Butterflies Will Make You Blind

Cindy Ji Hye Kim

Butterflies Will Make You Blind, 2018213.36 x 162.56cmSign in to view price
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oil, acrylic, ink, graphite and oil pastel on canvasFrançois Ghebaly
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This striking black and white artwork features a bold, geometric composition with a prominent fan-like shape in the center, surrounded by a swirling, organic pattern of abstract shapes and lines. The overall effect is one of a striking interplay between angular and curvilinear elements, with the central fan-like form creating a sense of movement and dynamism against the darker, more textural background. The artist's use of high-contrast monochrome tones and intricate, detailed patterning suggests a strong emphasis on the visual and formal qualities of the work, inviting the viewer to explore the interplay of shapes, textures, and visual rhythms. The work's enigmatic, symbolic subject matter and the artist's distinctive visual style speak to a contemporary, conceptual approach to artmaking. ...

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Cindy Ji Hye Kim
Artist
Cindy Ji Hye Kim
B.1990, South Korean

Cindy Ji Hye Kim is a Canadian-Korean painter, who concocts disturbing domestic scenes. In her signature grayscale palette, Kim works with a mixture of oils, acrylics, inks and graphite to create her large-scale works. She has developed a host of three recurring characters within her paintings; Mister Capital, Madam Earth and schoolgirl, these figures undergo and inflict violent acts in the supposed comfort of the home. Mutant SPAM tins cause havoc, rats run riot or ironing chords contort and maim the female figures as they undergo their domestic errands. The horror that unfolds between these stereotypical markers of patriarchy, domesticity and capitalism speaks to the infiltration of these forces within our daily lives. Building on her background in animation and illustration, these tableaux are delivered in a cartoonlike register, cropped awkwardly like strips within a comic, or freeze frames within a film. Kim has spoken about the subversive capacity of cartoon imagery, and its ability to really push the limits of the grotesque in a way that ‘fine art’ media cannot. This graphic approach links her work to artists such as Roy Lichenstein, or Tala Madani and Ebecho Muslimova, who similarly mobilise illustrative registers to deftly examine the restrictions placed upon women’s bodies. Simultaneously magnetic and repulsive, Kim’s paintings demand the viewer’s attention. ...

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Sorrow or Satire
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Sorrow or Satire, 2021
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Capita: The Face and Its Name
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Capita: The Face and Its Name, 2021
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The Wailing
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Crux Patriarch: A Soliloquist with an Audience of One
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Kokdu #2
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Kokdu #3
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Kokdu #3, 2023
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Kokdu #4
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François Ghebaly
Gallery
François Ghebaly
Los Angeles, New York City

Since 2009, François Ghebaly has presented an innovative, eclectic program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. With a history of identifying and championing diverse voices and emerging talent, the gallery’s roster has grown to include 27 artists and 2 artist estates, ranging from early career, such as Sharif Farrag and Ludovic Nkoth, to mid-career, like Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Kelly Akashi, Farah Al Qasimi, and Genesis Belanger, to well established, including Sayre Gomez, Kathleen Ryan, Neïl Beloufa and Candice Lin as well as underground legends, like Patrick Jackson and Mike Kuchar. The gallery advances the reach of its artists’ visions by publishing exhibition catalogues and producing artist editions. Located since 2013 in a 12,000 square foot warehouse space in Downtown Los Angeles, the gallery is a mainstay of the burgeoning Arts District community, and recently expanded to New York's Lower East Side. François Ghebaly’s program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and to fostering the progressive, boundary-pushing practices of its artists. ...

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