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 
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
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
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
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 Art… Read More
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
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
Thom Hall Talk – Richard Tsao
February 07, 2011Arkansas Times
Hall touched on the Arts Center’s significant collections... Read More
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
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
Communicating Translation - Pouran Jinchi
August 31, 2010The Cornell Daily Sun
The new group exhibit, Tarjama/Translation, at the Johnson Museum meditates on the difficulties of translation — an inherently incomplete art — and offers visual means for filling in the lacunas of understanding. The curators looked beyond overplayed subjects (such as… Read More
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
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
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
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
Enriched by Tradition – Pouran Jinchi
February 05, 2010Gulf News, Dubai
Pouran Jinchi is reviewed in Gulf News. Read More
Like a Prayer – Pouran Jinchi
January 28, 2010Time Out Dubai
Pouran Jinchi is reviewed in Time Out Dubai. 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 artist deems it complete... Having finally achieved a certain compositional “tension”—the planes of pink, blue, white,… Read More
Profile: Pouran Jinchi
October 01, 2009Canvas, Dubai
Pouran Jinchi's profile by Ladan Akbarnia in the current issue of Canvas, the premier art and culture magazine published in Dubai. Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
