New Kid on the Block: Art Projects International

January 31, 2012Tribeca Citizen

The gallery, founded in Soho 18 years ago, has opened on Greenwich Street. “We were one of the first platforms for artists from Asia,” says founder Jung Lee Sanders, although now API represents artists from all over... The current show, up through February 25, is… Read More New Kid on the Block: Art Projects International

A Perfect Match

November 01, 2011Harper's Bazaar Interiors

On the walls hang original artworks from Art Projects International, which deals in contemporary Asian artists. Two pieces hanging in the living room and kitchen are by South Korean-born artist Il Lee. "His work is now being recognized worldwide with installations in… Read More A Perfect Match

Gwenn Thomas at Art Projects International

November 01, 2011ARTnews

The show "Pog-an-ee" consisted of the painting/photograph hybrids that Gwenn Thomas made in the '90s. She would first assemble small colored collages using paper strips, corrugated plastic board, and packing tape, and then photograph them in black and white with an… Read More Gwenn Thomas at Art Projects International

Gwenn Thomas at Art Projects International

August 17, 2011Artforum

The eleven photographic emulsions in Gwenn Thomas’s latest exhibition, “Pog-an-ee,” have such an unassuming wit and elegant presence that one could miss that the series is at once a sharp reflection on the legacy of modernism and a virtuosic performance of some of its… Read More Gwenn Thomas at Art Projects International

Conversation with IL LEE

August 03, 2011Asia Art Archive in America

A dialogue about the work and experiences of Il Lee with Jane DeBevoise (Chair, Asia Art Archive), Jung Lee Sanders (Director, Art Projects International) and Ali Van (AAA-A Project Coordinator) on the occasion of the exhibition Representation/Abstraction in Korean ArtRead More Conversation with IL LEE

The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won’t Want to Miss - Gwenn Thomas

July 01, 2011Art in America

With an ever-growing number of galleries scattered around New York, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where to begin? Here at A.i.A., we are always on the hunt for clever, memorable shows that stand out in a crowded field. Every Thursday, we'll post the 10 shows our team… Read More The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won’t Want to Miss - Gwenn Thomas

Richard Tsao at Art Projects International

May 01, 2011Art in America

Before Richard Tsao considers a painting ready to leave his studio, he takes it through a process that is not unlike nature’s millennial buildup of sediment to form solid rock mass. However, Tsao’s color-saturated, highly textured pieces on wood or canvas—accretions… Read More Richard Tsao at Art Projects International

Thom Hall Talk – Richard Tsao

February 07, 2011Arkansas Times

Hall touched on the Arts Center’s significant collections... Read More Thom Hall Talk – Richard Tsao

IL LEE – Eye On Alumni

November 10, 2010Gateway (Pratt Institute, New York)

When The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its newly installed Arts of Korea Gallery this month, it will showcase two works by Il Lee (M.F.A. ’82), a Korean-born, New York-based artist best known for creating innovative works both on paper and canvas using ballpoint… Read More IL LEE – Eye On Alumni

Top Summer Shows You Can Still Catch, North and South - IL Lee

September 08, 2010The Huffington Post

This week we jump from the north to the south in the western states outside of California to pinpoint the top shows that will carry over from the summer season. With Labor Day past, this coming weekend opens the new season with a plethora of new shows.... Read More Top Summer Shows You Can Still Catch, North and South - IL Lee

Communicating Translation - Pouran Jinchi

August 31, 2010The Cornell Daily Sun

....Pouran Jinchi also plays with the formal qualities of written word in her pieces. One of the most striking objects in the show is her set of scrolls inscribed with text from the Quran with all of the consonants omitted — a comment on the experience of many who know… Read More Communicating Translation - Pouran Jinchi

Il Lee’s Large Ballpoint Pen Drawings Harness a Powerful Quiet

June 07, 2010D Magazine

Calm and frenzy lay down together in the remarkable little show of big work New Vision: Ballpoint Drawings by Il Lee at the Crow Collection through September 26. Lee makes huge abstract drawings by scribbling with a ballpoint pen until paper or canvas is coated with… Read More Il Lee’s Large Ballpoint Pen Drawings Harness a Powerful Quiet

