A selection of articles, press, and reviews on current and past API artists and exhibitions.
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All about the Delicacy and Energy of the Line - IL Lee
November 23, 2003The New York Times
"All about the Delicacy and Energy of the Line"
Review written by Helen A. Harrison
The New York Times, November 23, 2003 Read More 
Marking: Drawing by Contemporary Artists from Korea
November 17, 2003The Korea Society Quarterly
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… 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 with the superficial changes that flit… 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 abstraction... 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 
Gwenn Thomas
June 01, 2002NY Arts Magazine
The exhibition Gwenn Thomas: Recent Work at Art Projects International is reviewed by Eduardo Costa in NY Arts Magazine. Read More 
In-Hyung Kim at Art Projects International
January 01, 2002Art in America
Much of Kim's work is characterized by the rhapsodic and lyrical, but this remarkable painter also has a strong sense of the constructive. Read More 
Pouran Jinchi
October 01, 2001Art AsiaPacific
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 fo the painting, forming a U-shape as… Read More 
Small Marks, Big Spaces The Paintings of Yeong Gill Kim
April 01, 1999Art Asia Pacific
Kim differentiates between our knowlege 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… 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; edges are uneven, with the paint… 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 version of Mark Tansey, other… 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 attractive minimalist works--black ink on… Read More 
IL Lee, 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,… 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 stained, setting up smudgy, accidental… Read More 
Flash Asia: International Asian Art Brief - Jian-Jun Zhang
May 01, 1995Flash Art International, Milan
Flash Asia: International Asian Art Brief - Monochromatic Visions
March 01, 1995Flash Art International, Milan
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… 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 works that shimmer on the wall. Read More 
