HONG KONG.- Kiang Malingue announced that Kyung-Me's drawing The Prostration (2022) has been acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Included in the exhibition “Sister” at Bureau, New York in 2022, the meticulously composed tripartite drawing shows three distinct perspectives of a solemn, haunting incident—the ascension of a fall—proposing a way through which the experience of a triptych altarpiece could be associated with that of a highly symmetrical trompe-l'œil.
Kyung-Me (b. 1991, lives and works in New York, NY) has since 2015 been creating intricate works on paper that combine and subvert artistic traditions such as handscroll or emakimono, as well as Western technical drawing by emphasising the labyrinthine and psychological aspects of architectural environments. For the exhibition "The House in the Trees" at Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong in 2023, Kyung-Me presented a series of drawings that deals with haunting symmetries, uroboric infinities, and embedded narratives composed of designs, furniture pieces and curios from different cultures and times, considering the potential of mise-en-abyme structures in relation to the ways in which individuals form their own psychic prisons.
Kyung-Me is an artist based in New York. Her work explores architectures of the subconscious and how images, objects and memory are intertwined in order to render complex and spiritual spaces. Working predominantly in ink, Kyung-Me creates drawings of labyrinthine spaces that trace the seductive and sinister nature of entrapment structures. She is interested in the invisible architecture of entrapment—from the societal and familial, to the psychological and spiritual.
Kyung-Me received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2018. Her work has been collected by the Whitney Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Magasin III. Recent exhibitions include: “The House in the Trees”, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2023); “Sister”, Bureau, New York, NY (2022); “Introverse: Allegory Today”, 80WSE, New York, NY (2022); “Liminal Spaces”, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2019; “Coniunctio” with Harry Gould Harvey IV, Bureau, New York, NY (2019); “Poor Thing” with Sydney Shen, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn (2018); “Copy Kitty”, Selena Gallery, Brooklyn (2017); and “Bad Korean”, 17 Essex Gallery, New York, (2016).
She is the author of two books, Copy Kitty (2020), published by 2dCloud and Bad Korean (2016), published by Spaceface Books. She also teaches undergraduate and graduate students at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.