Contrapuntal Infinitudes: Il Lee at Art Projects International

June 01, 2010artcritical

For some 30 years Il Lee has exclusively used, and abused, ballpoint pens, surely by now many tens of thousands of them, to make extraordinary drawings. A satisfying survey of his works on paper from the past 10 years (he also draws on canvas) is currently on view at… Read More Contrapuntal Infinitudes: Il Lee at Art Projects International

Bangkok Report: In the New Siam - Richard Tsao

June 01, 2010Art in America

Richard Tsao, long based in New York but closely linked to his Thai homeland, creates thickly layered, encrusted canvases distantly influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting but with a palette born in the flower market of Bangkok... Read More Bangkok Report: In the New Siam - Richard Tsao

IL LEE: Small Works 2001-2010 at Art Projects International

March 30, 2010The Drawing Center News, The Bottom Line

Currently on display is a brilliant selection of ballpoint pen drawings by artist Il Lee (b. 1952, Korea) created from 2001-2010. Lee has been creating ballpoint pen drawings for over 30 years, and they continue to dazzle. Black, and in more recent works, blue and red… Read More IL LEE: Small Works 2001-2010 at Art Projects International

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 artist deems it complete... Having finally achieved a certain compositional “tension”—the planes of pink, blue, white,… Read More Where I Work: Richard Tsao

Profile: Pouran Jinchi

October 01, 2009Canvas, Dubai

With a diverse artistic repertoire that includes works in a variety of media and sizes, including paintings, sculptures and video installations, Pouran Jinchi is very much a product of the modern age. Yet much of her inspiration is drawn from the ancient traditions of… Read More Profile: Pouran Jinchi

IL Lee in Santa Fe

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 either canvas or paper in a seemingly uninterrupted flow. One work, titled MBL-020, draws your attention from the loose,… Read More IL Lee in Santa Fe

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 all of its Arabic consonants; and the 130 deliciously pretty acrylic pastries that make up the dead man’s chalk line in… Read More Museums: The Actually Cool Guide – Pouran Jinchi

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 means to be Iranian, and sometimes in the same way, no matter where they are. Golnaz Fathi, who lives in Tehran, walks the… Read More Iran Inside Out - Pouran Jinchi

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 that Ms. Jinchi took of two carved stones in a Shia shrine in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. One stone was inscribed… Read More The Many Voices of Enlightment - Pouran Jinchi

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 formal repetition speaks to her works' time based genesis, with the result that the perusal of their surfaces seems an act… Read More Pouran Jinchi in Art Asia Pacific

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 week. The exhibition... Read More Royal Taste in Art Put on Display - Pouran Jinchi

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 explain why he does so and considers the possible relationship of these works to nanoscale phenomena and technology, which… Read More Nanoscale and Painting - Filipe Rocha da Silva

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 context. She states, “In Farsi and Arabic, the punctuation markings are hardly used any more. The Koran is the perfect example… Read More Lost in Transliteration - Pouran Jinchi

Pouran Jinchi in Time Out Dubai

January 17, 2008Time Out Dubai

Read More Pouran Jinchi in Time Out Dubai

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 engrossing show by the veteran Korean artist Il Lee. The centerpiece is a 50-foot drawing that took two and a half months… Read More IL LEE Ballpoint Drawings at the Queens Museum of Art

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 "Ballpoint Drawings," on view at the Queens Museum of Art through the 30th of this month, Lee created his largest work yet:… Read More A Few Good Pens - IL LEE

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 inked snowflakelike blob with feathery edges, or a pattern that recalls a distant constellation, or foliage, or even… Read More To See the World in Ballpoint Pen - IL LEE

IL Lee - Queens Museum of Art

August 07, 2007The New Yorker

“Il Lee.” Hundreds of thousands of disposable ballpoint pens have passed through the Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s hands over the years, and he’s mastered his medium. He knows how the ink will warm to produce a free-flowing line; he’s learned how to build up… Read More IL Lee - Queens Museum of Art

‘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 installation titled... Read More ‘No Border’: Zheng Xuewu Solo Exhibition

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 would make it hard to rid the psyche of mountains, as a recent New York exhibition bore testament. Read More The Mountain’s Hold

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 sublime, black-and-blue abstractions. Most works... Read More Il Lee: Ballpoint Drawings - Queens Museum of Art

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 Drawings at Queens Museum of Art

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 than 20 years ago Lee, now in his mid 50s, began working with one of the few marking tools underrepresented in… Read More IL LEE: Ballpoint Abstractions at San Jose Museum of Art

