Return , oil on canvas 210cm x170cm 2009



spring 2,   digiatl print  acrilic  130cm x 162 cm 2002



twenty shadows,  oil on canvas 53cm x 45.5cm  2008

It is certain that we live in an age of uncertainty which needed for more living, more thinking, and more intervening than some time, and also in an age of lust which desire of capital captures us at all sphere of daily life. This age has made human being to be "ordinariness" according to combining with weakness of mankind, standardization of their dream and vision, temptation of consumption, endowment of qualification, order of grade of rank, power spirit and display of their power, establishment of truth through ordering system, and also made a well-prepared individual to be a useful being in a society at the least.

They obey the society, and how to threaten individual has contributed to their obedience. We could call such person following general reference of a given-culture a healthy and ordinary neighborhood. On the contrary, we can acknowledge that such person who display a shortage of skill to perform a specific job and function without some qualification and ability and who do not meet with a specific standard could be a mad man or a alien.

Those who ousted from a well-prepared individual could be controlled and manipulated
by power, rule, minor shame as like "You should know your dishonor." in proper form in which a group want to do. The weakness that is presented from such controlling will be a reason they are kicked out from a social boundary to which they belong. In addition, they have some risk to acknowledge what they recognize the fact by themselves in advance as a self-destructive behavior.


Li Set byul


Bachelor - The Dual Body, 2003.
Perspex, steel, water, book, water pump, light. 194 x 110 x 65 cm.


Ki-bong Rhee



Daeyong Byun is an excellent fable teller. His continuous "animal-human" motif is to suggest a true picture of society in a metaphorical way. We can approach his "animal-human" in two ways. One is "animalization of humans" and the other is "humanization of animals." The former reveals the process of humans becoming animals by letting human values in life, such as ethics toward others, be collapsed in the capitalistic system of exchange. The latter discloses the reality that the nature is subordinated to the culture by having been destroyed and all the worse possessed violently by the culture. -  Man Seok Kim




'lotus zone of zero', made with a steel structure and cables




The site specific installation Lotus: Zone of Zero, 2008, is composed of approximately two thousand lanterns, in the shape of lotus flowers, expanding outward upon a circular structural space, against a background of Tibetan, Gregorian and Islamic chants, and was specifically conceived for the Rotunda of the Raverstein Gallery. This installation is an invitation to a journey of discovery in which the artist provides space and time where the audience observes the differences and similarities of cultural, religious, and political awareness, and which, above and beyond its aesthetic qualities, is a call for peace, love and understanding amongst human beings.


Soo Ja kim



COLLABORATION WITH DAILY PROJECT mixed media 2006 / 2008
REAL DEAD SLEEP WALKER FRIENDS felt monster. 2008

Sleep Walker



Installation shot (clockwise from far L): "Depot" (To-do list found in a shopping cart at Home Depot, fabric, gold thread), "Shirt" (replica of a shirt I'd wear to my office job), "Two shirts" (one from a grocery bag, one from a bank check), "The work of memory" (color copies of a single image of flowers mounted on foam board, wood), "Untitled (carpet)" (oriental carpet from a NJ mall, given to me by my parents, shredded tax documents, receipts, grocery bags, staples), All 2006-07



"Home improvements", 35" x 37" x 6", Graph paper, house paint, trash bag, plastic bag, cardboard, receipts, envelopes, 2007

"Clothing inventory--under 2" tall", Variable dimensions, Printer paper, color (pencil, pen, watercolor), pins, 2006; My wardrobe while living abroad, each item is made to scale 2" or smaller. The piece ended when I packed up my suitcase to leave.




"The road less travelled", My worn shoes, house paints, boat compasses, 2007


Sandra Eula Lee


Common Sense_2008_mixed media_6.4x85.8cm



Chair-do_2007_mixed media_44x50x87cm



Iron Chair X_86.8x42x50cm_ABS plastic, stainless steel_2006



Masked Citizen 2006


Deller hon Dainy, 2007   Plastic, pencil 80 x 50 x 45 cm



'I love you’, 2007  Plaster, pencil , 245 x 55 x 60 cm



29 november - 28 december 2007 arario gallery



Murder Case, 2007, Pencil and Watercolor on Paper, 38.5 x 53.5cm


Mother's Sacrifice, 2007, Pencil and Watercolor on Paper, 38.5 x 53.5cm

Various aspects of contemporary art have brought the new perspective on drawing that was once considered as a mere sketch. Drawing is now perceived as a media that can reveal artist’s original sentiment, liberating artists from oppressive perfection as an artwork of other media such as painting. However, there is nothing like open opportunity that does not assure anything. In front of the scribbled drawing, we can only nod and accept. doART Gallery presents drawing works of Ungpil Byen, famous for his oil paintings with surface-filling enlarged feature of the face, for first time, and would like to share his candor explanation on his drawing works.

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LEE BUL "EVERY NEW SHADOW"
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain PARIS
November 16, 2007 to January 27, 2008



Lee Bul, one of the leading Korean artists of her generation, will present an ambitious new sculptural installation at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Variously suspended in mid-air or anchored to the floor, the sculptures constitute a singular environment that engages with the surrounding Jean Nouvel architecture, inhabiting and elaborating on its physical and conceptual frameworks. Complex and sensuous, the artist's installation manifests the disintegration of utopian aspirations that continue to haunt the collective imagination in a darkly seductive space of glittering ruins and vestiges.

Lee Bul