Photo of collection object Sunday Painting 12/20/10
Kim, Byron. Sunday Painting 12/20/10, 2010. Acrylic and gouache on canvas, mounted on panel, 14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm). Gift of the Contemporary Art Council in honor of Eugenie Tsai and Patrick Amsellem, 2011.37.4. © Byron Kim/ Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/SHANGHAI © artist or artist's estate.

Sunday Painting 12/20/10

2010

Byron Kim

American, born 1961

Contemporary Art

In the ongoing series Sunday Paintings, Byron Kim inscribes personal notes about his daily life onto his painted images of the sky. In nuanced hues of blue, each of the six examples shown here represents the sky on the Sunday it was painted. The words sit on the picture plane, creating a play between the painting as a flat surface and as a window opening onto the illusion of deep space. Lined up on a wall, the Sunday Paintings have a cinematic quality: each panel looks like a frame in a film sequence—a moment in time stilled—as if each is a part of a larger ongoing whole. While the works were created on Sundays, the title of this series also refers to amateurs known as “Sunday painters,” admired by Kim for the purity of their motives in making art.
Maker/Artist
Kim, Byron
Classification
Painting
Formatted Medium
Acrylic and gouache on canvas, mounted on panel
Dimensions
14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
Departments
Contemporary Art
Accession Number
2011.37.4
Credit Line
Gift of the Contemporary Art Council in honor of Eugenie Tsai and Patrick Amsellem
Rights Statement
© artist or artist's estate
Dominant Colors

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