Koh Byoung Ok: G Sculpture Show

To be exhibited at SolwayJones, Los Angeles

May 22 – June 26, 2010

Naked Coke III, 2010,  polished coke cans, dimensions variable

Koh Byoung Ok: G Sculpture Show opens Saturday May 22nd, with a reception for the artist from 6 – 9 pm.  The exhibition continues through June 26, 2010.

Continuing the artist’s use of musical scales for exhibition titles and as his archive of past solo shows since 2001, Koh Byoung Ok: G Sculpture Show brings together a group of new and recent sculptures by this Korean born Los Angeles based artist.  G Sculpture Show, his first solo presentation with SolwayJones, will include several works that explore issues of duration, gravity, balance, and volume.  Koh’s ephemeral sculptures float and dance back in forth somewhere between performance, conceptual and minimal art humorously bridging with twists of absurdity and disbelief.

In the artist’s own words, “I approach art as the articulation and encounter of the unexpected, the mundane, and the temporal.  I contemplate the processes and objects of daily life that surround us and define our lives, but that often are seen as small and insignificant due to their commonplace—a snail inching its way along the ground, a person drinking water, a clock ticking, the wrinkles on your fingers after a bath, strands of hair lifted by a breeze.  I isolate these actions and objects, strip them down to their inner energy, put into conversation seemingly unrelated forces, and leave them for viewers to do as they will.  I see my practice as a type of performance art that captures a moment in an encounter, one that I transform and that takes on other articulations in my absence.  I am interested in the meaningless.“

Koh Byoung Ok works were included in the group exhibition Instruments at SolwayJones in 2009.

Recent exhibitions include Near West, Makii Masaru Fine Art, Tokyo, 2008, Humor Us, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008, E Sculpture Show, The Substation, Singapore 2007, Exquisite Crisis And Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute of New York University, New York, 2006, 2002 Gwangju Biennial, Korea.