Seungchun Lim
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Korean artist Seungchun Lim’s creepy sculptures capture a very distinct feeling of alienation, exclusion, and oppressive loneliness that seems endemic to our current global civilization.
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Hyperrealistic self-portrait by Hyung Koo Kang
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Korean contemporary artist Hyung Koo Kang is gaining prominence for his dramatic large-scale portraits of celebrities such as Andy Warhol, but his self-portraits are the ones that really get me. Viewed as snapshots of his artistic growth, it is hard to escape the irony that these self-portraits are also the result of a creative rut: [...]
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Spunky Zoe
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Crap, Korean artist Spunky Zoe’s surreal, anatomically mashed-up images are unnerving but absolutely captivating.
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Incredible recycled tire sculptures by Yong Ho Ji
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Phwoar! Can you believe Korean-born sculptor Yong Ho Ji creates incredibly detailed human, monster and animal figures using layers of purely recycled vehicle tyres? The detail perplexes me.
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Layered paper sculptures by Cheong-ah Hwang
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While most of us can successfully fold a paper airplane correctly, and a small percentage of overachievers can actually make an origami swan, Korean artist Cheong-ah Hwang is literally taking paper art to the next level.
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Ji Yong-Ho
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If you happen to be in Busan, Korea, go check out some of Ji Yong-Ho’s amazing animal sculptures made from old tires.
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Acquiring Signal by David Choong Lee
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Korean-born, San Francisco-based artist David Choong Lee has an amazing show up at the LeBasse Projects in Los Angeles. The show features a wall installation of more that 400 pieces as well as sculptures and paintings that deal with urban life and youth culture.
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Body art by Kim Joon
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Korean artist Kim Joon takes body art to a whole new level using his subjects as a creative, sprawling, slightly flawed (hey, we’re only human) canvas on which to create hi vibrant, colourful, and dynamic artworks.
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Minjae Lee
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Nineteen year-old self-taught Korean artist Minjae Lee creates the most luminous, eye-popping illustrations. They are intricate yet surprisingly accessible, the daring splashes of messily-applied colour accentuating the strong lines that characterize her portrait work in particular.
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