Night Gallery and Various Small Fires (VSF), Seoul are delighted to present Color Fields, a two-person exhibition by New York-based Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola and Seoul-based Huh Myoungwook. This will be Akinbola’s first presentation in Korea, on view at VSF, Seoul.
These artists are united in their material explorations of the monochrome: Akinbola stitches together durags that are stretched atop wooden panels, while Myoungwook layers ottchil, a traditional Korean lacquer, on fabric. As they reference sartorial and painterly conventions from their respective communities, the pair expand the possibilities of a traditional, modernist form.
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Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola (b. 1991, Missouri) has had solo exhibitions at Sean Kelly, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Carbon 12, Dubai; John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan; the Queens Museum, New York, and other galleries and institutions. His work has been featured in group shows at the Guggenheim, New York, NY; Hauser & Wirth, New York and Los Angeles; Pace Gallery, New York; and the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, among others. Akinbola's work is included in the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection; The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; and Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. Akinbola lives and works in New York.
Huh Myoungwook (b. 1966, Korea) has had solo exhibitions at Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan; Gana Art locations across Korea; Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; SPACE B-E, Seoul, Korea; Boontheshop Cheongdam, Seoul, Korea; and other galleries and museums across Asia. He has participated in group exhibitions at Koo House Museum, Yangpyung, Korea; Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea; Art Chosun Space & Hori Art Space, Seoul, Korea; and other galleries in Korea and Japan. The artist lives and works in Seoul.