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, chose another path in 1981, when he began to draw exclusively with the humble ballpoint pen—and not just any ballpoint, but… Read More Whirls Enough And Time, IL LEE does wonders with a humble ballpoint pen

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 of powerful visual notes: "BL-060" (2005) is nearly room-sized, spreading across a 7-by-12-foot canvas. His lines shout… Read More Beauty in Ballpoint: Distinctive Doodles by Il Lee

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 the new. In Lee’s hand, line achieves tremendous power and a range of moods and “personalities.” At times it is… Read More IL LEE: Ballpoint Abstractions (text from catalogue)

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 in the work they produce," says Jung Lee Sanders, owner of Art Projects International, a New York gallery. Her roster… Read More China’s Hottest Export: Contemporary Art

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 edges of his images diffused and loosened by random curling lines. The results, which take on a performative aspect given… Read More IL Lee, Chun Kwang-Young and Lee Ufan: International Abstraction, Generational Trajectories

Gwenn Thomas at Yvon Lambert

December 01, 2006Art in America

A series of strikingly crisp photographs taken in 1974 by painter and photographer Gwenn Thomas for Avalanche (the short-lived art publication that exemplified the improvisational spirit of the 1970s avant-garde) was the summer offering at Yvon Lambert. Thomas's… Read More Gwenn Thomas at Yvon Lambert

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 describes an arc or line on his paper or canvas support. The ink becomes increasingly fluid with the heat of his hand as… Read More IL Lee at Art Projects International

Contemporary Asian Arts Week

July 01, 2006The Brooklyn Rail

Contemporary Asian Arts week, held since 2002, is dedicated to showcasing the best of Asian Art through a consortium of 28 participants. Though the week is pan-Asian, Chinese artists in particular are gaining rapidly in the New York art world. Galleries like Jack… Read More Contemporary Asian Arts Week

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 to mind a classical approach. Grand themes are developed with assuredness, while details are at once supporting arguments… Read More Just what is it that makes Il Lee’s art so different, so appealing?

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 seems to breathe with the breath it took to make it while the endless markings, both visible and scribbled over, trace and… Read More IL LEE: Beyond the Minimal

Art in America Review - Richard Tsao

October 01, 2005Art in America

The surface of Tsao’s paintings are rich with water-based pigment, their skins variously eroded and elsewhere built up with marble dust and the matte medium he uses as a binder. As the medium extends the integrity of the pigment, he manipulates it to achieve substrata… Read More Art in America Review - Richard Tsao

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. The combination of techniques results in art of singular complexity in which complicated abstract and figurative images,… Read More Review, Zheng Xuewu at API

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 and realism. The shadows in the scans or photos produce trompe l'oeil effects that make viewers consider what it is they… Read More Painters to Watch: Collage Education - Gwenn Thomas

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 Winter (#43) issue of Art AsiaPacific. Read More Time Chapter: Chelsea - Jian-Jun Zhang

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 reductiveness of minimalism and the understated lyricism of classical Asian culture. Read More IL Lee at Art Projects International

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 drift across a planet's surface. Flecks of pigment emerge like faint starts that at first glance register on one's retina… Read More Art AsiaPacific Review - Richard Tsao

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 International: Ten Years, a timeline formatted book highlighting gallery works and events from 1993-2003. Read More Art Projects International: Ten Years

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 Marking: Drawings by Contemporary Artists from Korea

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 (2003), consists of three silicone rubber columns, ranging from 74 to 94 inches in height, on motorized scootboards. At the… Read More Zhang Jian-Jun at DiverseWorks

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 drawing of a dense tangle of lines and fluid, amorphous shapes was captivating and looked more like a beautiful painting… Read More A Week of Surprises

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 together by some sort of adhesive energy. But around the edges, the line breaks away from the gravitational force that… Read More All about the Delicacy and Energy of the Line - IL Lee

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 the organic, however Zhang's ascetic black and white compositions visualized a different approach from Kim's strong colors… Read More In-Hyung Kim & Jian-Jun Zhang at Art Projects International

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 with the superficial changes that flit through the kaleidoscope of daily life, the affirmation of a coherent substrate is… Read More Visual Experience Time And Cultural Form: Installations by Zhang Jian-Jun

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 abstractions paying homage to Lee Krasner's "City Verticals." Thomas however, adds such a preternatural tangibility to… Read More Kismet - Gwenn Thomas

