K. Imperial Fine Art is excited to present Moon Shadow, a collection of recent works by contemporary artist Bumin Kim. This is Kim’s first solo exhibition with K. Imperial.
 
Bumin Kim is a rising talent that has exhibited in recent years on a national scale. Based in Texas, Kim has founded her practice on subtlety, precision, and sculpturality — all while using thread as her primary medium. Thread provides Kim with a unique material with which to test the conventions of texture, composition, geometry, and fiber-based art as a whole. Kim’s work intentionally straddles a number of different thresholds, and the intriguing tension that arises as a result is evident in this new exhibition.

“This body of work is a showcase of questions; an approach towards the idea of drawing and painting in the expanded field. Kim explores the nature of line, and the potential held therein, to push the boundaries between the two-dimensional surface and three-dimensional space. Thread and string are synonymous with the actions of weaving and stitching, both for utilitarian purposes, and to serve as metaphor, for the joining of two separate entities with efforts to repair what once was, or with the intent of becoming something other, whole and new.
 

Moon Shadow #1
2021
29 x 47 inches
thread and acrylic on wood panel

The transformative power of materiality is at play in these works. Kim has repurposed the context of thread and string, to emphasize the energy, delicacy, and grace of drawing and painting. Both the weight of line as thin and singular, and the collection of lines en masse as solid form, are sensitive tools found in Kim’s repertoire…Brushstrokes become thread and string as well, and the flat surface is liberated to breathe into three-dimensional space. The nature, which carries powerful energies, is visually translated into subtle hues, lines, solid forms, and immaterial prisms of flowing color in her work.”

2021
36 x 36 inches
thread and acrylic on wood panel