ethereal

Still here

2012-02-21T19:53:00.001-08:00

It's been really really long while...
I am trying to get things done, prepare other new stuff and also in the middle of renovating my blog. I will be back when I am finally done with moving!

Lavender Butterfly

2011-07-24T20:50:00.000-07:00

Lavender Butterfly

"Red String" Series

2011-07-24T20:49:00.000-07:00

"Red String" Series

2011-07-24T20:48:00.000-07:00

"Red String" Series

2011-07-24T20:46:00.000-07:00

"Red String" Series

Jane in Forest

2011-07-18T21:18:00.001-07:00

TOAE is done! All artworks are delivered to their new homes. Thank you for all who came to see my works. It was great to see familiar faces once again, and of course new faces too! The show was definitely successful. I learned a lot by seeing other professional artists and listening to your comments and feedback. I am hoping to upload those new images that I had prepared for TOAE, once I get my camera fixed. For now, I have this image of "Jane in Forest," which was done with pen and ink on white paper. I will try to update blog more regularly with new works.
Thank you!

TOAE

2011-07-06T07:10:00.000-07:00

Hello all!
I will be showing and selling artworks again at TOAE (Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition), which is happening this weekend July 8, 9 & 10 at Nathan Philips Square. Visit me at booth 293!

Free Admission
Friday 10:30am-7:30pm
Saturday 10:30am-7:30pm
Sunday 10:30am-6:30pm

www.torontooutdoorart.org

Golden Lock III & IV

2011-04-18T15:02:00.000-07:00

Golden Lock III (pen, Indian ink and watercolor, gold ink)

Golden Lock IV (pen, Indian ink and watercolor, gold ink)
15 1/4 x 19 1/4"

These were special order for the customer. It is the extended of golden lock and Jane. I've tried to continue similar mood and atmosphere of the previous drawings by blue, gray and gold colors. I was excited that I can continue the story of golden lock with Jane, and enjoyed drawing them! I think there is more to come for golden lock story and once they are produced, I will make sure to upload pictures of them. Hope you all enjoy!

Full shot of 'Jane and Tree'

2011-03-22T08:48:00.000-07:00

I thought I need some full shot of 'Jane and Tree,' since I've been missing it...

some photos i've been meaning to upload

2011-03-22T08:41:00.000-07:00

Rainy Night

Forest

My Lime Orange Tree

Close up of 'My Lime Orange Tree'

Indian ink and pen on Japanese Paper. Acrylic on acetate. Stitches on acetate.
I've been meaning to upload these pictures, but March in school is overwhelming me with essays, projects and exams. For these works, I've actually worked with white frame that had a depth in it. I thought it would be fun to play with some colors.

TAP

2011-03-07T14:40:00.000-08:00

The Artist Project Toronto 2011
Thank you for those who dropped by TAP! Thank you for those who stopped by my booth!
Thank you for all the support and feedback. I really enjoyed showing my works and learn how you react and respond. I will update more picture of my recent works, which showed at TAP, also new works that I will be working on.

When moon changes its color...

2011-03-07T14:35:00.000-08:00

When moon changes its color... 2010
Pen and ink, watercolor on Japanese paper and wooden panel, stitching and acrylics on acetate.

Golden Lock

2011-03-07T14:30:00.000-08:00

Golden Lock I, II. 2010
Pen and ink, gold ink and watercolor on Japanese paper

Upcoming Exhibition at TAP

2011-02-17T21:30:00.000-08:00

Hello!
Once again thank you for dropping by at Gales gallery! Thank you for all your support!
I've really enjoyed reading comments and feedback. :)
TAP is upcoming exhibition that is coming very soon, and I wanted to give you heads up!
I'm a little worried and I can already feel butterflies flying in my stomach, but I will give my best! I will see you all there soon!

j a n e at gales

2011-02-14T06:31:00.000-08:00

j a n e

by michelle soyeon kim

gales gallery

feb 14 – 18

opening reception: 17^th Thursday

at 6:30pm

Gales Gallery Show

2011-02-02T06:36:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! I have upcoming show at Gales gallery, which is in York University. If you are not sure where York University is, it is...4700 Keele Street. Toronto, Ontario. It's Keele campus. The gallery is situated in the Accolade west building, on the first level. Here is more in depth instruction of where it might be: http://www.yorku.ca/yorkweb/maps/keele.htm
The show starts Feb 14th and it goes until 18th. Please come drop by!

