhibitions at The Bronx Museum, The Laurie M Tisch Foundation, dOCUMENTA 13, White Box, Kassel Werkstadt, David Richard Gallery, Gallerie Rasch, Ulrike Petschel Gallerie, Ethan Cohen Gallery, SPRING/BREAK, Sotheby’s, The New York Public Library, and The World Trade Center.  Aden has been awarded Fellowships and Grants from the Kossak Foundation, Creative Capital, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the United States State Department. In addition to working as a gallery director of Ethan Cohen, Aden is an editor for the Italian art magazine XIBT, and a frequent contributor to numerous other publications.

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