Plank Piece, Charles Ray, 1973

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography was a historic show that exhibited photographers who did not label themselves as such, rather, as 'artists'.  The event focused on around 20 years of photography and was one of the most influential markers of art photography in the West.  The show contained approximately 150 works which documented their artistic pursuits from performance pieces, assemblage, staged self-portraits, sculpture or film. The exhibition was also the first to acknowledge. in their entirety, the simultaneous Modern art movements of Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Arte Povera and many others.

See achieved images from the 2004 re-issue of the exhibit at The Hammer Museum

 

All of us at Nucleus are gearing up for our exhibition, Momentum tomorrow!  The works are in, and we are excited to see you all at  the opening reception.  How are all the works of Tiffany Bozic, Chigi, Ina Kyung Lim, Tessar Lo, Veronique Meignaud, and Brooks Salzwedel?  

Ina Kyung Lim has never created art for the faint hearted. From abstract expression to figurative her work is always stark and bold. Her subject these days is the nude Asian female. Tones are oft severe, darks against light flesh, representing a freedom/restraint dynamic.

Ina is a graduate of The School of Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, where she focused on painting and drawing. She is also a graphic designer, illustrator and dancer residing in Los Angeles.Ina Kyung Lim's The Shibari, a rope bondage series, has recently been showcased and installed into the permanent collection of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. The Shibari, which consisted of charcoal drawings, was also recently published in the 4^th edition of Grafuck.

There's a moment when one practices anything of great effort and skill where the laws of time and gravity stand still, where one is unburdened of the things that weigh us down and ground us. These moments are sometimes ecstatic, but always fleeting. Yet the practice alone can lead to freedom, possibility, and empowerment. The subject is weightlessness. The model, an ex-lawyer turned dancer, embodies the fierceness, dedication, power and possibility for embarking on a journey to freedom. Her leaps are aspiration. Like objects of art used in meditation, these paintings remind the viewer of a moment of enlightenment where one finds themselves unburdened and weightless.