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 
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 landscapes, with mountains defined here and there by clusters of curved lines. 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 into the ebb and flow of the New York art world. Such shows have been... 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 provocatively between mediums, as intelligent as they are entertaining. 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, tided "Carry Me Along Oh Roads." Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
