Calvin Klein’s Seoul Surprise - Jean Shin
December 07, 2009Women's Wear Daily
Shin was commissioned to design one of her monumental installations that draws upon the women’s offerings... Read More 
Where I Work: Richard Tsao
November 01, 2009Art Asia Pacific
Tsao’s methods—spontaneous action, momentary deliberation and prolonged incubation—mean that any given work gestates for up to three years before the… Read More
Profile: Pouran Jinchi
October 01, 2009Canvas
Pouran Jinchi's profile by Ladan Akbarnia in the current issue of Canvas, the premier art and culture magazine published in Dubai. Read More
Painting with Paper Mates - IL Lee
August 07, 2009Pasatiempo (The Santa Fe New Mexican)
One of the most striking aspects of Il Lee's ballpoint drawings is how he manages to convey a great sense of depth using only one color applied to… Read More
Museums: The Actually Cool Guide – Pouran Jinchi
July 30, 2009Time Out New York
...Especially moving is Pouran Jinchi’s Tajvid Red, hand-copied ink on a paper scroll, faithful to the Koran in every way except that it’s missing… Read More
Iran Inside Out - Pouran Jinchi
July 23, 2009The New York Times
Often, though, inside-versus-outside is hard to discern at a glance. Almost all the artists here have a stake, in some way, in exploring what it… Read More
The Many Voices of Enlightment - Pouran Jinchi
June 12, 2009The New York Times
One, called “Prayer Stone 5,” is by Pouran Jinchi, an artist who was born in Iran and now lives in New York City. It consists of overlaid rubbings… Read More
Because Everyone Deserves a Trophy - Jean Shin
April 08, 2009The New York Times
Jean Shin: Common Threads at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is reviewed in The New York Times, April 8, 2009. Read More
Pouran Jinchi in Art Asia Pacific
March 05, 2009Art Asia Pacific
...the evolution of Jinchi's abstract syntax suggested a symbiosis between the artist's method and her minimalist format. A recurring principle of… Read More
Royal Taste in Art Put on Display - Pouran Jinchi
November 17, 2008The National, UAE
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of AbuDhabi, will open the door to the Royal Family's private art collection for the first time this… Read More
Nanoscale and Painting - Filipe Rocha da Silva
August 01, 2008Leonardo, MIT Press
Filipe Rocha da Silva creates very large paintings depicting extremely small, almost invisible figures. In "Nanoscale and Painting" he tries to… Read More
Lost in Transliteration - Pouran Jinchi
March 01, 2008Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art
...influenced by the abstract expressionists. Her works involve the subtraction of text from identified and identifiable sections that retains… Read More
IL LEE Ballpoint Drawings at the Queens Museum of Art
September 07, 2007The New York Times
A selection of drawings — striking indigo and black ink abstractions, all done exclusively in ballpoint pen, on paper and canvas — makes up this… Read More
A Few Good Pens - IL LEE
September 01, 2007ARTnews
For a quarter century, the South Korean-born artist has been coaxing massive webs of line from disposable ballpoint pens.... For his solo show… Read More
To See the World in Ballpoint Pen - IL LEE
August 10, 2007The New York Times
What makes this work, and others like it, so alluring is its unexpected suggestiveness. When Mr. Lee's drawings conjure before you a soft, densely… Read More
IL Lee - Queens Museum of Art
August 07, 2007The New Yorker
Hundreds of thousands of disposable ballpoint pens have passed through the Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s hands over the years, and he’s… Read More
‘No Border’: Zheng Xuewu Solo Exhibition
August 01, 2007Time Out Beijing
Zheng Xuewu is one of the most casually innovative artists in China. His current solo effort includes three separate series. A mind-boggling… Read More
The Mountain’s Hold
August 01, 2007Living Art Magazine
The mountainous physicality of Japan, Korea and China provides some level of explanation. Living and breathing amongst such magnificent features… Read More