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 abstraction. Formerly, her paintings began with a text, usually a Persian poem; the marks she made reflected both the actual… Read More Pouran Jinchi

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 Gwenn Thomas at Art Projects International

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 colors on canvas: virtual collages that wryly comment on Modernism's love affair with raw materials. For a complete copy… Read More Kismet, The Unexpected Connection - Gwenn Thomas

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 expected, Thomas's drawing or collage appear, imbued with the meaning and mystery of the artist's emotional self. Less than… Read More Gwenn Thomas

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 and musicality. Luminous veils of white and yellow arise at the centers of her paintings, evoking indeterminate distance… Read More In-Hyung Kim at Art Projects International

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 the painting, forming a U-shape as they drop down and then meet in the middle. Read More Pouran Jinchi

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, believing that the dialogue between the two is achieved only when 'physical limitations are jumped over." Read More Small Marks, Big Spaces The Paintings of Yeong Gill Kim

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; edges are uneven, with the paint extending beyond the support. The emerging configurations were frequently appraised,… Read More Art in America Review - Richard Tsao

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 version of Mark Tansey, other works, particularly the depictions of film celebrities, remind the viewer of Gerhard… Read More Anders Moseholm at Art Projects International

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 Korean-born curator and critic Jung Lee Sanders, regularly shows art from China and Chinese-born artists living in New… Read More Pomaoism

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 International's exhibition In-Hyung Kim: New Works, a viewer is confronted with an overview–perhaps, a key–to Ms. Kim's new… Read More The Drawn and the Painted in the New Works of Kim In-Hyung

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 attractive minimalist works–black ink on paper. After some close observation, or perhaps after reading a press release or… Read More IL Lee - Line and Form: Drawings 1984-1996

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 Korean-born dealer who opened her gallery, API, in SoHo in 1993. “To have a truly international market for contemporary… Read More West Goes East: A New Generation of Asian Artists Has Become a Force in the International Art Market

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 startling row of five black, hairy-looking ovals which seem so physical you'd swear they were removable. Read More IL Lee at Art Projects International

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 stained, setting up smudgy, accidental landscapes, with mountains defined here and there by clusters of curved lines. Read More Yeong Gill Kim at Art Projects International

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 into the ebb and flow of the New York art world. Such shows have been... Read More Enter Youth, Quieter and Subtler

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 provocatively between mediums, as intelligent as they are entertaining. Read More The Village Voice Review - Gwenn Thomas

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, tided "Carry Me Along Oh Roads." Read More Paddy Hamilton and Emmanuelle Waeckerle

Lushly Layered Abstraction - Richard Tsao

August 11, 1995The New York Times

Can the kind of painting Richard Tsao is doing—chromatically opulent, process-intensive abstraction—have anything fresh to yield? The answer is yes on the evidence of this show, the first New York solo by an artist born in Thailand and educated in the United States.… Read More Lushly Layered Abstraction - Richard Tsao

Report from New York – 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 larger processes. In "Fog Inside" (1992), for example, there is a black metal pool filled with ink and water, which are… Read More Report from New York – Jung Hyang Kim and Jian-Jun Zhang

Flash Asia: International Asian Art Brief

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

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 artist Li-Lan in the show "Postmarks: Recent Paintings and Pastels" (27 November – 1 December), and exhibited the work of… Read More Flash Asia: International Asian Art Brief

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 tone–Thomas' grids provide a remarkable and elegant demonstration of the way the medium of photography shapes the look of… Read More Reviews: Gwenn Thomas

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 collaged material (paper strips and squares, packing tape) are printed on specially sensitized linen and hung unframed… Read More The Village Voice Review - Gwenn Thomas

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 works that shimmer on the wall. Read More Art in Review - Gwenn Thomas

The Arts Guide – Live Art

March 11, 1994International Herald Tribune

"Live Art." Photographs, installations and paintings by Laurie Simmons, Rupert Goldsworthy, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Gerald Pryor, Shari Diamond, Suzanne Nicholas, Judy Natal, Ward Shelley, Michael Hall and Louise Lawler. Read More The Arts Guide – Live Art

Galleries USA – Art Projects International

March 01, 1994Flash Art

Art Projects International opened its new gallery space at 470 Broome Street with an exhibition of recent works by Korean-born artist In-Hyung Kim, on view through 3 March. API was created in 1993... Read More Galleries USA – Art Projects International