Calvin Kim
Bio: Calvin Kim is an artist born in Los Angeles, California. He received a joint BFA and BA in Psychology at Cornell University and is a candidate for an MFA at Columbia University.
www.kimcalvin.com
Instagram: @midponder_cloud
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Slippage, spillage, and stillness are ways I think about what a painting does in relation to life. It is not about describing what a thing is—it is about being with. To touch and to be touched. My paintings are made in the way my body remembers, forgets, and feels in my everyday waking and sleeping—and everything in-between. It is like when words become seeds, and scars become stars.
And in this process of renewing Waiting is a prolonging of arrival to something, to someplace, to someone. With this prolonging of time grows a longing, and with it, weight. In this threshold, a decision to wade in my interiority is then to reimagine, rupture, and transform time.
Waiting,
weighting,
wading,
is then choosing to
contemplate,
implicate,
liberate
precarity with hope and wonder.
L to R: Midnight Bowl (32" x 40", Oil on canvas, 2023); The Palace at 4AM (58" x 56", Oil on canvas, 2023); Festina Lente (48"x 60", Oil on canvas, 2023); Coda (8"x 60", Oil on canvas, 2023)
First Year Exhibition
L to R: Poiesis (46" x 48", Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2022); Promise Pocket (7.5" x 8" x 7", Acrylic, resin, modeling clay, and insulation foam , 2022)