Il Lee: Ballpoint Drawings - Queens Museum of Art
July 26, 2007Time Out New York
For the past several decades, the Korean-born artist has been fusing minimalist aesthetics and traditional Asian painting techniques into a series of… Read More
IL LEE: Ballpoint Drawings at Queens Museum of Art
July 19, 2007artnet
Large-format blue and black ink drawings, including a 50-foot installation by the Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist Read More
IL LEE: Ballpoint Abstractions at San Jose Museum of Art
July 07, 2007San Francisco Chronicle
I wish I had seen sooner the stirring show of abstractions by Korean-born New York artist Il Lee at the San Jose Museum of Art. It ends Sunday. More… Read More
IL LEE: Ballpoint Abstractions at San Jose Museum of Art
April 12, 2007San Jose Inside
For those of you who think creating modern art doesn’t require dedication, you should take a look at the exhibition of works by Korean artist Il Lee… Read More
Whirls Enough And Time, IL LEE does wonders with a humble ballpoint pen
April 12, 2007metroactive.com
Artist IL Lee doesn't need sable-hair brushes and hand-ground pigments. The Korean-born artist, who has lived and worked in New York since 1977,… Read More
Beauty in Ballpoint: Distinctive Doodles by Il Lee
April 01, 2007San Jose Mercury News
Lee has played with lines like a composer noodling away on a piano. After more than 20 years of such playing, he has expanded to complex symphonies… Read More
Jean Shin: TEXTile
March 01, 2007Art Asia Pacific
TEXTile (2006), the exhibition's centerpiece, is a 25-foot long interactive tapestry made from over 20,000 computer keycaps, transcribing e-mail… Read More
IL LEE: Ballpoint Abstractions (text from catalogue)
February 27, 2007IL LEE: Ballpoint Abstractions
The expressive inky line remains, but Lee’s use of ballpoint pen gives his art a freshness and originality that satisfies the avant-garde craving for… Read More
China’s Hottest Export: Contemporary Art
December 04, 2006Barron's
"The contemporary art world is much less Eurocentric and much more interested in finding new ideas, even as artists are becoming more international… Read More
IL Lee, Chun Kwang-Young and Lee Ufan: International Abstraction, Generational Trajectories
December 01, 2006Art AsiaPacific
Using the dark black and indigo inks of ballpoint pens, Il Lee builds up monumental form through repeated working over a particular space, with the… Read More
IL Lee at Art Projects International
October 01, 2006Art in America
There is an almost palpable liquidity in the dense, indigo heart of Il Lee’s recent production. Using common ballpoint pens, he locates a point or… Read More
Just what is it that makes Il Lee’s art so different, so appealing?
April 01, 2006Art in Culture
Lee's work can be approached from many directions. The inventiveness of the work suggests the avant-gardes of modernism while its refinement brings… Read More
IL LEE: Beyond the Minimal
April 01, 2006Art In Culture
Il Lee’s work also radiates a certain spirituality filtered through minimalist non-objectivity. In the pulse of its forms, it’s, chi perhaps, it… Read More
Art in America Review - Richard Tsao
October 01, 2005Art in America
For this show he deployed what has become a signature series of small, contemplative paintings saturated with intense color. With their relative… Read More
Review, Zheng Xuewu at API
September 14, 2005Art Asia Pacific
After achieving a surface of remarkable complexity, Zheng paints by hand his imagery, which usually occurs against a background of a single color.… Read More
Painters to Watch: Collage Education - Gwenn Thomas
April 03, 2005ARTnews
This artwork, which is called Flag (1993), as well as Thomas's subsequent works, is a clever confluence of painting's diametric modes: abstraction… Read More
Time Chapter: Chelsea - Jian-Jun Zhang
January 05, 2005Art AsiaPacific
