Panorama of the City of New York
. Kim’s series of drawings show bodies signing the words “Time,” “Owes,” “Me,” “Rest,” and “Again” in American Sign Language. The evocative phrase is meant to have a number of different associations: Kim’s interest in “the societal and systemic inequity that persists between Deaf communities and the hearing communities,” as a press release explains; the general contemporary state of fatigue with the Covid-19 pandemic; and the specific experience of the immigrant communities in the Queens Museum’s vicinity, which have been particularly burdened by the fallout of the pandemic and the associated “amplified malignancies...
The most important thing that’s recently found a permanent home in my studio is my new Wi-Fi signal booster. I’ve been having issues getting a decent connection in there and had to move back and forth between different rooms for Zooms and actual work. Now I can stay in one place to work.I love it when you can really see that the artist is having fun. And I really admire people who combine colors so well; I’m always afraid of using colors.
Pre-Covid: drinking wine with friends. During Covid: binge watching whatever the hot show is at the time.
Spliffarious and BLUNTANEOUS out now!!