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Drawing and Painting

Shinae Kim

A Glimpse of Blue

Painting
2023
Oil on canvas
72" x 60"
"A Glimpse of Blue" is a portrait of cramped sorrow. It is told from the perspective of a child’s poignantly turned-away back: He is looking away from something horrible – we don’t know what it is. But above him, the sky is blue which allows him to remain an optimist.

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Shinae Kim, "A Glimpse of Blue", Oil on canvas, 72" x 60", 2023.
Shinae Kim, "A Glimpse of Blue", Oil on canvas, 72" x 60", 2023.

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Shinae Kim

Drawing and Painting

“I’m interested in the investigation of migration - to wit, my family’s history with its sensations of deracination and tragedy. In the migration series, I have painted Asian migrants and migrant...” [More]