Jian-Jun Zhang's exhibition Time Chapter at DTW Gallery (in collaboration with Art Projects International) is reviewed by Jonathan Goodman in the… Read More
IL Lee at Art Projects International
October 22, 2004Art AsiaPacific
A product of both Western and Asian cultures, Il Lee's remarkable series of ballpoint pen drawings quote both the theoretical and physical… Read More
Art AsiaPacific Review - Richard Tsao
September 01, 2004Art AsiaPacific
Each canvas presents a surface of densely encrusted color, comprised of dozens of layers of paint that evoke tectonic plates taking shape as they… Read More
Jean Shin in The New York Times
June 20, 2004The New York Times
To make the mural, Ms. Shin clipped out the seams, cuffs, collars, plackets and pockets from the garments that the curator collected for her. Then,… Read More
Art Projects International: Ten Years
June 01, 2004Art AsiaPacific
Art Projects International (API) commemorates ten years of dedication to contemporary art with their anniversary release of Art Projects… Read More
Marking: Drawings by Contemporary Artists from Korea
March 01, 2004Art AsiaPacific
The exhibition Marking: Drawings by Contemporary Artists from Korea is reviewed in Art AsiaPacific. Read More
Zhang Jian-Jun at DiverseWorks
February 01, 2004Art in America
Zhang Jian-Jun, who divides his time between New York and his native Shanghai, showed two high-concept projects. The first, 2000 Years in Motion… Read More
A Week of Surprises
January 05, 2004Asian Art News
At a group show at Art Projects International, the works of Korean artist Il Lee and Chinese artist Hilda Shen were of note. Lee's ballpoint pen… Read More
All about the Delicacy and Energy of the Line - IL Lee
November 23, 2003The New York Times
For pure linear intensity, IL Lee's drawings cannot be bettered. They demonstrate how pen and ink can be used to build complex forms that seem held… Read More
In-Hyung Kim & Jian-Jun Zhang at Art Projects International
October 01, 2003Art Asia Pacific
Despite the similarity in theme, the source of the show's dynamic lay in the subtle balancing of differences. Both artists worked with concepts of… Read More
Visual Experience Time And Cultural Form: Installations by Zhang Jian-Jun
December 01, 2002Chinese-Art.com
Zhang Jian-Jun's art is concerned with continuity of culture and of human values through time and space. In an era when there is such fascination… Read More
Kismet - Gwenn Thomas
November 01, 2002ARTnews
Gwenn Thomas's neo-retro pastel beauties also shimmered–pigments prints on canvas that pictured strips of ripped photographic paper and cut felt in… Read More
Pouran Jinchi
October 01, 2002Art in America
Many of her strokes are derived from Farsi letters and diacritical marks that push away from legibility and direct themselves toward organic… Read More
Gwenn Thomas at Art Projects International
October 01, 2002Art in America
For the 18 pieces in the show, including three C-prints of drawings, Thomas uses photography to highlight detail and tonal quality. Read More
Kismet, The Unexpected Connection - Gwenn Thomas
September 06, 2002The New York Times
…Gwenn Thomas's gridded collages of torn paper and scraps of felt. But her pictures turn out to be photographs of collages printed in slightly dim… Read More
Gwenn Thomas
June 01, 2002NY Arts Magazine
The Iris or Pigment prints invite the viewer to travel through a time tunnel of recent technologies. At the end of the tunnel, were light can be… Read More
In-Hyung Kim at Art Projects International
January 01, 2002Art in America
In-Hyung Kim’s art feels authentically Symbolist; its visionary power and refusal to yield specific meanings fulfill Mallarmé’s goal of allusiveness… Read More
Pouran Jinchi
October 01, 2001Art Asia Pacific
In a large untitled painting from 2000, inspired by a poem in Farsi, two groups of black calligraphic strokes rise up on the left and right sides of… Read More
Small Marks, Big Spaces The Paintings of Yeong Gill Kim
April 01, 1999Art Asia Pacific
