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Pigment Spells: Solo exhibition by Lucy Kim

Past exhibition
15 May - 27 June 2025
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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.

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Installation Views
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Dan Watkins Photography
Works
  • Lucy Kim Ichthysopsis 1, 2025
    Lucy Kim
    Ichthysopsis 1, 2025
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  • Lucy Kim Place. (Green/Red), 2025
    Lucy Kim
    Place. (Green/Red), 2025
  • Lucy Kim Sun Glitter (Blue Green/White), 2025
    Lucy Kim
    Sun Glitter (Blue Green/White), 2025
  • Lucy Kim Kernel Distortion 1, 2025
    Lucy Kim
    Kernel Distortion 1, 2025
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  • Lucy Kim Pareidolia (Black/White) 1, 2025
    Lucy Kim
    Pareidolia (Black/White) 1, 2025
  • Lucy Kim Peanuts (Red/Black), 2025
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    Peanuts (Red/Black), 2025
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  • Lucy Kim Peanuts - Stretched (Red/Black), 2025
    Lucy Kim
    Peanuts - Stretched (Red/Black), 2025
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  • Lucy Kim Peanuts (Green/Black), 2025
    Lucy Kim
    Peanuts (Green/Black), 2025
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Videos
  • Artist Talk: Lucy Kim & Mitra Abbaspour

    Artist Talk: Lucy Kim & Mitra Abbaspour

    Praise Shadows Art Gallery is pleased to present Lucy Kim's artist talk with Mitra Abbaspour, Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at Harvard Art Museums. This artist talk... Read more
Press
  • Artist Lucy Kim uses bacteria, resin, and sand to challenge visual perception

    WCVB, June 19, 2025
  • The goal of this artist: fool the eye and scramble assumptions

    Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, April 28, 2025
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