From Freedom CC Gallery

2011-01-27T07:39:00.000-08:00

Pictures from Freedom CC., please check !

freedomccgallery.wordpress.com

At the Best of TOAE

2011-01-27T07:35:00.000-08:00

At the best of TOAE 2010...

Sketchbook Project - Art house co op.

2011-01-15T19:00:00.000-08:00

These are some images from the storybook that I have done for the sketchbook project. I was fortunate enough to get to know about the project from one of TOAE visitors. Basically, anyone can sign up to be part of the sketchbook project, and they send you the moleskin sketchbook. Topics, themes, materials are up to your decision, and you can do anything with it, except that you just have to fit everything in the sketchbook. When sketchbooks are completed and collected in Brooklyn, they will go on tour across U.S. (I know it is too bad that it is not coming to Canada..) However, I did make an order to digitalize my book so that everyone can view it online! More images will be availabe on the website, www.arthousecoop.com . However, the sketchbook is still on the way to Brooklyn, so it will take a while to get it uploaded. As soon as it gets updated, I will post the link on my blog :)

Best of 2010 TOAE

2011-01-12T10:45:00.000-08:00

TOAE is happening again this winter!

It will start on January 17th till Feb 25th.

I have uploaded the poster and map, in case you have troubles finding the place.

See you at FCP gallery!

Freedom CC Gallery

2011-01-12T10:10:00.000-08:00

Window Project

Hello everyone!

I wanted to tell you that there are reasons why I have been so quiet for past few months.

In fact, it is not just me procrastinating, but me = working hard!

I have few upcoming exhibitions this January, and Freedom CC Gallery window project is one of them.

I do not have pictures yet, but I will be setting up the works this Sunday and I will make sure some pictures will be updated on my blog. Please come visit Freedom CC Gallery's window!

From January 18th (for two weeks!)

Tues-Sun from 12-7pm

Address: 939 bloor st. w., toronto, on M6H 1L5

freedomccgallery.wordpress.com // freedomclothingcollective.com

so far...

2010-12-08T18:18:00.000-08:00

Jane and tree
is coming along...
I've done up to the waist, but I'm kind of hesitant...

coming soon

2010-11-09T17:19:00.001-08:00

upcoming jane and umbrella...
more images to be added soon

From Russia with Love

2010-09-13T18:12:00.001-07:00

From Russia With Love,
experience and memories that I will never forget... I already miss you Mr. St. Petersburg!

The State Hermitage Museum

2010-09-13T17:57:00.000-07:00

Art Semester at the Hermitage

During two weeks from 9 to 22 August 2010 the program Art Semester at the Hermitage organized byìthe museum’s Youth Educational Center and the Hermitage’s Canadian Friends’ Club was held for the students of Canada’s higher education institutions of art.

After the contest arranged by the Hermitage’s Canadian Friends’ Club 10 students arrived to St Petersburg to participate in this educational program. They were offered a specialized course of lectures on the history of art at the Hermitage halls combined with creative classes of visual and applied arts and photography at the workshop of the Youth Center.

In addition, the program Art Semester developed by the center’s employees included excursions devoted to the history of St Petersburg, visits to museums, workshops of modern artists, drawing classes. Students visited the workshop of Alexander Dashevsky, a young, yet internationally renowned St Petersburg artist who told them about his work and ideas regarding the processes existing in the field of modern art in Russia and St Petersburg. During the trip to Kronstadt and the visit to the residence of St Petersburg branch of Cyland modern art center and media art laboratory the students had a meeting with Mikhail Krest, St Petersburg, and Andrew Demirjian, American media artist invited to Russia to participate in the new, fourth CYBERFEST festival of cybernetic art which will be held in St Petersburg in November 2010 and which was preparing its audio/video installations these days.