Kim differentiates between our knowledge of art as a material medium and its ability to affect the imagination. He returns the work to the viewer,… Read More
Art in America Review - Richard Tsao
March 01, 1999Art in America
Paint was poured, channeled, laid wet on wet, dried, scraped, blotted, bruised and flayed. The resulting surfaces are wrinkled, folded and torn;… Read More
Anders Moseholm at Art Projects International
May 01, 1998Art in America
Moseholm incorporates cityscapes, words, movie stars and the occasional giraffe in a fluid, blurry style. While some paintings resemble a soft-focus… Read More
Pomaoism
March 01, 1998Art & Auction
...at least five New York galleries have begun to represent artists from China ....while the five-year-old Art Projects International gallery, run by… Read More
The Drawn and the Painted in the New Works of Kim In-Hyung
February 02, 1998SPACE, Seoul
In looking at In-Hyung Kim's large drawing comprising sixty-six individual works on paper currently on display in New York City at Art Projects… Read More
IL Lee - Line and Form: Drawings 1984-1996
April 01, 1997Space, Seoul
At first glance–in looking at the exhibition of Il Lee's drawings at Art Projects International (API) in New York City–Il Lee's drawings are… Read More
West Goes East: A New Generation of Asian Artists Has Become a Force in the International Art Market
March 01, 1997ARTnews
Hope abounds, however. “Everybody's talking about Asian artists, but until recently, only traditional art was seen," states Jung Lee Sanders, a… Read More
IL Lee at Art Projects International
February 01, 1997Review
Captivated by the announcement card, I went down for a preview. Though the drawings are mostly recent, one initiating work from 1984 is included--a… Read More
Art Projects International/Paddy Hamilton: Global Skin Tones
January 01, 1997New York Soho Arts
Yeong Gill Kim at Art Projects International
September 13, 1996The New York Times
Born in Korea, now living in New York City, this painter works on a large scale in black and white acrylic. The canvas surfaces are scuffed and… Read More
Enter Youth, Quieter and Subtler
May 17, 1996The New York Times
Spring, however reluctant, always brings a rise in the number of first shows, those gallery exhibitions by which artists young or unknown first dip… Read More
The Village Voice Review - Gwenn Thomas
March 26, 1996The Village Voice
Her gray-toned geometric abstractions are photos of low-tech collages that have been printed on linen and stretched like paintings, so they seesaw… Read More
Paddy Hamilton and Emmanuelle Waeckerle
November 27, 1995The Village Voice
A collaborative project involving a found object (a headless plastic camel) and their own Euro-African ethnicity by two artists working in London,… Read More
Jung Hyang Kim and Jian-Jun Zhang
June 01, 1995SPACE, Seoul
Jian-Jun Zhang showed several works from his "Fire and Water" series. The artist is primarily known for his installations, which tend to symbolize… Read More
Flash Asia: International Asian Art Brief - Jian-Jun Zhang
May 01, 1995Flash Art
Art Projects International exhibited Jung Hyang Kim and Jian-Jun Zhang, from 1 April to 29 April. The artists... Read More
Flash Asia: International Asian Art Brief
March 01, 1995Flash Art
Art Projects International, which aims to facilitate international dialogue between Western and Eastern artists and audiences, exhibited New York… Read More
Reviews: Gwenn Thomas
February 01, 1995Artforum
By isolating the most basic properties of photography and the behavior of sensitized surfaces–grays and blacks, light and shadow, texture and… Read More
The Village Voice Review - Gwenn Thomas
December 20, 1994The Village Voice
Teetering between severe and decorative, deadpan and parodic, Thomas's mostly gray-toned geometric abstractions also straddle mediums. Photographs of… Read More
Art in Review - Gwenn Thomas
December 16, 1994The New York Times
Photographs of grids made up of squares and strips of cardboard, printed on linen coated with light-sensitive emulsion to produce elegant, silvery… Read More