Pigment Spells: Solo exhibition by Lucy Kim

Opening reception: May 15 from 6 - 8pm 

Praise Shadows is honored to announce Pigment Spells, Lucy Kim’s first
commercial gallery solo exhibition in the Boston area. A celebrated artist, educator, and researcher, Kim has developed a suite of powerful new sculptural paintings that packs an informational and visual punch. Ranging in size from diminutive to large, the paintings emphasize hybridity while integrating Op art ideas with low relief forms cast from organic, familiar shapes – such as corn, peanuts, hands, teeth, the beach –
as a way to push the retinal aspect of the work that Kim is known for as it pertains to vision, appearance, and identity. 

Kim’s sculptural paintings are created by applying oil paint onto resin casts of surfaces, objects, and people. This work layers different ways that visual information presents itself – from sculptural relief to painted illusion – to create a calibrated dissonance. The evolution of this process began when Kim was contending with photography’s domineering authority over visual culture, specifically the role that it plays, and has played, in structuring vision. But rather than use photography directly, she opted to employ mold-making and casting as photography’s extremely tactile, full contact surrogate.

Read more about the exhibition here.