In the program Art Semester a special place was occupied by a course of practical classes that were held at the Hermitage halls and the Peter and Paul’s fortress. Students made sketches in the museum’s halls of ancient halls, participated in the master class of traditional wood painting that was held for them by Natalia Kruglova, Head of the Art Workshop of the Students’ Club of the Youth Center. Igor Lebedev, Head of the Creative Photography section of the Students’ Club of the Hermitage’s Youth Center, in the course of the master class as a conjuror, demonstrated to the students the capabilities of the simplest chemical materials, a developer and a fixative, for making a photograph without using a photo camera.

The results of art classes of Canadian students who participated in the Art Semester program were summarized in the course of a one-day reporting demonstration of works that was held at the Hermitage’s Youth Center on the last day of the program.

Please visit for more pictures and full article,

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/11/2010/hm11_6_150.html

Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show and Sale

2010-08-03T18:43:00.000-07:00

Please take a note!
I will be at Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show & Sale!

August 27-29. 2010

Friday, August 27

3:00 pm-7:30 pm Show & Sale

with Dr Sketchy's Toronto alternative figure drawing sessions starting at 4 pm

and the vinyl-infused grooves of DeeJay Kirby throughout the day

Saturday, August 28

11:00 am-7:30 pm Show & Sale

with Dr Sketchy's Toronto alternative figure drawing sessions starting at 4 pm

and the vinyl-infused grooves of DeeJay Kirby throughout the day

Sunday, August 29

11:00 am-5:00 pm Show & Sale

with live painting by Art Fuzion from 12 pm

and a live music performance by Rambunctious at 3 pm

@ Sunnyside Pavilion
1755 Lake Shore Blvd., Toronto

Hermitage Museum Young Artists' Program

2010-08-03T18:16:00.000-07:00

Through Hermitage Museum Young Artists' Program, I will have a great opportunity to visit Russia. The program includes museum tutorials, daylong trips outside of the city, visits to contemporary artists' studios, painting, drawing and photography master classes. There are 10 university students from York University, OCAD and I believe another university was Concordian University. Originally, 10 students were nominated from each school (which means there were 30 in total). In my case, nomination was done during the open house student exhibition, which led to another portfolio application with reference letter. I will be leaving on August 8th and coming back on 22nd. I will take lots of pictures and upload as soon as I come back! (my heart pumping...pump...pump...pump)

when thoughts overrun...

2010-08-03T18:10:00.001-07:00

Pen and Indian Ink on Rice paper and Japanese paper. Watercolor pencil crayon, watercolor on wood panel. Plus acrylic board. (The picture quality is not that great... I will get another shot as soon as possible :)

Like a bird...

2010-07-16T19:44:00.001-07:00

Dream of Flying
Mixed media in a plastic case

At the blue sea

2010-07-16T19:40:00.000-07:00

Encounter of Redsun
Mixed media in a plastic case

Jane

2010-07-16T19:37:00.000-07:00

Jane by herself in a plastic case

From TOAE

2010-07-13T16:51:00.000-07:00

It has been great opportunity to be one of the participant in TOAE. I have felt and learned what it is like to be able to show and share Jane to others. Of course, I will continue to do my best to chase after my dream. Thank you for all your support!
p.s. thank you for pictures =)

jane

2010-07-13T15:52:00.000-07:00

triptych

Red Sun

2010-07-13T15:38:00.001-07:00

Chasing the Red Sun

Cloudy Day

2010-07-13T15:36:00.000-07:00

Cloudy Day with Chance of Rain

Dream

2010-07-13T15:30:00.000-07:00

Dreaming of Secret Garden

Jane chasing redsun

2010-06-29T18:42:00.001-07:00

Linen is stretched and stapled on the canvas for both top and bottom. For the top part of canvas, I thought it would be interesting to include bird, which does not appear with Jane anymore... Jane, waves of water, redsun (red fish), trees are all drawn with Indian ink and pen, watercolor and pencil crayon. All cut and stitched on the bottom canvas first. Then wooden frames are all nailed together. All pieces of drawings are attached with fish string and additional materials are added... (e.g., shadow of redsun in blue silhouette paper, acrylic paint splash on acetate paper to enclose each sides. A lighting is to be added later on, but the bottom part of waves of water will include some white decorative gravel to hide stitching and to create even out ground.) It takes a while to finish one thing... but it is interesting to experience how I have to really think around to transform the main material source of cardboard boxes to wooden canvas frames. Plus it does create quiet different feeling to it...

work place

2010-06-23T11:58:00.000-07:00

I know it has been long since I uploaded images on the blog... So here I have my no longer secret work place. I have picked up few (or lots) of canvases that were suppose to be thrown out at work. Decided to use it as park of my "Jane" project. Instead of using cardboard boxes, canvases' wooden frames are used as a box. It took me lots of planning... or at least some time, because it was definitely different than working with cardboard boxes. Where for cardboard boxes, I was able to cut and work my ways from here and there, for wooden frames, I had to make steps because once the wooden frames were nailed together, there was no way of separating them back again.

2010-06-10T07:36:00.000-07:00

Come visit my booth at the show this year!
49th ANNUAL TORONTO OUTDOOR ART EXHIBITON

JULY 9, 10 & 11, 2010
Nathan Phillips Square

Friday 10:30am-7:30pm

Saturday 10:30am-7:30pm

Sunday 10:30am-6:30pm

I will be located at
Booth # 803 in the Blue North Section

p.s. my Korean name would be on the catalogue, if you are lost...
so be aware that my name is also Soyeon Kim :D

Secret Garden

2010-05-28T08:33:00.001-07:00

Pen and Indian ink with watercolour on Japanese paper. The first box includes the figure and trees with two stripes of Mylar papers at the back. The second box includes acrylics on acetate paper and flowers painted with watercolour on Japanese paper and one Mylar paper strip placed on the centre of the background. The second box is lit with white, blue, green lights. The first and second box is encased with a larger box that has a hole in the circle, creating a moon. Strings outlining the box.

The outside box: 42x45x20cm

The first and second boxes that are encased: 36x36x8cm (each)
2010 April

Hide and Seek

2010-05-28T08:31:00.001-07:00

The structure is made with wooden sticks, tapes and brown strings. Three different textured Japanese papers are used, and stitched on wooden sticks. Painting is done with acrylics and Indian ink.
112x180cm
2010 April

Jane Weaving

2010-05-28T08:28:00.001-07:00

The figure is done with acrylic on rice paper. The birds are done with brown string on acetate paper. (all hung with fishing strings, that are attached to both top and bottom’s wooden panels) The trees are done with acrylics on canvas. The tree that is placed in front of the bird is done with acrylics on acetate paper. Yellowish dim lights are placed on diagonal of top and bottom’s panel, lighting the centre bird.
122x93x14cm
2010 March

Jane: "Come, follow me"

2010-05-28T08:24:00.000-07:00

For the figure, pen and Indian ink with watercolour on rice paper. For the trees and birds, brush and Indian ink on rice paper. Christmas lights for the boxed figure and trees.

For boxed figure and boxed trees: 135x225x60cm

For trees that are hung: 76x91cm

Birds: 35x25cm
2010 February

Jane III

2010-05-28T08:23:00.001-07:00

Pen and Indian ink with watercolor and stitching on rice paper. Acrylics on acetate papers for both sides. Hung with fishing strings in cardboard box. Two lights are attached on top and bottom. (Yellowish dim lights, very subtle) Strings outlining the box.
50x35x35cm
2009 November

2010-05-28T08:21:00.000-07:00

Pen and Indian ink with watercolour and stitching on rice paper. Acrylics on acetate papers for both sides. Hung with fishing strings in cardboard box. Two lights are attached on top and bottom. (Yellowish dim lights, very subtle) Strings outlining the box.
40x60x43cm
2009 December

Jane I

2010-05-28T08:06:00.000-07:00

Jane: "I let it go, but it still hurts..."

2010-05-26T14:12:00.001-07:00

Jane Hong is a girl who used to exist in the world of the living, but with her painful memories and events of her life, she traps herself in her state of mind. She is tired and disgusted with people’s lies and their loss of innocence. She strives to find a world, an ideal world, where innocence is uncorrupted and she feels like she belongs. In her world, she tries to cope with her struggles through expressive form. However, her stories are lost in space, while her memories still hunt her down, leaving her with nothing but emptiness.